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School reform : the critical issues / edited by Williamson M. Evers, Lance T. Izumi, and Pamela A. Riley.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; 499.
- Hoover Institution Press publication ; number 499
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--United States.
- School improvement programs.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (776 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Stanford, California : Hoover Institution Press ; San Francisco : Pacific Research Institute, [2001]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book explores a wide range of critical areas in education, examines the basic nature of our education problems, provides a clear understanding of underperformance, and proposes reasonable and effective strategies for success.
- Contents:
- Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Teaching Approaches; Progressive Education; School Reforms Hinder Learning, Crusader Argues; A Unique School or out of Step?; Opposing Approaches so Johnny Can Read: Finding the Answers in Drills and Rigor; The Schools They Deserve: Howard Gardner and the Remaking of Elite Education; What Is an Educrat?; Curriculum and Methods; Developmental Appropriateness: Review - Years of Promise: A Comprehensive Learning Strategy for America's Children; Science Friction
- Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism in Elementary and Secondary SchoolsComputers/Distance Learning; Should Schools Be Wired to the Internet?: No-Learn First, Surf Later; The Learning Revolution; Direct Instruction, Explicit Teaching; Effective Education Squelched; Ability Grouping; The Concept of Grouping in Gifted Education: In Search of Reality-Unraveling the Myths about Tracking, Ability Grouping, and the Gifted; Whole School Reform; Ready, Read!; The Student; Student Beliefs/Character Education; Failure outside the Classroom; Values, Views, or Virtues?
- Blame the Schools, not the ParentsGoodbye to Sara and Benjamin?; Social Promotion; Student Customers Being Sold a Bad Product; Why Johnny can't Fail: How the ""Floating Standard"" has Destroyed Public Education; Parents and Teachers; Parents; The Parent Trap; Teachers; Who Teaches the Teachers?; Why Johnny's Teacher can't Teach; The Truth about Teacher Salaries and Student Achievement; Why it's too Hard to Fire Bad Teachers; How Teachers' Unions Handcuff Schools; How Teachers should be Evaluated; Put Teachers to the Test; Top-Notch Teachers are Key to Better Schools
- School Unions Shortchange StudentsEducationally Disadvantaged; A Taboo Erodes; Loco, Completamente Loco: The Many Failures of ""Bilingual Education""; Defining Disability Down: Why Johnny Can't Read, Write, or Sit Still; Why Ritalin Rules; The Scandal of Special Ed; Standards and Accountability; Developing and Implementing Academic Standards: A Template for Legislative Reform; The War against Testing; Structuring Education; Spending; Making America's Schools Work; Half of Choice Schools Spend Less than State Allots
- Money and School Performance: Lessons from the Kansas City Desegregation ExperimentsVouchers; Public Schools: Make Them Private; School Choice: Beyond the Numbers; Fighting for School Choice: It's a Civil Right; Contracting out; Whittling Away the Public School Monopoly; A Private Solution; Charter Schools; Class Acts: How Charter Schools are Revamping Public Education in Arizona-And beyond; Healthy Competition; Class and School Size; The Elixir of Class Size; Where Everybody knows your Name; Federal Aid to Education and the Poor; Title I's 118 Billion Fails to Close Gap; Home Schooling
- Special Ed: Factory-like Schooling may Soon be a Thing of the Past
- Notes:
- "This book is a joint effort by the Hoover Institution and the Pacific Research Institute ..."--page [4] of cover.
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-8179-2878-2
- OCLC:
- 876507790
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