Author: Baltimore (Md.). Board of School CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of School Commissioners to the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore for the Fiscal Year Ending ...
Author: Baltimore (Md.). Board of School CommissionersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Baltimore (Md.)
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Report
Author: The Ordinances of the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, Passed at the January Sessions, 1858(-1869). To which is Annexed the Mayor's Communication, Reports of City Officers (annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of Public Schools) and a List of the Members of the City Council and Officers of the Corporation
Author: 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.
History, Education, and the Schools
Author: William J. ReesePublisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230104827
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title. Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This book grapples with two basic questions. What is history? And How can history help illuminate contemporary concerns about the nature and character of America's schools? From antiquity to the postmodern present, history has served multiple purposes, including a basic human need to learn from what came before. Americans have long invested considerable time, energy, and emotion in their schools, both private and public, and a knowledge of history helps explain why.
Black Communities and Urban Development in America, 1720-1990: From Reconstruction to the Great Migration, 1877-1917 (2 v.)
Author: Kenneth L. KusmerPublisher:
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Category : African Americans
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTINS OF THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF BALTIMORE
Author: Baltimore (Md.)The American City
Author: Arthur Hastings GrantPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 608
Book Description
List of Educational Research Studies in City School Systems, 1931-1932
Author: Ruth A. GrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 74
Book Description
Author: