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Title The New servants of power : a critique of the 1980s school reform movement / edited by Christine M. Shea, Ernest Kahane and Peter Sola ; foreword by Maxine Greene.

Publication Info. New York : Greenwood Press, 1989.

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 Moore Stacks  LA217 .N47 1989    Available  ---
Description xiii, 203 pages ; 25 cm.
Series Contributions to the study of education, 0196-707X ; no. 28
Contributions to the study of education ; no. 28.
Bibliography Bibliography: pages 177-195.
Note Includes index.
Contents An introductory overview of the 1980s school reform debate. Pentagon vs. multinational capitalism : the political economy of the 1980s school reform movement / Christine M. Shea -- A critique of the concept of work in the school reform literature. A critique of the concept of work and education in the school reform reports / Don T. Martin -- The state's stake in educational reform / Edward H. Berman -- Where computers are taking us in the education field / Ernest Kahane and Andrew D. Oram -- The corporate community on the ideal business-school alliance : a historical and ethical critique / Peter Sola -- Education reform and "the new equity". The bootstrap ideology of educational reform : what the recent reports say about the current and future status of blacks in higher education / Beverly M. Gordon -- More of the same : reforms of American public schooling and the minority language student / Timothy Reagan -- The eighties image of girls and women in the educational reform literature : a review of the issues / Kathryn M. Borman and Patricia O'Reilly -- The new equity : competing visions / William T. Pink.
(Cont.) School reform proposals for "the new curriculum". Civic education reform and the quest for a unified society : a critique of R. Freeman Butts's agenda for civic learning / Stuart A. McAninch -- An evaluation of the aims and curriculum proposals in Sizer's Horace's Compromise / John Martin Rich and Joseph L. DeVitis -- Is continuing education anything more than a yuppie phenomenon? / Paul C. Violas -- Teachers, their world, and their work : a review of the idea of "professional excellence" in school reform reports / Richard J. Altenbaugh.
Subject Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States.
Education -- Aims and objectives.
United States.
Public schools -- United States -- Evaluation.
Public schools.
Evaluation.
Educational equalization -- United States.
Educational equalization.
Indexed Term United States Education Reform
Subject Écoles publiques -- États-Unis -- Évaluation.
Démocratisation de l'enseignement -- États-Unis.
Éducation -- Finalités -- États-Unis.
Added Author Shea, Christine Mary, 1945-
Kahane, Ernest.
Sola, Peter Andre, 1940-
Added Title School reform movement
ISBN 0313254753 library binding alkaline paper