“学校大辩论”是对20世纪80年代以来，特别是1983年《国家处于危机之中：教育改革势在必行》发表以来，由美国的一些“教育政治家”以著书立说的形式展开的一场关于公共教育改革的论战。对“学校大辩论”的研究几乎是和“学校大辩论”同时展开的，囊括了史学保守派、史学激进派、重建主义教育学派和批判教育学派四大流派，形成了阐释性与批判性两条研究路径。“,”Since the 1980s, especially after the publication of A Nation at Risk in 198!3, there happened the great debates about American public education reforms among ＂educational politicians＂.That was so-call the ＂Great School Debates＂. As the development of the＂Great School Debates＂, the researches on it were going on as well, and there were four schools involved in it. They were conservative historians, radical historians, reconstmction pedagogy, and critical pedagogy