Product Description: Never before has the hot seat for educational leaders reached such scorching temperatures. Even in a world marked by jarring change over fiercely compact time frames, one constant will not soon change: outcomes accountability. Too often, instructional leaders frantically sprint to a desired achievement end with only shallow plotting of the improvement course...read more

Product Description: This volume provides a comprehensive and balanced survey of the state of American public education. It examines the trend in the quality of the public schools over the past 100 years, and reviews the possible reasons for a decline in quality...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In the sociocultural turmoil of the late 1960s, a movement emerged to create alternatives to conventional schooling and democratize public education through parental choice in schooling. This first detailed history of the public alternative schools movement reveals its links to progressive education theory and practice, describes the influences of humanistic psychology and Sixties Era radical critique on early alternative educators, and explains the movement’s impact on the educational system...read more

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Urban presents the NEA in its historical context, turning a fair and clear eye on this powerful and controversial organization, and using this context to both criticize and commend. The culmination of a three decade long study, this unique volume presents an unusually thorough and much needed holistic view of the NEA. (view table of contents)

Examines the problems with today's schools, explains how school reform has failed, and discusses the flaws in standardized testing (view table of contents)

The education expert explores the last one hundred years of dubious reform programs designed to radically improve American schools, arguing that reformers often lose sight of the primary goal of the education system. (view table of contents)

Product Description: First published in 1989

Product Description: ^R Explores the educational and societal experiences of the 20th century American immigrant by using the situation of the Jewish immigrant as a case study. Approaches such questions as: Did the schools promote or hinder immigrants' quest for the American Dream? Was, and is, the melting pot a myth or reality? and, Are there prices to pay for the American Dream...read more

Discusses the impact of the Depression on the American public school system

The impact of post-World War II foreign policy on the development of the national and social uses of American education is examined