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Synopsis
The American school curriculum is controversial. Throughout the twentieth century, educators argued about what schools should teach and how they should teach it. At the end of the century, the debate focused on reading and mathematics. This book is about the public conflict that surrounded the two subjects in the 1990s. It includes contributions from influential scholars on both sides of the debates, as well as chapters by distinguished nonpartisans. It examines what fueled the controversies, clarifies adversarial positions, analyzes the politics of the disputes, and investigates how curricular conflicts may have affected policy and practice.
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Fourteen leading American scholars contribute to this collection of 14 papers presented at an October 1999 conference held in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and organized by the Program on Education Policy and Governance at Harvard U. Coverage includes background information on the roots of today's public educational debates over what schools should teach and how they should teach it, various perspectives on the teaching of math and the teaching of reading, political aspects of contemporary disputes, and the results of recent efforts to reform the classroom. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)