Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
Educational Review ...
Author: Educational Review
Author: Nicholas Murray ButlerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Border Crossings
Author: Kerry AlcornPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773590048
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
At the dawn of the last century a shift in direction emerged among education policy-makers in Saskatchewan. Prior to 1905, the territories that would become Saskatchewan and Alberta maintained a school system largely modelled after Ontario's British-inspired system. Between 1905 and 1937 however, the shared geography and culture of the continental plains that span the border between the United States and Canada became the primary influence on education in the Canadian prairies. In Border Crossings, Kerry Alcorn examines Saskatchewan's embrace of the culture of farmer revolt and populist and progressive democratic thought that originated south of the border. He argues that as a consequence Saskatchewan education developed in resistance to eastern Canadian forms, with education policy makers - some brought in from the United States - consciously looking to their southern neighbours for direction in developing educational models. Alcorn's detailed portrait of University of Saskatchewan president Walter C. Murray and his "Wisconsin Idea," further highlight the influence of the north-south axis. A challenge to standard histories of Canadian education, Border Crossings encapsulates the development of the meaning, practice, and language of Saskatchewan education in the early twentieth century.
Making the Grade
Author: William A. FischelPublisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226251314
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
A significant factor for many people deciding where to live is the quality of the local school district, with superior schools creating a price premium for housing. The result is a “race to the top,” as all school districts attempt to improve their performance in order to attract homebuyers. Given the importance of school districts to the daily lives of children and families, it is surprising that their evolution has not received much attention. In this provocative book, William Fischel argues that the historical development of school districts reflects Americans’ desire to make their communities attractive to outsiders. The result has been a standardized, interchangeable system of education not overly demanding for either students or teachers, one that involved parents and local voters in its governance and finance. Innovative in its focus on bottom-up processes generated by individual behaviors rather than top-down decisions by bureaucrats, Making the Grade provides a new perspective on education reform that emphasizes how public schools form the basis for the localized social capital in American towns and cities.
Annual Bulletin ...
Author: Publications of the Department of Social Ethics in Harvard University
Author: Harvard University. Department of Social EthicsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Best books
Languages : en
Pages : 288
Book Description
Resources in Education
Author: A Guide to Reading in Social Ethics and Allied Subjects
Author: Harvard UniversityPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Bulletin of the Pratt Institute Free Library
Author: Pratt Institute. Free LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal)
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Co-operative Bulletin
Author: Pratt Institute. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description