Rent 9780787996062 | The Last Word The Best Commentary and Controversy in American Education

Summary Table of Contents Author Biography

Celebrating 25 years of Education Week"For twenty-five years Education Week has been the standard for news and views on American education. In this new publication they offer a rich trove of past opinion pieces from some of America's best education thinkers. This is a great collection of some of the best back-page editorials all in one book." -Paul D. Houston, executive director, American Association of School Administrators, Arlington, Virginia"Finally! Here's a book filled with thought-provoking, relevant discussions about important issues in... MORE

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
The Art of Teaching
Epitaph for an English Teacher	p. 3
"Too Smart to Be a Teacher"	p. 6
No More Silver Bullets: Let's Fix Teacher Education	p. 10
Increase Class Size-and Pay Teachers More	p. 17
Equity and Social Justice
"The National Responsibility" for Equality of Educational Opportunity	p. 23... MORE
Census 2000 Is Coming!	p. 30
The Legacy of "All Deliberate Speed"	p. 35
Racism Explained to My White Daughter	p. 40
Testing Well, Testing Fairly
By All Measures: Coming to Terms on World-Class Standards	p. 47
By All Measures: "Just Another False Chase"	p. 51
Is There a Standard for Meeting Standards?	p. 54
The Need for Anti-Babel Standards	p. 60
Confusing Harder with Better	p. 65
The Tests We Need	p. 70
Multiple Measures	p. 79
Curriculum in the Classroom
Curriculum Mood Swings	p. 85
Why Ignore the Forms of Art?	p. 90
Rescue the Wonder of the Printed Page	p. 93
In Defense of Whimsy	p. 97
Technology and Learning
Black to the Future	p. 105
The Technology Puzzle	p. 110
Seeking Edutopia	p. 115
Preparing Students for Work in a Computer-Filled Economy	p. 123
Democracy and Virtue
Teaching Integrity: The Boundaries of Moral Education	p. 131
Helping Children with Scary News-Written in 1991 in Response to the Persian Gulf War	p. 137
Teaching the "Other Half of Democracy's Story	p. 142
Now Is the Time to Teach Democracy	p. 147
Teaching for Wisdom in Our Schools	p. 152
Change and Reform
A Nation in Wait	p. 159
Questioning Cliches of Education Reform	p. 166
On Lame Horses and Tortoises	p. 173
Is the Comprehensive High School Doomed?	p. 179
Seek Simplicity...and Distrust It	p. 185
Charters and Choice
Creating an Entrepreneurial School System	p. 195
Make Public Schools More Like Private	p. 201
Charter Schools: Escape or Reform?	p. 206
For-Profit Schooling: Where's the Public Good?	p. 211
Competing for Our Clients	p. 215
Inspiring Leadership
Schools Must Reconnect Pupils, Cultivate Leadership for Change	p. 221
Old Questions Will Produce Old Answers to the Problem of Educational Leadership	p. 226
Pooling Our Resources	p. 230
The Principalship: Looking for Leaders in a Time of Change	p. 235
Index	p. 239
Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved.

EDUCATION WEEK has been the newspaper of record for preK-12 education for the past 25 years.� Covering education-related news, policy, and new research and practice, this weekly publication has�over 200,000 readers, and its online component, EdWeek.org,�averages over 1.2 million page views per month.

Education Week is�the flagship publication of Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), a nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education.� EPE first gained prominence for launching The Chronicle of Higher Education�(later sold to its editors) which is the newspaper of record for higher education.� Currently, EPE also publishes the monthly�Teacher Magazine,�annual reports on education quality, and a new job web site for educators called "Agent K-12."

RENT TEXTBOOKS

The Last Word The Best Commentary and Controversy in American Education

Why Rent from Knetbooks?

Top 5 reasons to order all your textbooks from Knetbooks: