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Author : Thomas L. Good,Jennifer S. Braden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Charter schools
ISBN : 0805835512
Examines American student performance, the effectiveness of such education alternatives as voucher programs and charter schools, and the issues that surround school choice.
Author : Thomas L. Good,Jennifer S. Braden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135654733
This book will present a comprehensive examination of the latest school reform effort, the charter school movement. For anyone seriously interested in school reform & the charter school movement, including teachers, principals, & college educ faculty.
Author : Thomas L. Good,Jennifer S. Braden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135654726
This book examines reform in American education over the past fifty years and against this backdrop presents a compelling analysis of why contemporary voucher plans and charter schools have yet to fulfill the expectations of their advocates. It is the only book to date to attempt a comprehensive synthesis and analysis of the emerging research base on vouchers and charter schools. Suitable for courses in school policy, school reform, school leadership, or educational issues, it will also be of interest to anyone (parents, teachers, policymakers) directly involved with the charter school movement. Key features of this timely new book include the following: * A Historical Perspective--The early chapters look at American educational reform over the past fifty years and analyze why these efforts have fallen short of their goals. * Student Achievement--Chapter 3 provides an insightful assessment of American students' school achievement from 1970 to the present and, in the process, counters the widely held myth that, overall, student achievement has deteriorated. * Voucher Plans and Charter Schools--Chapter 4 looks specifically at choice and vouchers in American education while chapters 5-7 provide a comprehensive and balanced examination of the charter school movement. * Policy Recommendations--The book concludes with explicit policy suggestions that attempt to balance the educational needs of children and youth against the rights of schools to experiment. Suggestions for developing broader coalitions to support public education, particularly in the inner cities, are also offered.
Author : Good/Braden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805846506
Author : Beatrice Gross,Ronald Gross
Publisher : New York : Simon & Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : 0671541366
The editors of "Radical School Reform" offer a timely overview of the status of and controversies, issues, and trends in American educational systems
Author : R Shankar
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9789350481813
Success in any walk of life is hard to achieve in this razor-edged highly competitive age. Besides knowledge; one has to be well versed in the art of forceful communication; an essential pre-requisite of a qualified man; lack of which renders him unfit for high posts in any sector. Participation in debating activities makes a man forceful communicator. Debating is an art and it can be mastered and developed by constant practice. Fluency in speech enables a man to express views effectively and convincingly. Debates are nowadays a regular feature in schools and colleges. Pupils are assigned debatable statements to argue either in favour or against the motion on occasions like Independence Day or Republic Day. Often inter-school competitions are organized on such eves and the best debater is conferred with prizes. In competitive as well as school tests; examinees are asked to put forward their pros and cons views against a debatable statement. The dearth of books on debatable topics is being felt seriously which could cater to the needs of participants. Most of the participants exhibit no interest due to lack of guidance and sufficient materials and prefer to remain mute spectators in the debating hall. Here relevant topics of general interests have been compiled and presented both ways—positively and negatively with a view to provide feedback to young debaters.
Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 492 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000-07-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 0801864712
Named one of the Ten Best Books about New York City by the New York Times
Author : Beatrice Gross,Ronald Gross
Publisher : New York : Simon & Schuster
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Education
ISBN : MINN:319510005128717
The editors of "Radical School Reform" offers a timely overview of the status of and controversies, issues, and trends in American educational systems.
