Word: educationists
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...However, that survey omitted the ten largest programs in the state. Stanford Education Professor Michael Kirst, who serves as a HEW adviser, calls it "a loosely done, uncontrolled study" with "very weak findings," and concludes: "The Administration is picking any straws it can gather." A. Harry Passow, a Columbia educationist, is only slightly more sanguine about compensatory education. "If you spend money properly, it can help," he says. "But it can help more if you integrate...
Actually, Jones's book is itself a rather long footnote to the educational psychology of Bruner. America's pre-eminent educationist. Fantasy and Feeling in Education purports to be nothing more than a theoretical and practical complement to Bruner's pioneering Toward a Theory of Instruction (1966). Over and over Jones says that it is not his fiend and former colleague's "specific suggestions toward a theory of instruction, nor the specific prescriptions for educational reform that have been derived from these suggestions, with which I have taken exception. Only their exclusivism...