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 Forgotten Heroes of American Education: The Great Tradition of Teaching Teachers
Edited by Diane Ravitch and J. Wesley Null
Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2006
From the Publisher:
"Few aspects of educational reform are more crucial than improving the quality of teacher education. Null and Ravitch have gathered an impressive collection of essays from a group of pedagogical "dissidents" who, for almost a century, have advocated a different approach to teacher education than the one that has led to our current educational morass. This book should be required reading not just for teachers and teacher educators, but for anyone concerned about the future of education in this country." —Jeffrey Mirel, Professor of Educational Studies and Professor of History, University of Michigan
"Forgotten Heroes is a refreshing, provocative and timely contribution to the deliberations and debates about the future of teacher education. It is highly stimulating to read the work of "anti-progressivists" like Bagley, Kandel—and John Dewey himself, who was shocked by some of the excesses of his disciples and acolytes. Null and Ravitch have made a superb contribution to our policy and practice discussions of teacher education by reviving the work of these 'forgotten heroes.'" —Lee S. Shulman, President, The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching
"This splendid collection reminds me of a friend’s shelf: 'Books banned by the Nazis,' containing Freud, Marx, Kafka, Brecht, and a host of other outstanding thinkers and writers—much better authors than the ones the Nazis permitted. Is the analogy far fetched? Not entirely. Just as those earlier book-banners labeled authors 'Un-German,' so our schools of education now think it sufficient to label authors 'traditional' to consign them to oblivion—even when the writers gathered here aren’t currently traditional at all. In today’s education world, the writers in this collection are radical. This book contains some of the most profound writing about education that our country has produced." —E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Best-selling author of Cultural Literacy and Founder of the Core Knowledge Foundation
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