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The Long Crusade: Profiles in Education Reform, 1967-2014

The Long Crusade: Profiles in Education Reform, 1967-2014

Wolters, Raymond

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General EducationGeneral World History

ISBN10: 1593680414
ISBN13: 9781593680411
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Aug 28 2015
Pages: 612
Weight: 1.78
Height: 1.24 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Ever since the 1954 *Brown v. Board of Education* decision, which launched a national effort to desegregate American schools, education reform has been one of the most resonant, controversial, and perplexing social and political issues. In *The Long Crusade*, Raymond Wolters traces the history of the past half-century of school reform by telling the stories of its most influential writers, activists, and intellectual movements. These range from the neo-progressives (Jonathan Kozol, Howard Gardner, and Theodore Sizer) to back to basics reformers (Chris Whittle, Robert Slavin, and E. D. Hirsch) to contemporary advocates of accountability (Teach For America, Michelle Rhee, and Arne Duncan). Wolters concludes by profiling contrarians (Diane Ravitch, Robert Weissberg, and the race realists), who brought into question many of the orthodoxies of this period. America's educational crusades have been varied, but virtually all have shared a common fate: racial achievement gaps have never been closed. Wolters argues that these failures are not merely a result of bad policies. Underlying virtually all of these approaches has been the assumption that no innate cognitive differences exist between races. Wolters stresses that it is time to rethink what has been assumed-and to look with new eyes on the failures and achievements of the American educational system.

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