| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xiii, 317 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction: failed theories, famished minds : Continued education failure -- Growing social injustice -- Premature polarization -- From cultural literacy to core knowledge -- The nature of the enemy: ideas, not persons -- Intellectual capital : Shared knowledge in democracies -- Dependency of learning upon shared knowledge -- The myth of the existing curriculum -- Our migrant children -- International research on shared knowledge -- The new civil rights frontier -- An impregnable fortress : Orthodoxy masquerading as reform -- The pervasiveness of antiknowledge views -- Why America's universities are better than its schools -- Chatter and choice: yes, but what choice? -- An intellectual monopoly -- Critique of a Thoughtworld : Introduction -- Romanticism -- Developmentalism and other naturalistic fallacies -- American exceptionalism and localism -- What is higher-order thinking? -- Consensus research on pedagogy -- Reality's revenge: education and mainstream research : The virtues of mainstream research -- Selective use of research I: constructivism -- Selective use of research II: thinking skills -- The structure of real-world competency -- What is higher-order thinking? -- Consensus research on pedagogy -- Test evasion : Shooting the messenger -- Authenticity vs. fairness -- Overcoming the abuses -- Answering the charges -- The question of fairness -- Practical effectiveness, not ideology -- Two historic errors: formalism and naturalism -- Key findings of research -- Policy implications -- The common school and the common good. |
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Education -- United States -- Aims and objectives.
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Education -- United States -- Philosophy.
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Educational change -- United States.
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Education -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Added Title |
Schools we need & why we don't have them. |
| ISBN |
0385484577 |
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