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A challenging provocation. * Future Survey, August 2007 * Mindful of the varied factors that have shaped and continue to shape American educational reform, Maurice and Clair Berube have written one of the most insightful well-researched and interesting works on the nature of education reform, past, present and future. Based, in part, from interviews with the most critical observers in the field (Giroux, Ravitch, Apple, among others), the authors have not only placed current debates about the achievement gap and effects of poverty in historical perspective, but have raised provocative questions about the very future of American education. Echoing Boyd Bode's astute obsevation that the 'problem of education is a problem of direction,' the authors offer readers some guideposts. -- Jeffrey Glanz, Wagner College

Mindful of the varied factors that have shaped and continue to shape American educational reform, Maurice and Clair Berube have written one of the most insightful well-researched and interesting works on the nature of education reform, past, present and future. Based, in part, from interviews with the most critical observers in the field (Giroux, Ravitch, Apple, among others), the authors have not only placed current debates about the achievement gap and effects of poverty in historical perspective, but have raised provocative questions about the very future of American education. Echoing Boyd Bode's astute obsevation that the 'problem of education is a problem of direction, ' the authors offer readers some guideposts.--Jeffrey Glanz

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Maurice R. Berube is Eminent Scholar Emeritus from Old Dominion University in Norfolk, VA. He has published eleven other books, including American School Reform: Progressive, Equity and Excellence Movements 1893-1993 and American Presidents and Education. Clair T. Berube is assistant professor education at St. Xavier University in Chicago. She has published in academic and public intellectual magazines.

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