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Changing Course: American Curriculum Reform in the 20th Century » (1st Edition)

Authors: Herbert Kliebard
ISBN-13: 9780807742211, ISBN-10: 080774221X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Date Published: March 2002
Edition: 1st Edition

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: Reform and Change in the American Curriculum	1
1	Constructing the Concept of Curriculum on the Wisconsin Frontier: How School Restructuring Sustained a Pedagogical Revolution	7
2	"That Evil Genius of the Negro Race": Thomas Jesse Jones and Educational Reform	24
3	The Cardinal Principles Report as Archaeological Deposit	39
4	A Century of Growing Antagonism in High School-College Relations	50
5	Harold Rugg and the Reconstruction of the Social Studies Curriculum: The Treatment of the "Great War" in His Textbook Series	61
6	Fads, Fashions, and Rituals: The Instability of Curriculum Change	76
7	Cultural Literacy, or The Curate's Egg	91
8	One Kind of Excellence: Ensuring Academic Achievement at La Salle High School	107
9	Success and Failure in Educational Reform: Are There Historical "Lessons"?	126
	Notes	139
	Index	153
	About the Authors	163