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Kenneth Sirotnik asserts that however well-intentioned, past and current accountability practices in public education are "miseducative, misdirected, and misanthropic." In this provocative book, well-respected educators join Sirotnik to provide critical analyses and sophisticated perspectives on prevailing high-stakes accountability practices. They offer both conceptual and practical foundations for rethinking what it means to act responsibly when...
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In the early days of the American republic, universal public education was proposed as the surest support of the common good and the only institution that could ensure and sustain the good health of the American democracy. Is this proposition still true today? If so, how should we act on this proposition--as educators, as citizens? For this anthology, the Phi Delta Kappa Educational Foundation invited essays on this topic based on research and informed...
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In this absorbing book, Jonathan Zimmerman tells the dramatic story of conflict, compromise, and more conflict over the teaching of history and morality in twentieth-century America. In history, whose stories are told, and how? As Zimmerman reveals, multiculturalism began long ago. Starting in the 1920s, various immigrant groups--the Irish, the Germans, the Italians, even the newly arrived Eastern European Jews--urged school systems and textbook publishers...
4) Many children left behind: how the No Child Left Behind Act is damaging our children and our schools
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Examines the 2002 Federal "No Child Left Behind" law and explains how this law actually damages both the schools and its students including the "dumbing down" of standardized tests rather than setting higher standards of achievement.
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Comprises ten papers. Analyses the effectiveness of various performance-based systems aiming to improve schools' academic achievement. Discusses, for example, a rewards and penalties system, as well as an administrative mechanism (voucher system) to give parents some freedom of choice in selecting schools for their children. Considers other factors leading to better educational results, particularly among disadvantaged pupils.
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Commentators, analysts, and academics have long cherished the notion that there is a fundamental contradiction between corporate profit-seeking and ethical or social responsibility. In this powerful, long-awaited response to these critics, John Hood argues that business owners and managers have huge incentives to promote economic and social progress. Moreover, he finds, the vast majority do so. With compelling evidence, Hood demonstrates how the incentives...
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