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The great curriculum debate : how should we teach reading and math? /

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Other Authors: Loveless, Tom, 1954-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Education > Curricula > United States.
Curriculum planning > United States.
Reading > United States.
Mathematics > Study and teaching > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Tom Loveless
  • The roots of the education wars / E. D. Hirsch Jr.
  • Mathematics education : the future and the past create a context for today's issues / Gail Burrill
  • Research and reform in mathematics education / Michael T. Battista
  • A Darwinian perspective on mathematics and instruction / David C. Geary
  • The impact of traditional and reform-style practices on student mathematics achievement / Roger Shouse
  • Beyond curriculum wars : content and understanding in mathematics / Adam Gamoran
  • Good intentions are not enough / Richard Askey
  • A tale of two math reforms : the politics of the new math and the NCTM standards / Tom Loveless
  • It is time to stop the war / Diane Ravitch
  • Preventing reading difficulties in young children : precursors and fallout / Catherine E. Snow
  • Contemporary reading instruction / Margaret Moustafa
  • Does state and federal reading policymaking matter? / Richard L. Allington
  • The politics of the reading wars / William Lowe Boyd and Douglas E. Mitchell.