Title
Campus Units
Education, School of
Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Version
Published Version
Publication Date
2006
Journal or Book Title
Encyclopedia of educational leadership and administration
Volume
2
First Page
856
Last Page
860
Abstract
The call to reform K- 12 public schools has been an enduring movement in the United States since the 1850s, when Horace Mann helped establish common schools in Massachusetts. School reform is characterized by cycles of what educational historians have termed progress and regress. One day schools are the best vehicle for the nation's overall progress toward a well-educated citizenry. In the next period, their failure is predicating the downfall of the nation's future. Reform tends to occur when the public is convinced that schools are regressing and something must be done to fix them, but at the heart of such pessimism is an inherent progressive ideal that schools can be fixed and that fixing them will indeed lead to a better nation.
Copyright Owner
Sage Publications, Inc.
Copyright Date
2006
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Marshall, Joanne M., "Reform, of Schools" (2006). Education Publications. 70.
https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/edu_pubs/70
Included in
Curriculum and Social Inquiry Commons, Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research Commons, Elementary Education and Teaching Commons
Comments
This is a chapter from Marshall, J. M. (2006). Reform, of Schools. In F. English (Ed.), Encyclopedia of educational leadership and administration (Vol. 2, pp. 856-860). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage. For more information, click here. Posted with permission.