What's at stake in the K-12 standards wars : a primer for educational policy makers /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Stotsky, Sandra
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : P. Lang, 2000.
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Table of Contents:
  • 1997 mathematics standards war in California / Hung-Hsi Wu
  • Judging state standards for K-12 mathematics education / Ralph A. Raimi
  • Standards-based mathematics assessments : appearances may be deceiving / Paul Clopton, Wayne Bishop, and David Klein
  • National science standards : where is the evidence supporting them? / Stan Metzenberg
  • Science standards wars : what is the basis for scientific inquiry? / Alan Cromer
  • How children learn science : do we now know? / Paul R. Gross and Sandra Stotsky
  • Why the battle over history standards? / Sheldon M. Stern
  • Discipline-based economic standards : opportunity and obstacles / Robert M. Costrell
  • English language arts in American schools : problems and proposals / Thomas Carnicelli
  • State of literary study in national and state English language arts standards : why it matters and what can be done about it / Sandra Stotsky
  • Toward improved English language arts standards for K-12 : what a college professor wishes her students had read / Jeanne J. Smoot
  • Lessons from the Sputnik-era Curriculum Reform movement : the institutions we need for educational reform / Mary Campbell Gallagher
  • National Science Foundation Systemic Initiatives : how a small amount of federal money promotes ill-designed mathematics and science programs in K-12 and undermines local control of education / Michael McKeown, David Klein, and Chris Patterson.