Education and the Cult of Efficiency

Name: Education and the Cult of Efficiency
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ISBN: 9780226091501

ISBN-10: 0226091503

ISBN-13: 9780226091501

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Authors: Raymond E. Callahan

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Raymond Callahan's lively study exposes the alarming lengths to which school administrators went, particularly in the period from 1910 to 1930, in sacrificing educational goals to the demands of business procedures. He suggests that even today the question still asked is: "How can we operate our schools?" Society has not yet learned to ask: "How can we provide an excellent education for our children?"

Book details

List price: $30.00
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/15/1964
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 288
Size: 5.75" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English




The Prelude 1900-1910


The Schools in a Business Society Setting the Stage for the Efficiency Expert



Reform-Conscious America Discovers the Efficiency Expert


The Principles of Scientific Management


The Mechanisms of Scientific Managementnbsp; Schmidt, Pig Iron, and First-Class Men



Criticism and Response in the Early Years of the Efficiency Era Mounting Criticism of Education 1911-13


The Vulnerability of School Administrators Administrators Respond to the Demands of Efficiency



American Educators Apply the Great Panacea


The Dollar as Educational Criterion Management and the Worker in Education



The Educational Efficiency Experts in Action Efficiency Measures for the Schools


The School Survey


The Unavailing Dissent



The "Factory System" in Education—the Platoon School


The Gary Plan and Scientific Management


The New York Story A Question of Motive



Instruction Follows Accounting Demonstrating Efficiency through Records and Reports


Educational Cost Accounting


The Education Balance Sheet and Child Accounting Binding Education in Red Tape



A New Profession Takes Form


The Captains of Education


The Study of Educational Administration in the Universities


The Education of the School "Executive"


The Insecurity Down Below Seeking Security


Through Professional "Expertness"


The New Profession—the School Executive



Efficiency's Progeny Selling the Schools to the Public


The Educational Service Station Mass Production in Education


The Descent into Trivia



An American Tragedy in Education


The Great Diffusion America Reaps the Whirlwind A Look Ahead


Index