George S. Counts and American Civilization: The Educator As Social Theorist
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (562 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0865540918 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 184 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-14 |
| 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 test scores. And he emphasized that that was as it should be.My incomplete reading of Counts quickly disabused me of the n. Why American Education Is Crippled 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 selfishness, its reliance upon the forces of competition, its place of property above human rights, and its exaltation of