Education flashpoints : fighting for America's schools /

"Drawing on his widely read Huffington Post columns -- rated one of the top educational blogs in the United States -- Alan Singer introduces readers to contemporary issues in education in the United States. The issues are presented with a point of view and an edge intended to promote widespread...

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Main Author: Singer, Alan J. (Author)
Corporate Author: Ebook Library
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis, 2014.
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505 0 |a Pt. 1 What Shall We Do with the Children? -- What's Good for the Mayor's Kids Is Good Enough for Ours -- These Kids Don't Have a Shot -- Being Gifted Means You Get All the Gifts -- Why Have "Specialized" High Schools? -- Hempstead Freedom Walkers Challenge Long Island Segregation -- Pablo's Kids March on Washington -- People with Guns Kill People and Children -- The School-to-Prison Pipeline -- Pt. 2 Defending Teachers -- Why Tenure for Teachers Is Important -- Tomahawks and Teachers -- Teach for America-It's All About "Me"! -- Measure for Mis-Measure with Teacher Assessments -- Testing Teachers by Testing Kids Is an Awful Idea -- Fire Half of the Teachers! -- Who Is Charlotte Danielson and Why Does She Decide How Teachers Are Evaluated? -- Pt. 3 Teacher Education -- Are Schools of Education Why Children Don't Learn? -- We Need to Make Eye Contact -- Arizonafication of Teacher Education -- Anger in the Heartland over Unfair Teacher Tests -- Problems with Pearson's Student Teacher Evaluation System -- Pt. 4 Teachers Unions -- Redefining and Rebuilding the Teachers Unions -- Why I Am Pro-Union and Pro-Teacher -- Chicago Teachers Strike for Us All -- The "People's Budget" Movement -- Pt. 5 Business, Politics, and School Deform -- Matt Damon Can't Save the Schools -- Opposition Grows to School Deform -- Higher Education for the Twenty-First Century -- Hacking Away at the Pearson Octopus -- Pearson "Education"-Who Are These People? -- Los Angeles Students Outfox Apple, Pearson, and The School Board -- Pt. 6 Who Makes Education Policy? -- Pretending to Confront the Global Achievement Gap -- Obama, Duncan, and the Public Schools -- Thank You, Arne Duncan -- Race to the Top Mandates Impossible to Implement -- Empty Promises in the Obama Mis-Education Agenda -- What Is a Twenty-First Century Job? -- Guest Essay by Norman Markowitz: Governor Christie's War against New Jersey Public Employees -- Pt. 7 Where Is the Chart for Charter Schools? -- Charter Schook Are the Wrong Answer -- What Happens If the Charter School Companies Win? -- Charter Schools Don't Do Miracles -- Schools Enter Chartered Waters -- Pt. 8 Common Core-What Is It Good For? -- Common Core, What Is It Good For? -- Can Common Core Turn On the Math and Science? -- The Third-Grade Science Fair: A Common Core Conundrum -- Common Core: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly -- What's Missing from Common Core Is Education for Democracy -- Pt. 9 High-Stakes Testing -- What Do the Tests Test? -- Do These Tests Have Educational Value? -- Cheating Students Who ''Pass" the Test -- The "Wisdom" of Pearson's Pineapple Passage -- Pearson and the Atlanta' School Mess -- Did the "Melk Man" Learn to Cheat at Stuyvesant High School? -- Cheating on the Test-I May Be Guilty Also! -- Pt. 10 Curriculum and Instruction -- Don't Know Much About-History, Geography, or Civics -- "Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts" -- If Massachusetts Was a Country -- Math in the People's Republic of Massachusetts (and in the Country of California) -- Gideon's Math Homework -- Pt. 11 Reform or Deform? -- What If Our Schools Are Working? -- Do You Want to Buy the Brooklyn Bridge? -- Does the Ghost of George Steinbrenner Run the Schools? -- Bloomberg and Klein Fail -- Guest Essay: Following Finland's Example...Backward by Joel Shatzky -- Pt. 12 Resistance! -- To Students Who Are Fighting Back -- The Cupcake Resistance Movement -- In Seattle Opposition Grows to School Deform -- The Mayor's Powerful New Enemies -- In New Jersey the Children Shall Lead -- Teachers as Crap Detectors -- 
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