The Business of Reforming American Schools.

Intro -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF FIGURES -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE: 1895-1925 -- 1. The Tenor of the Times -- 2. The Pro-Efficiency Reforms Transplant Business Methods to the Schoolhouse -- 3. An Alternative Reform Agenda Education for Individual Development and Democracy -- PART TWO: CHALLENGES TO THE PRO-EFFIECIENCY MODEL OF EDUCATION 1961-1995 -- 4. The 1960s and the Challenge to the Schools -- 5. A Renewed Sense of Crisis and a New Management Model Spur Education Reform, 1983-1995 -- 6. The New Model for Efficient Education -- 7. Rochester, New York, a Laboratory for the New Pro-Efficiency Reforms -- 8. The Choices We Face -- NOTES -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Chapter 3 -- Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Y.

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