The Great Curriculum Debate
Subtitle: How Should We Teach Reading and Math?
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: January 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780815753100
Subjects: English language: reading skills; Mathematics; Philosophy of education; Teaching of a specific subject; Education; Education / Teaching; English; USA; Teaching Methods & Materials - Mathematics; Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading; Educational Policy & Reform; Curricula; Curriculum planning; Reading; United States
Description: Since the early twentieth century, American educators have been engaged in a heated debate over what schools shoudl teach and how they should teach it. The partisans--"education progressives" and "education traditionalists"--Have usually kept their disagreements within the walls of the nation's schools of education. Periodically, however, arguments have erupted that have generated headlines and attracted public attention, making clear the potential for bitterness and rancor in education politics. In the 1990s, progressives and traditionalists squared off in a dispute over reading and mathematics. Arguments over how best to teach these two subjects are detailed in this book. The book includes contributions from distinguished scholars from both sides of the debate, as well as influential nonpartisans.