George S. Counts and American Civilization: The Educator As Social Theorist
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| Rating | : | 4.30 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865540918 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
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Book by Gerald Lee Gutek
no radical, he During the 1920's, George S. Counts got a reputation for being an American education policymaker with a determinedly radical bent. Yes, school reform was Counts' passion, but in the reading I did on Counts in graduate school he seemed anything but a radical. I still remember pondering a fairly complex graph showing the location of school-aged high school children in a one-city case study. Counts was quick to note that those who either dropped out or were in the most devalued curriculum had the lowest IQ . Why American Education Is Crippled Bruce Deitrick Price This book is a 170-page summation of the life and thoughts of one of our foremost educators, written by a loyalist. Why would you care? Because people like George Counts are prisms. You can understand a lot about American history during the 20th century by meeting him.My own first encounter with the eminent educator occurred in the New York Public Library 20 years ago. That's when I ran smack into his most famous statement. It's still jarring:"Historic capitalism, with its deification of the principle of