Teaching History Then and Now: A Story of Stability and Change in Schools
- ISBN-10
- 1612508871
- ISBN-13
- 9781612508870
- Category
- High school teaching
- Pages
- 264
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-03
- Author
- Larry Cuban
Description
In "Teaching History Then and Now," Larry Cuban explores the teaching of history in American high schools during the past half-century. Focusing on two high schools where he once taught Cleveland s Glenville High School and Washington DC s Cardozo High School Cuban augments his recollections of and research on the featured schools with a sweeping, nationwide account of the field. The result is exemplary education research, capturing the gritty facts of classroom practice and the larger currents of policy, institutional, and national change. "Teaching History Then and Now" takes us back into the classrooms where Cuban himself taught, in the 1950s and 1960s, then brings us into the same schools today. The result is both a memoir and a history, a tale of one educator s life and a meditation on what it means for the rest of us. Jonathan Zimmerman, professor of history of education, New York University, and author, "Too Hot to Handle" Cuban has done it again. He has looked deeply into an important topic in a way that both reads well and gets to some critically significant issues. Everyone from would-be or new teachers to policy makers needs to read this from cover to cover. Deborah Meier, author, "In Schools We Trust" With his deft touch for humanizing education history and drawing the links between policy and practice, Larry Cuban offers an intimate and immensely readable look at how history teaching has changed over the past half-century. Touching on everything from the New Social Studies to the role of technology, his deeply personal narrative explores what reform ultimately means for teachers and students. Frederick M. Hess, director of education policy studies, American Enterprise Institute Larry Cuban draws on his experience as a high school history teacher and educational historian to show how much impact fifty years of school reform have had on American schools. Returning to urban schools where he once taught, he finds that schools remain dynamically conservative organizations, where teachers continue to serve as gatekeepers for policy change and where the grammar of schooling remains strong. David F. Labaree, professor of education, Stanford University Larry Cuban is professor emeritus of education at Stanford University."
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- 2016-03-15
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- Harvard Education Press
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