"As America struggles with the social and political challenges of improving - or abandoning - public education, with the controversial effects of new testing policies on children's learning and schooling opportunities, and with the moral mandate (far from reality) of 'Leaving no child behind,' Ralph Tyler still offers wisdom we sorely need. Everyone involved in the reform of public education today should read - and reread - this book." -- Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University "[C]aptures the essence of a man whose accomplishments far exceeded both the recognition he received and his own perception of them. Tyler would have enjoyed it. Indeed, he might well have bequeathed it as a legacy to us all from which we could go on learning from him. Tyler once said that, before retiring each night, he asked himself what he had learned that day and how he might use it. Each of us might read a little of Finder's slim volume each evening and contemplate what we learned and how we might use it to better our lives and those of others. Finder has given us the memorial that most appropriately reflects that quintessential teacher, Ralph Tyler, and the opportunity to learn from him again as though he were still our living mentor." -- John Goodland, Professor and Director, Center for Educational Renewal, University of Washington, Seatle Ralph Tyler was an extraordinary man and Morris Finder's biography tells us why in a very engaging account. -- Ellen Condliffe Lagemann^LDean, Graduate School of Education^LHarvard University of Education
Acknowledgments
Foreword by Henry Louis Gates Jr.
Introduction: All Schooling Is Local
The Making of an Educator
Democratizing High Schools and College Admissions
Appraising the Nation's Schools
The Tyler Rationale
Contrarian Views
Ralph W. Tyler: A Chronology
Notes
Conversations with Ralph W. Tyler
Publications by Ralph W. Tyler, 1930-1985
Publications by and about Ralph W. Tyler, 1986-
Morris Finder is professor emeritus of English education, School of Education at the State University of New York, Albany. He is the author of many professional articles and books. He received his PhD in education from the University of Chicago, where he met Ralph W. Tyler. He has taught in universities in the United States and abroad.
"[C]aptures the essence of a man whose accomplishments far exceeded
both the recognition he received and his own perception of them.
Tyler would have enjoyed it. Indeed, he might well have bequeathed
it as a legacy to us all from which we could go on learning from
him. Tyler once said that, before retiring each night, he asked
himself what he had learned that day and how he might use it. Each
of us might read a little of Finder's slim volume each evening and
contemplate what we learned and how we might use it to better our
lives and those of others. Finder has given us the memorial that
most appropriately reflects that quintessential teacher, Ralph
Tyler, and the opportunity to learn from him again as though he
were still our living mentor."-John Goodland Professor and
Director, Center for Educational Renewal University of Washington,
Seatle
"As America struggles with the social and political challenges of
improving - or abandoning - public education, with the
controversial effects of new testing policies on children's
learning and schooling opportunities, and with the moral
mandate(far from reality) of 'Leaving no child behind, ' Ralph
Tyler still offers wisdom we sorely need. Everyone involved in the
reform of public education today should read - and reread - this
book."-Linda Darling-Hammond Charles E. Ducommun Professor of
Education, Stanford University
"Ralph Tyler was an extraordinary man and Morris Finder's biography
tells us why in a very engaging account."-Ellen Condliffe Lagemann
Dean, Graduate School of Education Harvard University of Education
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