The Stone Trumpet

List of Photographs and Photographic Essays

Foreword

Acknowledgments

1. Taking Reform Seriously: The Anger and the Tears

The Anti-reform Social Environment

the Anti-reform Educational Environment

2. Judging the Worth of Reform: A Deweyan-Progressive Perspective

Two Basic Concepts Used in This Analysis

The Intellectual and Democratic Criterion

The Technological Criterion

Three Decades of Reform

Representative Reforms 1950-1990

Overview of Reform in the 1950s

3. Reform's Green Fields

The New Mathematics and the New Science

The Trump High School

The Open Classroom

Nongraded Schools and Team Teaching

The Coalition of Essential Schools

The Paideia Proposal: A Summary

A National Prepared: A Summary

Concluding Comment on Reform's Green Fields

4. Reforms As Technology: How Technique Displaces Thought

The Promise and the Failure of Federally Funded Remedial Programs in Reading and Arithmetic

Concluding Comment on Remedial Programs

Mastery Learning Chicago Style

Concluding Comment on Mastery Learning

A Critical Review of the Research

Scientific Blues: M. Hunger's Teaching Model and the Research on Effective Teaching

What it All Means

Concluding Comment on the Hunger Model and the Research on Effective Teaching

Technological Curriculums: Moving Backward into the Future

5. How Teachers' and Principals' Ideas Defined the Quality of a Major Reform

The Real Stuff? Individually Guided Education in Adopting Schools

Individually Guided Education in Three Traditional Schools: What Does it Mean?

Individually Guided Education in a Progressive School

Hoes Does IGE Influence a Progressive School?

Flowing Brook: A School without Laughter

How Good is Individually Guided Education as a Reform?

6. Like a Tree Planted by Water

Rain in Sunny California: Five Inferences about Reform

What to Do about Reform Gridlock

The Structure of the Dialogue

The Dialogue's Dynamic Qualities: Gladwyne Elementary School

The Doxology



Appendixes

A. Toward a More Thoughtful School: Twenty-one Deweyan Criteria

B. General Comment

"In this Land of Dolts . . . " Competency-Based Education

Individually Prescribed Instruction in Reading and Arithmetic

Thinking Skills: CoRT and Instrument Enrichment

C. General Comment

Performance Contracting: The Psychological-Industrial Complex

The Enfeebled Research-Development-Diffusion Model

The Effective Schools Research

Assertive Discipline

Accountability and State Testing Programs

Aligning the Curriculum to the Test

Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index