Changing Course: American Curriculum Reform in the 20th Century

by Herbert M. Kliebard

Book Overview

In Changing Course, Herbert Kliebard explores an array of efforts to reform the American curriculum. From revolutionary changes effected in a tiny one-room frontier schoolhouse in the late nineteenth century to a modern comprehensive high school, this accessible volume presents a chronological account of specific reform efforts--exposing factors likely to achieve success as well as the roots of many failures. Using a historical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 080774221X
• ISBN13: 9780807742211
• Release Date: April 2002
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.0"