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"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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New York :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- 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