Title: Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Schools
Description: "The history of American education is rife with calls for school reform and efforts to turn so-called "failing" schools into "successful" ones. Cuban argues that, in the history of American education, standards of success and failure-as well as the reform efforts issuing from them-have been neither stable nor consistent"--
Subjects: Educational tests and measurements, Educational change, School management and organization, Educational accountability, Education and state, Academic achievement, Teaching