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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.

The managerial imperative and the practice of leadership in schools
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ISBN: 1438400136 0585075778 9780585075778 0887065945 9780887065941 0887065937 9780887065934 9781438400136 Year: 1988 Publisher: Albany State University of New York Press


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The flight of a butterfly or the path of a bullet? : using technology to transform teaching and learning.
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ISBN: 9781682531372 1682531376 9781682531389 1682531384 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge Harvard Education Press

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Larry Cuban returns with fresh energy and insight to one of his perennial topics: the uses and effects of digital technologies in K-12 classrooms. Cuban has an extensive track record as a skeptic about the educational consequences of those technologies. In this book, he returns to this topic by exploring the uses of these technologies in notably ambitious classrooms, all of them in schools in the heart of Silicon Valley. The book looks carefully at 41 classrooms in all, located in twelve schools in six different districts. All have devoted special attention and resources to integrating digital technologies in their education practices. Cuban observed all of these classrooms and interviewed all of the teachers in an effort to answer several straightforward, if also elusive, questions: has technology integration been fully implemented and put into practice in these classrooms? And has this integration and implementation resulted in altered teaching practices? Ultimately, Cuban asks if the use of digital technologies has resulted in transformed teaching and learning in these classrooms. The answers to these questions reflect both Cuban's nuanced understanding not only of digital technologies and their uses, but of the complex interrelations of policy and practice, and of the many, often unintended, consequences of reforms and initiatives in the education world. Similarly, his answers reflect his subtle understanding of change and continuity in education practice, and of the varying ways in which different actors in the education world--policy makers, school leaders, teachers, and others--understand, and sometimes misinterpret, those changes. --

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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Why is it so hard to get good schools
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ISBN: 0807742945 Year: 2002 Publisher: New York (N.Y.): Teachers college press

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