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The role of the president of the United States in regard to education changed significantly following the end of World War II. As the U.S. economy became more sophisticated and the country emerged as the dominant technological and world power, the demand for an educated work force increased. In this work, Maurice R. Berube offers the first comprehensive analysis of the involvement of American presidents in educational policy, tracing the effor...

Analysing the educational reform movements, this text shows how they have been shaped by outside forces: Progressive Education was an offshoot of the Progressive Movement, Equity Reform was influenced by the Civil Rights Movement, and Excellence Reform was a response to economic competition.

Maurice Berube, a New York educational consultant, surveys the urban universities' public policies - community relations, minority admissions, urban and black studies programs - while promoting the schools' possible larger social role. Regrettably, this well-written work has not been well thought out. Nowhere does Berube define the "urban America" he says constitutes the home for a majority of Americans, in actuality, only 15.6% of the populat...

In a landmark contribution to the education literature, Berube examines the political activities of the two teachers' unions--the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers AFL-CIO (AFT) during the last three decades. The first scholarly study of its kind, Teacher Politics argues that teachers' unions have become the most powerful political constituency in the nation. Through effective lobbying arms seeking fa...

Eminent Educators is the first book of its kind. Focusing on the four intellectual giants of the 20th century-John Dewey, Howard Gardner, Carol Gilligan, and John Ogbu-the book provides biographical information and analysis of their intellectual contributions. Each of these individuals caused a major paradigm shift in American education with their intellectual influence, and each, in their unique contribution indelibly shaped education for the...

Berube examines the political matrix of intellectual and cultural America. In a wide-ranging series of essays from the rise of the postmodern intellectual to a modernist appreciation of the spiritual quality of Jackson Pollock, Berube stakes out his claim that all areas of human endeavor are rooted in a politics of culture.

?In a well-researched study of the relationship between urban poverty and quality of education, the author has compared approaches to effective education among the urban poor in the United States, and students in Cuba.... His detailed discussion of the Cuban Literacy Campaign and of effective inner-city U.S. schools underscores the necessity of translating techniques that make the few succeed into strategies to benefit the many. Highly recomme...

Berube analyzes the three great educational reform movements in the United States. He shows how they have been shaped by outside societal forces: Progressive Education was an offshoot of the Progressive Movement, Equity Reform sought to complete the unfinished agenda of Progressive Education in educating the poor.

Education as a major social movement is coming to an end. The theoretical framework for this proposition derives from Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm shifts of major movements and Hegel's "end of history" thesis. The "end of school reform" thesis blends Arthur Danto's "end of art, " John Horgan's "end of science, " and Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" theses. Including interviews of education historians and policy professors, The End of Sc...

Education as a major social movement is coming to an end. The theoretical framework for this proposition derives from Thomas Kuhn's theory of paradigm shifts of major movements and Hegel's 'end of history' thesis. The 'end of school reform' thesis blends Arthur Danto's 'end of art', John Horgan's 'end of science', and Francis Fukuyama's 'end of history' theses. Including interviews of education historians and policy professors, The End of Scho...

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Berube (Old Dominion U.) traces the words and work of reformers and progressives from the Left to find if they actually had an influence on the development of American education. He starts with Dewey and Counts, which leads him to the development of teaching unions, then to the work of Aronowitz, Giroux, and Apple and those they influenced, finding

The Moral University examines the ways that universities act morally toward students, faculty, their communities and the nation. It considers the effectiveness of moral reasoning courses in the curriculum and the growth of leadership courses. The book deals with the myriad ways in which universities act positively toward their communities. It also examines the involvement of universities in national projects. Moreover, the Berubes examine how ...

The Moral University examines the ways that universities act morally toward students, faculty, their communities and the nation. It considers the effectiveness of moral reasoning courses in the curriculum and the growth of leadership courses. The book deals with the myriad ways in which universities act positively toward their communities. It also examines the involvement of universities in national projects. Moreover, the Berubes examine how ...