The Troubled Crusade

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DIANEILWiTGH /,
This widely praised history of tKe controversies that have beset "American .schools and iiniversities since World War II is«ssential reading for anyone who wants to understand the condition of Anierican education tod^. i
"The right book at the right timé its insights on the issues American education.faces today are clear and cogent,"—Harold Howe II, former U.S, • Commissioner of Edtiçation
"The best book about American education within recent memory. It should be read by everyone, wiA an interest in education, and it should be re-, quired reading for all those i^w busily erigaged in reforming the schools;" •—i^LBERT SHANkER, Presidçnt;.Arherican Federation of T
"A superl) hook by a gifted historian wltó is also perhaps the sagest critic of , educational policy and practice writing today."—Chester E- FinK, JR.,
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'P' the fiiture, anyone trying tô understand^ the sometimes puzzling... Tovább

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DIANEILWiTGH /,
This widely praised history of tKe controversies that have beset "American .schools and iiniversities since World War II is«ssential reading for anyone who wants to understand the condition of Anierican education tod^. i
"The right book at the right timé its insights on the issues American education.faces today are clear and cogent,"—Harold Howe II, former U.S, • Commissioner of Edtiçation
"The best book about American education within recent memory. It should be read by everyone, wiA an interest in education, and it should be re-, quired reading for all those i^w busily erigaged in reforming the schools;" •—i^LBERT SHANkER, Presidçnt;.Arherican Federation of T
"A superl) hook by a gifted historian wltó is also perhaps the sagest critic of , educational policy and practice writing today."—Chester E- FinK, JR.,
, Wall Street Journal v V i- i,^ ' i . .
¦¦ • ¦¦¦ ' i' ¦''¦í^ív 'V'
'P' the fiiture, anyone trying tô understand^ the sometimes puzzling dévp'nt»-> ments in education in the '50s, '60s, and '70s will have to begin with tnis , book."—Ernest L. Boyer, President,-Carnegie Foundation for the Ad-j. vancement of Teaching v. . .
"An important book and a fascinating one. No other work that I know of deals with the great transformation'of American education in the years since . World War II so thoughtfully and ,judiciously>"-^SttePHAN^T .'Harvardyniversity . ¦
"Among thósé writing on éducation today, Diane Ravitch stands above the ¦ crowd."-T-PAViD SAyAGE, ?Oí/1/zgdei Ji'm Vissza