During the 1980s, there was a powerful movement for educational change and the nation's political institutions responded with aggressive reforms. In this volume, Chubb and Moe argue that these reforms are destined to fail because they do not get to the root of the problem.
Technology can revolutionize schools - if we let it. Imagine a cyber-school in an old steel mill where students from distant cities log in to learn. Or a Midwest charter school with state-of-the-art learning labs, where kids use laptops to manage their work. Here, learning happens across time zones, teachers are entrepreneurs, and innovation is ...
'Criticisms of Mancur Olson's theory of group membership and organizational behavior and discussions of the limits of his formulations are not new, but Terry Moe has set them forth in thoroughgoing fashion, has elaborated and extended them, and has made positive new contributions. The result is a book that is valuable and constructive, one that ...
Moes new book is not an argument for or against vouchers; it is an analysis of public opinion on vouchers that is likely to be very influential in shaping the movements future. Moe has written a nuanced and thoughtful treatise that goes beneath the notoriously unreliable single-shot question favored by the media: Do you favor or oppose school ...
The authors of this study present a first-hand look at school reform in Great Britain. They show how the landmark Education Reform Act of 1988 imposed a radically new institutional framework on British education - a framework built on the same types of reforms that American activists have been proposing for years: school-based management, choice ...
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Asher, Herbert B. (Co-Editor); Weisberg, Herbert F. (Co-Editor); Moe, Terry M.; Songer, Donald R.; Muller, Edward N.; Jukam,...
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Date Published: 1982
Description: Fine. No Jacket Issued. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Very nice copy; tight; NOT ex-library; very clean, crisp pages with no stamp, pencil or pen markings; cover has very mild wear. read more
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The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools
