The "Golden Age" of American Education?

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The "Golden Age" of American Education?

Listen Thursday, Aug. 27, 2009 at 1:06 p.m. in Education, Politics, Society

What role should the federal government play in local school systems? How should teachers be assessed and compensated? Are we teaching kids what they need to succeed in life as adults? Today, education reformers are grappling with difficult, ideologically charged questions. But these debates have deep historical roots. We examine the great historical debates in American education and the myths some say they've perpetuated about American schools.

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Tom Loveless

Senior Fellow, Governance Studies, Brookings Institution

Jonathan Zimmerman

Professor of Education and History, Director of the History of Education Program, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University; author "Small Wonder: The Little Red Schoolhouse in History and Memory" (Yale Press)

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