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The schools we deserve : reflections on the educational crises of our times
- Title
- The schools we deserve : reflections on the educational crises of our times / Diane Ravitch.
- Author
- Ravitch, Diane
- Publication
- New York, NY : Basic Books
- ©1985.
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Details
- Description
- ix, 337 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- Bringing together the noted educational commentator's major essays, this volume sets forth her views on key issues.
- Subject
- Education > Aims and objectives > United States
- Education > Standards > United States
- Education, Humanistic > United States
- Education and state > United States
- Minorities > Education > United States
- School integration > United States
- Education > Aims and objectives
- Education and state
- Education, Humanistic
- Education > Standards
- Minorities > Education
- School integration
- Éducation > Finalités > États-Unis
- Éducation > Normes > États-Unis
- Éducation humaniste > États-Unis
- Éducation et État > États-Unis
- Minorités > Éducation > États-Unis
- Intégration scolaire > États-Unis
- United States
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. 317-322.
- Contents
- Forgetting the questions: the problem of educational reform -- The schools we deserve -- The continuing crisis: fashions in education -- Bring literature and history back to elementary schools -- American education: has the pendulum swung once too often? -- Scapegoating the teachers -- The meaning of the new Coleman report -- From history to social studies: dilemmas and problems -- Curriculum in crisis: connections between past and present -- Is education really a federal issue? -- 60s education, 70s benefits -- The case of tuition tax credits -- The uses and misuses of tests -- On the history of minority group education in the United States -- Integration, segregation, pluralism -- Desegregation: varieties of meaning -- Color-blind or color-conscious? -- Politicization and the schools: the case of bilingual education -- A good school -- On thinking about the future -- Prospects.
- ISBN
- 0465072364
- 9780465072361
- 0465072348
- 9780465072347
- LCCN
- 84045303
- OCLC
- ocm11548866
- 11548866
- SCSB-8892128
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library