Let's kill Dick & Jane
Subtitle: how the Open Court Publishing Company fought the culture of American education
By: Harold Henderson
Publisher: St. Augustine's Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: South Bend, Ind
Language: eng
Number of pages: 161
ISBN-13: 9781587319198
Subjects: Social aspects; Educational publishing; Open Court Publishing Company; Publishing; Textbooks; Educational change; Bildungspolitik; History
Other titles: Let's kill Dick and Jane
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: What is the problem? (1900-1962); title: What should children do in school?; title: Ahead of its time : the beginnings of open court reading (1962-1967); title: Selling reform with guarantees (1966-1973); title: Trying to sell a principled program (1966-1973); title: Gaining credibility (1968-1974); title: Math : forward to thinking, not back to basics (1971-1984); title: Working bottom-up and top-down (1975-1985); title: Research, resistance, renewal (1978-1985); title: Selling reform by disguise : the move toward the middle (1983-1989); title: Counterfeit reform (1985-1988); title: Whole language and CYS (1987-1996).