Educating America

"In his decades-long career at some of the nation's most prestigious universities, Ralph W. Tyler changed the course of American education. A strong proponent of local control of schools, he was convinced that nationwide tests and standards were unsuited to the diversity of communities across the country. His work reverberates today in our national discourse on public schooling and in the currency of his groundbreaking testing instrument, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, which was developed to be informative but not necessarily prescriptive." "Morris Finder, a student of Tyler's while teaching school in Chicago, brings a insider's perspective to Tyler's work. Finder bases his work on extensive interviews with Tyler and those who worked with him, Tyler's letters to the author, and the many articles and books that Tyler wrote, making this an informed and knowledgeable view of an educator whose strong views and philosophy effect American schools to this day."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved