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Tinkering toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform.

David Tyack, +1 more
- 01 Jun 1996 - 
- Vol. 83, Iss: 1, pp 295-295
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In this paper, the authors learn from the past and look toward the future by re-learning the grammar of schooling and the history of the curriculum of public schools in the UK.
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Prologue: Learning from the Past 1. Progress or Regress? 2. Policy Cycles and Institutional Trends 3. How Schools Change Reforms 4. Why the Grammar of Schooling Persists 5. Reinventing Schooling Epilogue: Looking toward the Future Notes Acknowledgments Index

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