Author: A. Harry PassowPublisher: Reston, Va. : National Association of Secondary School Principals
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
American Secondary Education--the Conant Influence
Author: A. Harry PassowPublisher: Reston, Va. : National Association of Secondary School Principals
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Education of American Teachers
Author: James Bryant ConantPublisher: New York : McGraw-Hill
ISBN:
Category : Teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: American Secondary Education
Author: William Marshall FrenchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education, Secondary
Languages : en
Pages : 706
Book Description
Scholarly Leadership in Higher Education
Author: Wayne J. UrbanPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350129291
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Urban provides an intellectual history of Harvard presidency of James Bryant Conant (1933-1953), situating it within the broader international landscape and drawing out the implication for the current state of higher education with reference to specific leadership policy issues in the sector. Throughout this volume, Urban explores the ways in which Conant achieved largely successful attempts to modernize Harvard by upgrading both its student body and its faculty. He explores the intellectual excellence agenda that Conant pursued both with students and academics, and the ramifications of this. He also considers the nature of Conant's part-time handling of the role of president, the way he delegated campus control to his Provost, Paul Buck, and the ways the two operated together and separately. Urban also looks at Conant's own intellectual breadth, as scientist and humanist, which showed itself prominently in his activities in pursuit of general education reform. Conant's combination of intellect and agenda was unusual for a president in his own time, and is exceedingly rare, if not completely missing, in contemporary university presidencies. In exploring this innovative president's time in office at Harvard, Urban offers pertinent ideas to today's leaders of higher education.
The Comprehensive High School
Author: James B. ConantThe Conant Controversy in Teacher Education
Author: Robert M. WeissPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Teachers
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
Progressive Pioneer
Author: William G. WragaPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820481166
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Alexander James Inglis's (1879-1924) transformation from an academic traditionalist devoted to Latin pedagogy to an influential progressive-experimentalist and advocate of the comprehensive high school has received insufficient attention from educational and curriculum historians. Inglis's career manifests important characteristics of the progressive era in American history. As an attempt to generate organizing principles upon which to construct a new, responsive social institution, his book, Principles of Secondary Education, stands as a quintessential manifestation of progressive values. This fine-grained profile of Inglis's work reveals nuances in the historic record that are otherwise obscured by high-level historical interpretations. An assessment of the utility of these interpretations for explaining Inglis's career leads to a discussion of the implications of the record of Inglis's work for understanding the progressive period and its prevailing interpretations, as well as to a consideration of the role of biography in historical research.
Understanding Curriculum
Author: William F. PinarPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9780820426013
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1170
Book Description
Perhaps not since Ralph Tyler's (1949) Basic Principles of Curriculum and Instruction has a book communicated the field as completely as Understanding Curriculum. From historical discourses to breaking developments in feminist, poststructuralist, and racial theory, including chapters on political theory, phenomenology, aesthetics, theology, international developments, and a lengthy chapter on institutional concerns, the American curriculum field is here. It will be an indispensable textbook for undergraduate and graduate courses alike.
College Counseling for Admissions Professionals
Author: Nathan J. Daun-BarnettPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136276807
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
College Counseling for Admissions Professionals is a much-needed resource to guide college admissions professionals in helping students navigate the college choice process. This research-based book prepares college admissions professionals to not only be marketers of their institution, but also disseminators of knowledge about the college choice process. Arguing that the most effective retention tool for an institution is to provide prospective students with the best possible information to choose the right institution, College Counseling for Admissions Professionals provides the full set of tools that every college admission professional needs today to ensure students applying to their institutions are making informed choices and will more likely achieve success while in college. Coverage Includes: The role of college access professionals—including school counselors, pre-college outreach providers, and independent consultants—and how to effectively work with these groups The shifts in financial aid at the federal, state, and institutional levels and the implications of these trends for students’ and families’ ability and willingness to pay for college The abundance of college access tools on the Internet and those that are most useful for students and families This volume empowers admissions counselors with the knowledge, insights, best practices, and resources to understand their role more broadly in order to better serve the needs of students, providing a solid foundation upon which to build their professional admissions career.