REFORMING AMERICAN EDUCATION

by Alvin C. Eurich ‧ RELEASE DATE: March 26, 1969

Dr. Eurich was the head of the Ford Foundation's Fund for the Advancement of Education and his theory is case-routed. From the beginning he pleads for planned innovation, since new theories and practices will soon change American education. Often they are erratic and haphazard. Obviously study commissions dealing with the improvement of education are needed on the federal and state levels. ""Our schools are in a permanent state of emergency"" and remedial education is the only alternative to decay. Along the way to pressing the Heraclitian doctrine of the permanence of change. Dr. Eurich blocks out some specifics embodying some recent writs from Conant to Bruner: the student must learn at his own rate and for himself (the traditional student-teacher ratios are not inviolate); virtually anything may be taught at any age; methodology must not eclipse subject matter in teacher training (he does not, however, oppose content and method, opts, rather, for a synthesis). Throughout Dr. Eurich combines a theorist's overview with an awareness of current divergences and conflicts, although one wishes that the results of the Ford Foundation-backed New York City school decentralization plan, to which he cheerily refers, had been within the scope of this volume. Stimulating for all educators.

Pub Date: March 26, 1969

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Publisher: Harper & Row

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 1969

Categories: NONFICTION