Wednesday, June 15, 2011

Twitter Book Club: David Tyack & Larry Cuban's (1995) Tinkering Toward Utopia - Chapter 4

Chapter 4: Why the Grammar of Schooling Persists


"The basic grammar of schooling, like the shape of classrooms, has remained remarkably stable over the decades. Lit... http://tl.gd/ahf02sless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"Neither the grammar of schooling nor the grammar of speech needs to be consciously understood to operate smoothly." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"The grammar of schooling is a product of history, not some primordial creation. It results from the efforts of gro... http://tl.gd/ahf315less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"Habitual institutional patterns can be labor-saving devices, ways to organize complex duties. Teachers and student... http://tl.gd/ahf4huless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"The standard grammar of schooling has proven remarkably durable." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"The one-room country school was nongraded, a place where students of different ages learned together and often tau... http://tl.gd/ahf8eiless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"Many advocates of the graded school, prominent among them city and state superintendents and school board leaders,... http://tl.gd/ahfaduless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"Critics of the Carnegie unit argued that it had frozen schedules, separated knowledge into discrete boxes, and cre... http://tl.gd/ahfhp8less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"The Dalton Plan was only one episode in a long series of efforts to correct the defects of the graded school." Tyack & Cubanless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"Teachers were expected to negotiate the contracts, stock the laboratory with learning materials needed to fulfill ... http://tl.gd/ahfllcless than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"Lawrence A. Cremin has observed that progressive education declined in part because leaders lost some of their pol... http://tl.gd/ahgth8less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply



"in a democracy, fundamental reforms that seek to alter the cultural constructions of a 'real school' cannot succee... http://tl.gd/ahguf2less than a minute ago via Twittelator Favorite Retweet Reply

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