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2020 marks a quarter-century since Tinkering was published. Still in print, the short book on the history of school reform that David Tyack* and I wrote has been praised and panned. Over the years, David and I have spoken and written about the ideas we expressed in the book about history of U.S. school reform and subsequent shifts that we have seen in reform-minded policies pushed by federal and state authorities. And, of course, the hyperbole that accompanied each reform’s rhetoric, action, and implementation. We have been asked many questions over the years about the logic of the central argument we made and evidence we had to support it. We have been asked about why schooling (both private and public) seem so familiar to each generation of parents even with new buildings, furnishings, and technologies. Not long ago, however, I was asked one question that I don’t remember ever being asked: Whose utopia are you tinkering toward? That question returns to me during the current pandemic

Another Look at “Tinkering Toward Utopia” | Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice Larry Cuban on School Reform and Classroom Practice Skip to content Home About ← Whatever Happened to Authentic Assessment? Reimagining the Public High School in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Part 1) → September 29, 2020 · 1:00 am ↓ Jump to Comments Another Look at “Tinkering Toward Utopia” 2020 marks a quarter-century since Tinkering was published. Still in print, the short book on the history of school reform that David Tyack* and I wrote has been prais

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