Bøker av Larry Cuban

Historian of education Larry Cuban reflects on education reforms and his experiences with them as a student, educator, and administrator. Interwoven with Cuban's evaluations and remembrances are his ""confessions,"" in which he accounts for the beliefs he held and later rejected, as well as areas of weakness that he has found in his own ideology.

Provides a thorough examination of, and challenge to, past and present definitions of what constitutes educational success in the US. Larry Cuban argues that in the history of American education, standards of achievement and inadequacy have been neither stable nor consistent. Nor are these standards untainted by political considerations.

Looks at the uses and effects of digital technologies in K-12 classrooms, exploring if and how technology has transformed teaching and learning. In particular, Larry Cuban examines forty-one classrooms across six districts in Silicon Valley that have devoted special attention and resources to integrating digital technologies into their education practices.

Explores the teaching of history in American high schools during the past half-century. Drawing on his early career experience as a high school history educator and his more recent work as a historian of US education policy and practice, Larry Cuban examines how determined reformers have and have not changed the teaching of history.

Offers an in-depth look at the Mapleton, Colorado, school district's transformation of two traditional high schools into seven small schools, each enrolling fewer than four hundred students. This even-handed account chronicles both the heartening successes and frequent frustrations of a district-wide embrace of the small school model.

Focusing on three diverse school districts (Arlington, Virginia; Denver, Colorado; and Oakland, California), this book offers a portrayal of how teachers teach. It looks at a range of workable pedagogical options educators are using to engage students while satisfying parents and policymakers - options that succeed by creating hybrid practices.

In an era of major reform in education, this book poses a serious question: Why haven't classroom practices evolved to reflect changes in policy? The book exposes persistent, routine teacher strategies that must be addressed to optimize reform efforts.

Offers balanced analyses of 23 currently popular school reform strategies, from teacher performance pay and putting mayors in charge to turnaround schools and data-driven instruction. Each chapter explains clearly and concisely what each reform intends to do, what happens in reality, and what it takes to make it work.

After almost five decades of working in and around public schools, Larry Cuban invites us to think along with him about why it is so hard to get good schools. He offers these reflections to teachers, policymakers, researchers, parents and students, all of whom seek good schooling.

One of the most respected voices in American education demonstrates that when teachers are not given a say in how new technology might reshape schools, students and teachers use that technology far less in the classroom than they do at home, and that teachers who use computers for instruction do so infrequently and unimaginatively.

Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: what is more important, teaching or research? Using two departments (history and medicine) at Stanford University as a case study, he shows how universities have subordinated teaching to research since 1890.

Cuban takes a richly detailed history of the Austin, Texas, school district, under Superintendent Pat Forgione, to ask the question that few politicians and school reformers want to touch: given effective use of widely welcomed reforms, can school policies and practices put all children at the same academic level?

In this provocative new book, Cuban takes aim at the alluring cliche that schools should be more businesslike, and shows that in its long history in business-minded America, no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education.