"There were two groups of educators who were generally accepted and labeled by administrators as 'educational effic... http://tl.gd/885fjn
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"Our schools are, in a sense, factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into pr... http://tl.gd/885m0uanderscj
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"In July of 1911, for example, a month after Taylor's series of articles was completed in the American Magazine, a ... http://tl.gd/885uejanderscj
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"A major part of the effort to measure efficiency in the schools consisted of the attempts to rate teachers. In the... http://tl.gd/8866hhanderscj
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"Although some educators undoubtedly believed that the education of children would be improved through the introduc... http://tl.gd/886jc5anderscj
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"In the end, the American people got what they deserved for forcing their educators to spend their time on accounti... http://tl.gd/8879sjanderscj
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"But education, since it deals in the first place with organisms, and in the second place with individualities, is ... http://tl.gd/887f5oanderscj
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"If efficiency means the demoralization of the school system; dollars saved and human materials squandered; discont... http://tl.gd/887i0danderscj
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@chrislehmann I'm about 1/2 way through Education & the Cult of Efficiency and finding the book extremely depressing. A real tragedy.anderscj
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@anderscj There is some solace in the idea that we have been here before, though.
Chris Lehmann
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@chrislehmann my question is, did we ever really leave?anderscj
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@anderscj Completely leave? No way... but we ebb and flow.Chris Lehmann
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@dianeravitch I am wondering, why didn't you bring up Fredrick Taylor, Spaulding, or Bobbitt in Death & Life?anderscj
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@anderscj Taylorism is alive and well today. You are right. Wrote about them in "Left Back."
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