The Impossible Dream: Education and the Search for Panaceas

by Thomas C. Hunt

The history of American schooling is replete with evidence of the American proclivity to seek the panacea. The American education landscape is dotted with educational reformers, who in their zeal proclaimed that the sure-fire remedy they were proposing was a cinch to completely solve a given challenge or problem. Their proposed magic elixir, advanced with total confidence, would take effect after the time of its implementation and would bring paradise...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820437476
• ISBN13: 9780820437477
• Release Date: May 2002
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 301 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.