Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling
Allure of Order: High Hopes, Dashed Expectations, and the Troubled Quest to Remake American Schooling
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Author(s): Mehta, Jal
ISBN No.: 9780199323777
Pages: 416
Year: 201304
Format: E-Book
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In The Allure of Order, Mehta recounts a century of attempts at revitalizing public education, and puts forward a truly new agenda to reach this elusive goal. Over and over again, outsiders have been fascinated by the promise of scientific management and have attempted to apply principles of rational administration from above. What we want, Mehta argues, is the opposite approach which characterizes top-performing educational nations: attract strong candidates into teaching, develop relevant and usable knowledge, train teachers extensively in that knowledge, and support these efforts through a strong welfare state.


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