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Title Letters to the next president : what we can do about the real crisis in public education / edited by Carl Glickman ; prologue by Bill Cosby.

Imprint New York : Teachers College Press, c2004.

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 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  371.01 L569 2004    ---  Available
Description xvi, 272 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents I: Schools for all -- Journey to a new life / Rosa Fernandez -- Helping me to raise my hand / Vance Rawles -- Creating schools we can trust / Deborah Meier -- If we had the will to see it happen / Asa G. Hilliard III -- Getting our responsibilities right / Sophie Sa -- It's past time to fund what we mandate / U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords -- Financing America's future-- how money counts / William J. Mathis -- Why we need public education / John I. Goodlad -- II: Learning for all -- Broken roads and the great mother earth / Derrick Attakai, Evalena Joey, Britta Mitchell, Melody Riggs, and Manuel Thompson with Mark Sorensen -- In struggle and hope / Lisa Delpit -- Eight million voices / Rachel Tompkins -- How our high school makes a difference / George Wood -- Putting the arts back in America's ABC's / Reynold Levy -- When does $1.00 equal $7.00? / Lilian Katz -- What they do with the other 73 percent of their time / Louis B. Casagrande -- III: Teaching for all -- My students, my school / Karen Hale Hankins -- Teaching Darius to dream / Jacqueline Jordan Irvine -- Why we stay / Jane Butters -- Gap between what we say and what we do / Arturo Pacheco -- Revolving doors and leaky buckets / Richard Ingersoll -- IV: Standards for all -- Choking the life out of classrooms / Sylvia Bruni -- What my students need to know / Edward C. Montgomery -- No-win accountability game / W. James Popham -- Going beyond the slogans and rhetoric / Pedro Noguera -- "... And equal education for all" / Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton -- President that "gets it" / Thomas Sobol -- V: Education for all -- Civic mission of schools / U.S. Senator John Glenn and Leslie F. Hergert -- What we all want for each of out children / Theodore R. Sizer -- Postcards from America / Michelle Fine, April Burns, and Maria Elena Torre -- Learning to come alive / Maxine Greene -- Voices closed to the ones we love / Ken Rolling and Sandra Halladey -- Nation of learners / Pam Solo -- Schools that work for all children / Linda Darling-Hammond -- If we are not for our children, who are we for? / The late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone.
Subject Public schools.
Educational change.
Education and state.
Added Author Glickman, Carl D.
ISBN 0807744271 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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