November 12, 1997
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PAGE 34 - Commentary
Progressive ideals in education resurface every 20 to 30 years, capture the policy spotlight for a time, then fade.
PAGE 35 - Commentary
Very few of my colleagues at the public high school where I teach
noticed that the University of Chicago has decided to close its
venerable department of education, once home to John Dewey. And those
of us who did notice don't much care.
PAGE 48 - Commentary
More than a quarter-century ago, in 1970, the advisory committee for
science education of the National Science Foundation recommended that
both the education of scientists and that of citizens should be in a
social context. Since that time, there have been hundreds of reports
pointing to the need to reinvent school science education.
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