Author: Boston (Mass.). School CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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Annual Report of the School Committee of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). School CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Documents of the School Committee of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). School CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1360
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The Relation of the State to Religious Education in Massachusetts
Author: Sherman Merritt SmithPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education and state
Languages : en
Pages : 370
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Testing Wars in the Public Schools
Author: William J. ReesePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075692
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern public school system. William J. Reese offers a richly detailed history of an educational revolution that has so far been only partially told. Single-classroom schools were the norm throughout the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century. Pupils demonstrated their knowledge by rote recitation of lessons and were often assessed according to criteria of behavior and discipline having little to do with academics. Convinced of the inadequacy of this system, the reformer Horace Mann and allies on the Boston School Committee crafted America's first major written exam and administered it as a surprise in local schools in 1845. The embarrassingly poor results became front-page news and led to the first serious consideration of tests as a useful pedagogic tool and objective measure of student achievement. A generation after Mann's experiment, testing had become widespread. Despite critics' ongoing claims that exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children's health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. Testing Wars in the Public Schools puts contemporary battles over scholastic standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the historic successes and limitations of the pencil-and-paper exam.
Circular
Author: Bulletin of the New York Public Library
Author: New York Public LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 550
Book Description
Includes its Report, 1896-19 .
Proceedings of the School Committee of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). School CommitteePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
The New England Bibliopolist, Or Notices of Books on American History, Biography, Genealogy, Etc
Author: Reconstructing American Education
Author: Michael B. KatzPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674750937
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
"...A powerful interpretation of the uses of history in educational reform and of the relations among democracy, education, and the capitalist state. How did the American education take shape? What can a historian say about recent criticisms and proposals for improvement? What drives the politics of educational history? Katz shows how the reconstruction of America's educational past can be used as a framework for thinking about current reform."--Back cover.
Documents of the City of Boston
Author: Boston (Mass.). City CouncilPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 1592
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