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The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education
Adam Laats
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Description for The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education
Hardcover. The idea that American education has been steered by progressivism is accepted as fact by liberals and conservatives alike. Adam Laats shows that this belief is wrong. Calling to center stage conservatives who shaped America's classrooms, he shows that in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has been a beleaguered dream. Num Pages: 294 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLW; JNB; JNF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 246 x 166 x 29. Weight in Grams: 640.
The idea that American education has been steered by progressive values is celebrated by liberals and deplored by conservatives, but both sides accept it as fact. Adam Laats shows that this widely held belief is simply wrong. Upending the standard narrative of American education as the product of courageous progressive reformers, he calls to center stage the conservative activists who decisively shaped America’s classrooms in the twentieth century. The Other School Reformers makes clear that, in the long march of American public education, progressive reform has more often been a beleaguered dream than an insuperable force.
Laats takes an ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674416710
SKU
V9780674416710
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About Adam Laats
Adam Laats is Associate Professor of Education and History, Binghamton University (State University of New York).
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The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education is the first comprehensive historical study of conservative educational activism in the United States… Laats makes a compelling argument that a powerful tradition of educational conservatism has played a decisive role in shaping American public schools and culture from the 1920s through the present… The Other School Reformers makes a vital ... Read more