By exploring the tensions, impacts, and origins of major controversies relating to schooling and curricula since the early twentieth century, this insightful text illustrates how fear has played a key…

Two persistent dilemmas haunt school reform: curriculum politics and classroom constancy. Both undermined the 1960s’ new social studies, a dynamic reform movement centered on inquiry, issues, and social activism. Engagingly…

Harold O Rugg was professor at Teachers College, Columbia University, and a leader among the social frontier group that argued that schools should help to reconstruct society. This book discusses…

Provides educational leaders with a framework for hiring Generation Y teachers, developing appropriate instructional and professional development programmes, and successfully building a multigenerational, collaborative learning community.