| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xii, 244 p. ; 23 cm. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
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 -- "National responsibility" for equality of educational opportunity / John Hope Franklin -- Census 2000 is coming! / Harold Hodgkinson -- Legacy of "all deliberate speed" / Pedro A. Noguera, 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, 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, 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, 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, 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 a 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 / Midred Collins Price, Leslie T. Fenwick. |
| Subject |
Education -- United States.
|
| Added Title |
Education week.
|
| ISBN |
0787996068 (pbk.) |
|
9780787996062 (pbk.) |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2501405 |
|
AU@ 000041267625 |
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