Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 176
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4758-1700-3 • Hardback • June 2015 • $70.00 • (£54.00)
978-1-4758-1701-0 • Paperback • June 2015 • $36.00 • (£28.00)
978-1-4758-1702-7 • eBook • June 2015 • $34.00 • (£26.00)
Donald Parkerson is Distinguished Professor of Teaching in the History Department at East Carolina University. This is his fifth book focusing on the history of education with his colleague and coauthor, Jo Ann Parkerson.
Jo Ann Parkerson is professor emerita of education at Methodist University. She draws upon her extensive teaching background as coauthor of five books on educational history.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: The World We Have Lost
Chapter Two: Assessment, Bureaucracy and Consolidation
Chapter Three: Seizing the Schools: States and Municipalities Take Control
Chapter Four: The Consolidation Century
Chapter Five: Embracing the Corporate Model
Chapter Six: The Roots of Standardized Assessment
Chapter Seven: Testing in Schools
Chapter Eight: Problems in Corporate and School Bureaucracy
Chapter Nine: What have we Done?
Chapter Ten: What is to be Done?
References
Index