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The great curriculum debate : how should we teach reading and math? / Tom Loveless, editor.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Curricula--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Curricula.
- United States.
- Curriculum planning--United States.
- Curriculum planning.
- Reading--United States.
- Reading.
- Mathematics--Study and teaching--United States.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematics--Study and teaching.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2001]
- Summary:
- The American school curriculum is controversial. Throughout the twentieth century, educators argued about what schools should teach and how they should teach it. At the end of the century, the debate focused on reading and mathematics. This book is about the public conflict that surrounded the two subjects in the 1990s. It includes contributions from influential scholars on both sides of the debates, as well as chapters by distinguished nonpartisans. It examines what fueled the controversies, clarifies adversarial positions, analyzes the politics of the disputes, and investigates how curricular conflicts may have affected policy and practice.
- Contents:
- Introduction / Tom Loveless
- The roots of the education wars / E. D. Hirsch Jr.
- Mathematics education : the future and the past create a context for today's issues / Gail Burrill
- Research and reform in mathematics education / Michael T. Battista
- A Darwinian perspective on mathematics and instruction / David C. Geary
- The impact of traditional and reform-style practices on student mathematics achievement / Roger Shouse
- Beyond curriculum wars : content and understanding in mathematics / Adam Gamoran
- Good intentions are not enough / Richard Askey
- A tale of two math reforms : the politics of the new math and the NCTM standards / Tom Loveless
- Its time to stop the war / Diane Ravitch
- Preventing reading difficulties in young children : precursors and fallout / Catherine E. Snow
- Contemporary reading instruction / Margaret Moustafa
- Does state and federal reading policymaking matter? / Richard L. Allington
- The politics of the reading wars / William Lowe Boyd and Douglas E. Mitchell.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0815753101
- 0815753098
- OCLC:
- 47297579
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