Inside the black box of classroom practice : change without reform in American education / Larry Cuban.
2013
LB2806.22 .C82 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
Inside the black box of classroom practice : change without reform in American education / Larry Cuban.
Author
Cuban, Larry.
ISBN
9781612505565 paperback
1612505562 paperback
9781612505572 library binding
1612505570 library binding
1612505562 paperback
9781612505572 library binding
1612505570 library binding
Publication Details
Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, 2013.
Language
English
Description
x, 243 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Call Number
LB2806.22 .C82 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
371.1020973
Summary
"Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice takes as its starting point a strikingly blunt question: "With so many major structural changes in U.S. public schools over the past century, why have classroom practices been largely stable, with a modest blending of new and old teaching practices, leaving contemporary classroom lessons familiar to earlier generations of school-goers?" It is a question that ought to be of paramount interest to all who are interested in school reform in the United States. It is also a question that comes naturally to Larry Cuban, whose much-admired books have focused on various aspects of school reform--their promises, wrong turns, partial successes, and troubling failures. In this book, he returns to this territory, but trains his focus on the still baffling fact that policy reforms--no matter how ambitious or determined--have generally had little effect on classroom conduct and practice." -- Publisher's website.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-227) and index.
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Table of Contents
Part 1: Engineering structures to reform classroom teaching. Restructuring Las Montanas and technology, 1976-2010 ; Restructuring the science curriculum, 1890s-2011 ; How and why test-driven accountability influenced teaching practice
Part 2: Changes in medical practice and classroom teaching. Structural changes and the reform of medical practice ; Structural changes and reforming teaching practices
Part 3: Unlocking the black box of the classroom. Why so many structural changes in schools and so little reform in teaching practice?
Part 2: Changes in medical practice and classroom teaching. Structural changes and the reform of medical practice ; Structural changes and reforming teaching practices
Part 3: Unlocking the black box of the classroom. Why so many structural changes in schools and so little reform in teaching practice?