American Public School Librarianship
Title | American Public School Librarianship PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne A. Wiegand |
Publisher | Johns Hopkins University Press |
Pages | 400 |
Release | 2021-09-28 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9781421441504 |
Filling a huge void in the history of education, American Public School Librarianship provides essential background information to members of the nation's school library and educational communities who are charged with supervising and managing America's 80,000 public school libraries.
America's Public Schools
Title | America's Public Schools PDF eBook |
Author | William J. Reese |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 378 |
Release | 2011-04-01 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1421401037 |
In this update to his landmark publication, William J. Reese offers a comprehensive examination of the trends, theories, and practices that have shaped America’s public schools over the last two centuries. Reese approaches this subject along two main lines of inquiry—education as a means for reforming society and ongoing reform within the schools themselves. He explores the roots of contemporary educational policies and places modern battles over curriculum, pedagogy, race relations, and academic standards in historical perspective. A thoroughly revised epilogue outlines the significant challenges to public school education within the last five years. Reese analyzes the shortcomings of “No Child Left Behind” and the continued disjuncture between actual school performance and the expectations of government officials. He discusses the intrusive role of corporations, economic models for enticing better teacher performance, the continued impact of conservatism, and the growth of home schooling and charter schools. Informed by a breadth of historical scholarship and based squarely on primary sources, this volume remains the standard text for future teachers and scholars of education.
School
Title | School PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Mondale |
Publisher | Beacon Press |
Pages | 260 |
Release | 2002-08-16 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780807042212 |
Esteemed historians of education David Tyack, Carl Kaestle, Diane Ravitch, James Anderson, and Larry Cuban journey through history and across the nation to recapture the idealism of our education pioneers, Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann. We learn how, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education, and how in the 1950s public schools became a major battleground in the fight for equality for minorities and women. The debate rages on: Do today's reforms challenge our forebears' notion of a common school for all Americans? Or are they our only recourse today? This lavishly illustrated companion book to the acclaimed PBS documentary, School, is essential reading for anyone who cares about public education.
America's Public School Libraries, 1953-2000
Title | America's Public School Libraries, 1953-2000 PDF eBook |
Author | Joan Michie |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2005 |
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Whose America?
Title | Whose America? PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan Zimmerman |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 330 |
Release | 2005-11-30 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 9780674045446 |
What do America's children learn about American history, American values, and human decency? Who decides? In this absorbing book, Jonathan Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of conflict, compromise, and more conflict over the teaching of history and morality in twentieth-century America. In history, whose stories are told, and how? As Zimmerman reveals, multiculturalism began long ago. Starting in the 1920s, various immigrant groups--the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, even the newly arrived Eastern European Jews--urged school systems and textbook publishers to include their stories in the teaching of American history. The civil rights movement of the 1960s and '70s brought similar criticism of the white version of American history, and in the end, textbooks and curricula have offered a more inclusive account of American progress in freedom and justice. But moral and religious education, Zimmerman argues, will remain on much thornier ground. In battles over school prayer or sex education, each side argues from such deeply held beliefs that they rarely understand one another's reasoning, let alone find a middle ground for compromise. Here there have been no resolutions to calm the teaching of history. All the same, Zimmerman argues, the strong American tradition of pluralism has softened the edges of the most rigorous moral and religious absolutism.
Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools
Title | Model School Library Standards for California Public Schools PDF eBook |
Author | Faye Ong |
Publisher | |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2011 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN |
Provides vision for strong school library programs, including identification of the skills and knowledge essential for students to be information literate. Includes recommended baseline staffing, access, and resources for school library services at each grade level.
Part of Our Lives
Title | Part of Our Lives PDF eBook |
Author | Wayne A. Wiegand |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 345 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0190248009 |
Challenges conventional thinking and top-down definitions, instead drawing on the library user's perspective to argue that the public library's most important function is providing commonplace reading materials and public space. Challenges a professional ethos about public libraries and their responsibilities to fight censorship and defend intellectual freedom. Demonstrates that the American public library has been (with some notable exceptions) a place that welcomed newcomers, accepted diversity, and constructed community since the end of the 19th century. Shows how stories that cultural authorities have traditionally disparaged- i.e. books that are not "serious"- have often been transformative for public library users.