Clio at the Table: Using History to Inform and Improve Education Policy

Instructors and researchers mostly in education but also in history look at the history of schools and of education reform in the US as a guide to current and future education policy at levels from the national to the district. Among the discussions are black high school students in the metropolitan north 1940-80, growing state intervention in low-performing schools, equity and special education in Boston, standards-based reform, and why historians and policy makers miscommunicate on urban education. Annotation 穢2009 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)