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Download full textFoley, Jean Ann – Critical Questions in Education, 2013
Although education has seen trends of progressive ideologies that promote student and teacher empowerment (Ayers, 2011; Lyons, Catallozzi, & Benson, 1998; Spring, 2008), the dominant educational discourse mirrors a business model of efficiency expressed by the social economist Lester Frank Ward (1872). Evidence of contemporary education…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Scores, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation
Direct linkTanner, Daniel – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2013
The USA was the first nation to attain universal secondary education through the creation of a unitary school structure capped by the uniquely American institution, the comprehensive or cosmopolitan high school. Other leading democratic nations adopted the comprehensive model, but not until well after mid-twentieth century. The modern movement for…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Federal Legislation, Educational Legislation, Charter Schools
