Book by Grubb, W. Norton, Lazerson, Marvin

Broken Promises: How Americans Fail Their Children

Politics & Social Sciences

Grubb, W. Norton

Lazerson, Marvin

Social Sciences

Univ of Chicago Pr

An Education of Value: The Purposes and Practices of Schools

An Education of Value is about the problems involved in reforming American schools - in the past and in the decades to come. The authors consider the historical, political, and philosophical tensions between the perennial twin goals of American education: equality and excellence. They discuss the necessary preconditions for enduring progress: enhancing the conditions of teaching, improving the education and re-education of teachers, rethinking the curriculum, developing learning through the use of computers, and strengthening the leadership of schools. The issues raised in this book concern every modern society, and the authors' ideas will challenge a wide audience.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

McPherson, Bruce

McLaughlin, Judith Block

Bailey, Stephen K.

Psychology & Counseling

Cambridge University Press

An Education of Value is about the problems involved in reforming American schools - in the past and in the decades to come. The authors consider the historical, political, and philosophical tensions between the perennial twin goals of American education: equality and excellence. They discuss the necessary preconditions for enduring progress: enhancing the conditions of teaching, improving the education and re-education of teachers, rethinking the curriculum, developing learning through the use of computers, and strengthening the leadership of schools. The issues raised in this book concern every modern society, and the authors' ideas will challenge a wide audience.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling

In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems--and that the central purpose of education is workplace preparation. 
 But do increasing levels of education accurately represent the demands of today's jobs? Grubb and Lazerson argue that the abilities developed in schools and universities and the competencies required in work are often mismatched--since many Americans are under-educated for serious work while at least a third are over-educated for the jobs they hold. The ongoing race for personal advancement and the focus on worker preparation have squeezed out civic education and learning for its own sake. Paradoxically, the focus on schooling as a mechanism of equity has reinforced social inequality. The challenge now, the authors show, is to create environments for learning that incorporate both economic and civic goals, and to prevent the further descent of education into a preoccupation with narrow work skills and empty credentials.

Religion & Spirituality

Christian Books & Bibles

Harvard University Press

Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870–1915 (Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University)

Sociology

About the Author\nMarvin Lazerson is the Howard P. and Judith R. Berkowitz Professor at the Graduate School of Education at the University of Pennsylvania.

Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870-1915

Book by Lazerson, Marvin, Grubb, W. Norton

American Education and Vocationalism: A Documentary History 1870-1970

Teachers College Pr

This monograph - which was very well received when originally published in France - contains a great deal of detailed information about the attitudes towards learning and written culture among members of the nobility in different parts of Europe in the Middle Ages. An encounter between a warring knight and the world of learning could seem a paradox. It is nonetheless related with the Twelfth-Century Renaissance, an essential intellectual movement for western history. Knights not only fought in battles, but also moved in sophisticated courts. Knights were interested on Latin classics and reading, and writing poetry. Supportive of "jongleurs" and minstrels, they enjoyed literary conversations with clerics who would attempt to reform their behaviour, which was often brutal. These lettered warriors, while improving their culture, learned to repress their own violence and were initiated to courtesy: selective language, measured gestures, elegance in dress, and manners at the table. Their association with women, who were often learned, became more gallant. A revolution of thought occurred among lay elites who, in contact with clergy, began to use their weapons for common welfare.This new conduct was a tangible sign of Medievalist society's leap forward towards modernity.

Higher Education and the American Dream

History

Americas

Central European University Press

A readable, cogent explanation of how the U.S. can have the best system of higher education in the world, but also a system that seems to be coming apart at the seams.

Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and Its Discontents

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Broken Promises: How Americans Fail Their Children

An Education of Value: The Purposes and Practices of Schools

An Education of Value: The Purposes and Practices of Schools

The Education Gospel: The Economic Power of Schooling

Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870–1915 (Publications of the Joint Center for Urban Studies of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University)

Origins of the Urban School: Public Education in Massachusetts, 1870-1915

American Education and Vocationalism: A Documentary History 1870-1970

An Education of Value: The Purposes and Practices of Schools

Higher Education and the American Dream

Higher Education and the American Dream: Success and Its Discontents