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The last word: the best commentary and controversy in American education
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons
Publication Date
c2007
Language
English
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Peabody Main - Adult Nonfiction
LA 217.2 .L37 2007
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LA 217.2 .L37 2007
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Table of Contents
From the Book - 1st ed.
Epitaph for an English teacher / Howard Good
"Too smart to be a teacher" / James R. Delisle
No more silver bullets : let's fix teacher education / Vartan Gregorian
Increase class size - and pay teachers more / Saul Cooperman
"The national responsibility" for equality of educational opportunity / John Hope Franklin
Census 2000 is coming! / Harold Hodgkinson
legacy of "all deliberate speed" / Pedro A. Noguera and Robert Cohen
Racism explained to my white daughter / Patricia M. Cooper
By all measures : coming to terms on world-class standards / Albert Shanker
By all measures : "just another false chase" / Deborah Meier
Is there a standard for meeting standards? / Lewis A. Rhodes
need for anti-Babel standards / Howard Gardner
Confusing harder with better / Alfie Kohn
tests we need / E. D. Hirsch, Jr.
Multiple measures / Ronald A. Wolk
Curriculum mood swings / Anne Wescott Dodd
Why ignore the forms of art? / Maxine Greene
Rescue the wonder of the printed page / Joy Hakim
In defense of whimsy / Jane Dimyan-Ehrenfeld
Black to the future / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
technology puzzle / Larry Cuban
Seeking Edutopia / Milton Chen
Preparing students for work in a computer-filled economy / Frank Levy and Richard J. Murnane
Teaching integrity : the boundaries of moral education / Edwin J. Delattre
Helping children with scary news - written in 1991 in response to the Persian Gulf War / Fred Rogers and Hedda Bluestone Sharapan
Teaching the "other half of democracy's story / Ralph Nader
Now is the time to teach democracy / Diane Ravitch
Teaching for wisdom in our schools / Robert J. Sternberg
nation in wait / John I. Goodlad
Questioning cliches of education reform / Chester E. Finn, Jr.
On lame horses and tortoises / Theodore R. Sizer
Is the comprehensive high school doomed? / W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson
Seek simplicity ... and distrust it / Lee S. Shulman
Creating an entrepreneurial school system / Marc S. Tucker
Make public schools more like private / Adam Urbanski
Charter schools : escape or reform? / Marc Dean Millot, Paul T. Hill and Robin Lake
For-profit schooling : where's the public good? / Linda Darling-Hammond
Competing for our clients / Dorothy Rich
Schools must reconnect pupils, cultivate leadership for change / Bill Clinton
Old questions will produce old answers to the problem of educational leadership / Allen Berger
Pooling our resources / Suzanne Tingley
principalship : looking for leaders in a time of change / Mildred Collins Pierce and Leslie T. Fenwick.
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9780787996062
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