Book Description
In his preface to this work, Henry Louis Gates Jr. writes, "If you want insight into what's right and what's wrong about the current debate over standards, you'd be well advised to start with the redoubtable Ralph Tyler." Finder's work is the first to chart the career of the man who developed the nation's report card, the National Assessment of Educational Progress. Ralph W. Tyler, one of the most influential educators of the 20th century, held strong and closely argued views on issues we debate today-- tracking, class size, and how the school can cope with the demands of the public.
Educating America: How Ralph W. Tyler Taught America to Teach FROM THE PUBLISHER
"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.
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