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America’s Public Schools: From the Common School to “No Child Left Behind”
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William J. Reese’s history of public schools in America examines why citizens have repeatedly turned to the schools to improve society and how successive generations of reformers have tried to alter the curriculum and teaching practice to achieve their goals. Organized around two themes — education as the means for reforming American society and ongoing reform within the schools themselves — this study examines two centuries of American public education. It explor… More >>
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When Mayors Take Charge: School Governance in the City
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Large urban school systems have been the weakest link in American education, driving middle-class families into the suburbs while contributing mightily to the racial learning gap. Activist mayors in several major cities have responded by taking control of their public schools. “When Mayors Take Charge” is the most up-to-date assessment available on this phenomenon. It brings together the topic’s leading experts to analyze the factors and people driving the trend, it… More >>
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Hearings on Veterans’ Administration education, training, and rehabilitation programs–Los Angeles, California: Hearing before the Subcommittee on Education, … first session, April 27 and 28, 1979
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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library’s large-scale digitization efforts. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the original text that can be both accessed online and used to create new print copies. The Library also understands and values the us… More >>