Author : Michael Schiro
Publisher : Educational Technology
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Education
ISBN : 0877781001
Author : Christopher A. Lubienski,Sarah Theule Lubienski
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013-11-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780226089072
Nearly the whole of America’s partisan politics centers on a single question: Can markets solve our social problems? And for years this question has played out ferociously in the debates about how we should educate our children. From the growth of vouchers and charter schools to the implementation of No Child Left Behind, policy makers have increasingly turned to market-based models to help improve our schools, believing that private institutions—because they are competitively driven—are better than public ones. With The Public School Advantage, Christopher A. and Sarah Theule Lubienski offer powerful evidence to undercut this belief, showing that public schools in fact outperform private ones. For decades research showing that students at private schools perform better than students at public ones has been used to promote the benefits of the private sector in education, including vouchers and charter schools—but much of these data are now nearly half a century old. Drawing on two recent, large-scale, and nationally representative databases, the Lubienskis show that any benefit seen in private school performance now is more than explained by demographics. Private schools have higher scores not because they are better institutions but because their students largely come from more privileged backgrounds that offer greater educational support. After correcting for demographics, the Lubienskis go on to show that gains in student achievement at public schools are at least as great and often greater than those at private ones. Even more surprising, they show that the very mechanism that market-based reformers champion—autonomy—may be the crucial factor that prevents private schools from performing better. Alternatively, those practices that these reformers castigate, such as teacher certification and professional reforms of curriculum and instruction, turn out to have a significant effect on school improvement. Despite our politics, we all agree on the fundamental fact: education deserves our utmost care. The Public School Advantage offers exactly that. By examining schools within the diversity of populations in which they actually operate, it provides not ideologies but facts. And the facts say it clearly: education is better off when provided for the public by the public.
Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010-03-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780465014910
Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a decline in public education and presents arguments for a return to strong neighborhood schools and quality teaching.
Author : Tom Loveless
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004-05-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 0815798156
Since the early twentieth century, American educators have been engaged in a heated debate over what schools should teach and how they should teach it. The partisans—"education progressives" and "education traditionalists"—have usually kept their disagreements within the walls of the nation's schools of education. Periodically, however, arguments have erupted which have generated headlines and attracted public attention, making clear the potential for bitterness and rancor in education politics. In the 1990s, progressives and traditionalists squared off in a dispute over reading and mathematics. Arguments over how best to teach these two subjects is detailed in The Great Curriculum Debate: How Should We Teach Reading and Math? This book includes contributions from distinguished scholars from both sides of the debate, as well as influential nonpartisans. The proponents of "whole language" and "phonics" present their opposing views on reading. Advocates and opponents of "NCTM math reform"—the agenda of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM)—discuss their differing opinions about math. Although the authors disagree on many of the most important aspects of learning, they agree on one point: the school curriculum matters. Decisions made now about the content of reading and mathematics will have long term consequences, not only for students and schools, but for society as a whole. Contributors include E. D. Hirsch Jr. (University of Virginia), Gail Burrill (Mathematical Sciences Education Board), Michael T. Battista (Kent State University), David C. Geary (University of Missouri, Columbia), Roger Shouse (Penn State University), Adam Gamoran (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Richard Askey (University of Wisconsin, Madison), Diane Ravitch (New York University), Catherine E. Snow (Harvard University), Margaret Moustafa (California State University, LA), Richard L. Allington (University of Florida), William Lowe Boyd (Penn State University), a
Author : William Hayes
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1578861799
Written as a study of the 1983 A Nation at Risk report and its impact on public education, this book analyzes this reform and suggests future priorities for public education in the United States.
Author : C. Winfield Scott,Hobert W. Burns,Clyde Milton Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:749996840
Author : Gary Alan Fine
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781400824199
Learning to argue and persuade in a highly competitive environment is only one aspect of life on a high-school debate team. Teenage debaters also participate in a distinct cultural world--complete with its own jargon and status system--in which they must negotiate complicated relationships with teammates, competitors, coaches, and parents as well as classmates outside the debating circuit. In Gifted Tongues, Gary Alan Fine offers a rich description of this world as a testing ground for both intellectual and emotional development, while seeking to understand adolescents as social actors. Considering the benefits and drawbacks of the debating experience, he also recommends ways of reshaping programs so that more high schools can use them to boost academic performance and foster specific skills in citizenship. Fine analyzes the training of debaters in rapid-fire speech, rules of logical argumentation, and the strategic use of evidence, and how this training instills the core values of such American institutions as law and politics. Debates, however, sometimes veer quickly from fine displays of logic to acts of immaturity--a reflection of the tensions experienced by young people learning to think as adults. Fine contributes to our understanding of teenage years by encouraging us not to view them as a distinct stage of development but rather a time in which young people draw from a toolkit of both childlike and adult behaviors. A well-designed debate program, he concludes, nurtures the intellect while providing a setting in which teens learn to make better behavioral choices, ones that will shape relationships in their personal, professional, and civic lives.
