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Conservatives and the History of School Reform

Adam Laats, The Other Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015)   Review by Mike WakefordWith The Other School Reformers: Conservative Activism in American Education online pharmacy valtrex for sale with best prices today in the USA , Adam Laats advances the intellectual histories of American school reform and the modern conservative movement. Organized around case studies of four schooling-centered controversies, Laats’ book identifies a strain of reformism that he calls “educational conservatism” and tracks it from the 1920s through the 1970s. Challenging scholarship that ascribes the prevailing traditionalism of American education to institutional inertia, Laats Read more

What I Would Say

For various reasons, my on-campus errands this past week have repeatedly put me in the path of a demographic I don’t usually encounter in the run-up to the new school Read more

The Stanford Legacy

Two recent news articles I read online and one piece of snail-mail I received from the Office of Admissions at Stanford University have brought home to me, quite literally, the Read more