Beyond the Boundaries of the Primary Grades: Kentucky's Radical Reform

Autor/in	Stallones, Jared
Titel	Beyond the Boundaries of the Primary Grades: Kentucky's Radical Reform
Quelle	In: American Educational History Journal, 47 (2020) 2, S.223-239 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1535-0584
Schlagwörter	Educational Change; Public Education; Primary Education; Nongraded Instructional Grouping; Educational History; Educational Innovation; Educational Finance; Educational Legislation; State Legislation; Program Termination; Kentucky + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Bildungsreform; Öffentliche Erziehung; Primarbereich; History of education; Bildungsgeschichte; Instructional innovation; Bildungsinnovation; Bildungsfonds; Bildungsrecht; Schulgesetz; Landesrecht
Abstract	The final decades of the twentieth century were rife with education reform. "A Nation at Risk" (1983) compared American schools to their counterparts in other countries, and found America wanting while E.D. Hirsch and others decried Americans' lack of knowledge of their own institutions and heritage (Hirsch 1987). These alarms caused many states to look at their own education systems with critical eyes. Kentucky was one of these states. While some states tinkered with education reform, Kentucky enacted sweeping changes to virtually every aspect of public education curriculum, governance, and finance. In the process, it pioneered a number of innovations. Perhaps the boldest move was reformatting early elementary education into ungraded classes that grouped students by ability and not by age. Although solidly anchored in research and supported by many school and community leaders, this reform did not last. This paper investigates the implementation of the reform and reasons for its demise. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2022/1/01