Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Twitter Book Club: David Tyack & Larry Cuban's (1995) Tinkering Toward Utopia - Chapter 2

Chapter 2: Policy Cycles and Institutional Trends


"It is plausible to interpret most major trends as a gradual and more or less linear evolution, not as a series of ... http://tl.gd/afclptless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"The metaphor of the cycle induces a feeling of futility because the cycle returns to the same place, seemingly den... http://tl.gd/afcoghless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"From time to time, worries about society and schooling so accumulate that widespread educational reform ensues. In... http://tl.gd/afcq4hless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"Heavily influenced by their personal experience, aspirations, and anxieties, people have placed different weights ... http://tl.gd/afcsq5less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"It is not surprising that conservative political climates favored a rhetoric of competition and quality, while lib... http://tl.gd/afd1c7less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"In the United States, the educational policies of Republicans and Democrats have tended to move together in tandem... http://tl.gd/afd3r0less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"In 1972 George Gallup asked parents an open-ended question about why they wanted their children to be educated. Th... http://tl.gd/afde6aless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"They believed that schools could and should sort out and prepare students differently for their various destinies ... http://tl.gd/afdis3less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"This dialectic between capitalistic markets and democratic politics generated two basic alternative prescriptions ... http://tl.gd/afe11vless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"Other innovations, once deliberate reforms, became so pervasive that they were no longer seen as reforms and thus ... http://tl.gd/afe1ueless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"Blackboards, likewise, were once effusively praised as a magical new technology of learning." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"People with problems look for educational solutions; people with solutions look for problems; but implementation d... http://tl.gd/afe46aless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply

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