Author: James Willis WestlakePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385490049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Common-school Literature, English and American. With Several Hundred Extracts to be Memorized
Author: James Willis WestlakePublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3385490049
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 162
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.
America's Public Schools
Author: William J. ReesePublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421401037
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped America’s public schools over the last two centuries. Reese approaches this subject along two main lines of inquiry—education as a means for reforming society and ongoing reform within the schools themselves. He explores the roots of contemporary educational policies and places modern battles over curriculum, pedagogy, race relations, and academic standards in historical perspective. A thoroughly revised epilogue outlines the significant challenges to public school education within the last five years. Reese analyzes the shortcomings of “No Child Left Behind” and the continued disjuncture between actual school performance and the expectations of government officials. He discusses the intrusive role of corporations, economic models for enticing better teacher performance, the continued impact of conservatism, and the growth of home schooling and charter schools. Informed by a breadth of historical scholarship and based squarely on primary sources, this volume remains the standard text for future teachers and scholars of education.
The Mentor Book of Major American Poets
Author: VariousPublisher: National Geographic Books
ISBN: 0451627911
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The voice of the nation rings out loud and clear in this unique anthology of great American poetry. Editors Oscar Williams and Edwin Honig concentrate on the work of 20 major American poets. They include sizable selections from the poetry of: • Wallace Stevens • Ralph Waldo Emerson • William Carlos Williams • Henry Wadsworth • Ezra Pound • Walt Whitman • Edgar Allen Poe • Emily Dickinson • Edna St. Vincent Millay • Stephen Crane • e. e. cummings • Robert Frost • Hart Crane • W. H. Auden • And more...
Pillars of the Republic
Author: Carl F. KaestlePublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 142993171X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Pillars of the Republic is a pioneering study of common-school development in the years before the Civil War. Public acceptance of state school systems, Kaestle argues, was encouraged by the people's commitment to republican government, by their trust in Protestant values, and by the development of capitalism. The author also examines the opposition to the Founding Fathers' educational ideas and shows what effects these had on our school system.
The Myth of the Common School
Author: Charles Leslie GlennPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
The United States Catalog
Author: Mary BurnhamPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1612
Book Description
The School Journal
Author: Literature and Ethics in High School English Classes
Author: Ross CollinPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350380512
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 145
Book Description
This book offers a defence of ethical reading in secondary school English classes at a time when reformers and policy makers are trying to reorganize English language arts around technical skills or politics. Ross Collin shows how students and teachers use literature as a venue for exploring their own and others' ethical ideas and practices and argues that moral inquiry in English class is a distinctly social endeavour. The book draws ideas from English education and moral philosophy. From English education, Collin explores social reading, or what Louise Rosenblatt named 'transaction', looking at texts commonly taught in secondary school English, including Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet and Jacqueline Woodson's Brown Girl Dreaming. From philosophy, he draws on arguments about moral vision and literature developed by Iris Murdoch, Martha Nussbaum, and Nora Hämäläinen, and develops ideas, tacit in English education, about reading with moral vision. He concludes by proposing a new theory of moral vision in transactional reading.
A Manual of American Literature
Author: John S. HartPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368194666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1873.
Author: