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Essay on Contemporary Educational Reform
American public education from its origin to the present has been contested political ground. Since the late nineteenth century, however, three evolving ideologies have emerged and became popular in this political ground. The first is the theme of improving standards. The second is that of expanding educational opportunity and increasing educational equality for individual citizen. The third is the progressive ideology in pedagogy.
Contemporary educational reform, which seems to be never ending, often places students in a difficult position. Frequently it's hard to know which “reforms are hostile to students truth” (Simpson, 2002), which are merely poorly conceived ideas, and which are actually worthwhile changes in the way we educate children? Many Americans are becoming cynical regarding educational reform. Every new innovation promises to revolutionize the classroom, and yet things seem to get progressively worse. The last decade has brought more sweeping reform to our schools than ever before, yet few seem to be convinced that “our elementary and secondary schools are performing as we would like them to.
Waves of reforms in American education, which have emphasized one or more of these themes, have gone back and forth repeatedly like a swinging pendulum. The education reform movement is related to trend in the association of work in two ways. First, innovative work association requires with new and different skills...............
