Title: Educating America : how Ralph W. Tyler taught America to teach /
Authors: Finder, Morris, 1917-
Publisher: Praeger,
Year: 2004
Subjects: Tyler, Ralph W.; Educators United States Biography; Education United States History
Abstract: "In his decades-long career at some of the nation's most prestigious universities, Ralph W. Tyler changed the course of American education. A strong proponent of local control of schools, he was convinced that nationwide tests and standards were unsuited to the diversity of communities across the country. His work reverberates today in our national discourse on public schooling and in the currency of his groundbreaking testing instrument, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which was developed to be informative but not necessarily prescriptive."