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How teachers taught: constancy and change in American classrooms, 1890-1990
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ISBN: 0807732265 Year: 1993 Publisher: New York Teachers College

The Blackboard and the Bottom Line
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ISBN: 0674015231 0674025385 0674030095 9780674030091 9780674025387 9780674015234 0674263642 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge, MA

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"Ford Motor Company would not have survived the competition had it not been for an emphasis on results. We must view education the same way," the U.S. Secretary of Education declared in 2003. But is he right? In this provocative new book, Larry Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliché that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education. In this straight-talking book, one of the most distinguished scholars in education charts the Gilded Age beginnings of the influential view that American schools should be organized to meet the needs of American businesses, and run according to principles of cost-efficiency, bottom-line thinking, and customer satisfaction. Not only are schools by their nature not businesslike, Cuban argues, but the attempt to run them along business lines leads to dangerous over-standardization--of tests, and of goals for our children. Why should we think that there is such a thing as one best school? Is "college for all" achievable--or even desirable? Even if it were possible, do we really want schools to operate as bootcamps for a workforce? Cuban suggests that the best business-inspired improvement for American education would be more consistent and sustained on-the-job worker training, tailored for the job to be done, and business leaders' encouragement--and adoption--of an ethic of civic engagement and public service.

Oversold and underused
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ISBN: 0674030109 9780674030107 9780674011090 067400602X 0674011090 Year: 2001 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. Harvard University Press

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Many educators and parents argue that school computers and Internet access will improve learning and prepare students for an information-based workplace. This book contests that when teachers are not given a say in how the technology might reshape schools, computers have little impact.

How scolars trumped teachers : change without reform in university curriculum, teaching and research, 1890-1990
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ISBN: 0807738646 Year: 1999 Publisher: New York (N.Y.) : Teachers college press,

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Why is it so hard to get good schools?
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ISBN: 9780807742945 Year: 2003 Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press, Teachers College, Columbia University,

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Frogs into princes : writings on school reform
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ISBN: 9780807748596 0807748595 9780807748602 0807748609 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York : Teachers College Press,

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Technology, curriculum, and professional development : adapting schools to meet the needs of students with disabilities
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ISBN: 0761977422 0761977430 Year: 2001 Publisher: Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press,

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Tinkering toward utopia : a century of public school reform
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ISBN: 0674892828 0674892836 9780674892835 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. ; London Harvard University Press

Tinkering toward utopia : a century of public school reform
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ISBN: 0674044525 9780674044524 0674892828 9780674892828 0674892836 9780674892835 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press,

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Tinkering Toward Utopia documents the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea and the moderate pace of change in educational practices

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