Author

Publication

2008-03-28 - Rowman & Littlefield Education

Language

English

Word Count

69,500 words, Guess

Page Count

278 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 4 more
  • OCLC Control Number190393741
  • Better World Books9781578867660
  • Better World BooksP8-BFH-795
  • Open LibraryOL12270249M

Classifications

  • LCCLA217.2 .E24 2008
  • LCCLA217.2.E24 2008

Description

"In A School by Every Other Name Edward S. Ebert II and Deborah Scott Studebaker suggest that the fundamental problem facing public education is that education is essentially an institution. The failure of school reform efforts to elevate public education in the United States to a preeminent position is due to the myth of educational reform, the mistaken belief that substantive changes actually occur. Yet how different is education today from what it was fifty, one hundred, even two hundred years ago? Reform has become a part of the survival mechanism that keeps the institution in business. A School by Every Other Name calls for a revolution that would reconceptualize the institution of education. That effort begins with overcoming our national cultural identity crisis. Rather than prescribing what must be done, A School by Every Other Name presents poignant perspectives and backgrounds and then invites the scholar to begin answering the questions that could lead to building a new institution of education. Not just a book about education, A School by Every Other Name is a workbook for beginning the dialogue toward systemic change in American schools."--Jacket.

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  • A School By Every Other Name: The Cultural Identity Crisis and Public EducationPaperbackRowman & Littlefield Education2008-03-28

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