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Let's kill Dick & Jane : how the Open Court Publishing Company fought the culture of American education /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Henderson, Harold, 1948-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: South Bend, Ind. : St. Augustine's Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Textbooks > United States.
Textbooks > Publishing > Social aspects > United States.
Open Court Publishing Company > History.
Educational change > United States.
Educational publishing > United States.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • What is the problem? (1900-1962)
  • What should children do in school?
  • Ahead of its time : the beginnings of open court reading (1962-1967)
  • Selling reform with guarantees (1966-1973)
  • Trying to sell a principled program (1966-1973)
  • Gaining credibility (1968-1974)
  • Math : forward to thinking, not back to basics (1971-1984)
  • Working bottom-up and top-down (1975-1985)
  • Research, resistance, renewal (1978-1985)
  • Selling reform by disguise : the move toward the middle (1983-1989)
  • Counterfeit reform (1985-1988)
  • Whole language and CYS (1987-1996).