Rethinking School Reform Views from the Classroom

Name: Rethinking School Reform Views from the Classroom
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ISBN: 9780942961294

ISBN-10: 0942961293

ISBN-13: 9780942961294

Edition: 2003

Authors: Linda Christensen, Stan Karp

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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Rethinking Schools, Limited
Publication date: 1/1/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 337
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.25" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Critical Teaching


Rethinking Our Classrooms: Teaching for Equity and Justice


Untracking English


Unsung Heroes


Teaching About Unsung Heroes


The Truth About Helen Keller


Acting for Justice


One Teacher's Journey


Taking Bias Seriously


Ebonics and Cuturally Responsive Instruction


Once Upon a Genocide: Columbus in Children's Literature


Arranged Marriages, Rearranged Ideas


Presidents and Slaves: Helping Students Find the Truth


Unlearning the Myths That Bind Us


What Color Is Beautiful?


Out Front


Education Policy and Politics


Schools More Separate: A Decade of Resegregration


Neighborhood Schools: Deja Vu


"Choice" and Other White Lies


For-Profits Target Education


Learning to Read "Scientifically"


Bush's Bad Idea for Bilingual Education


Let Them Eat Tests: NCLB and Federal Education Policy


Standards and Testing


The Educational Costs of Standardization


Race, Testing, and the Miner's Canary


Standards and Multiculturalism


Testing Slights Multiculturalism


Teaching in Dangerous Times


Their Report Card--And Ours


Roads to Reform


Drive-By School Reform


Reconstituting Jefferson: Lessons on School Reform


Money, Schools, and Justice


Teacher Councils: Tools for Change


"Summer Camp" for Teachers: Alternative Staff Development


Survival and Justice: Twin Goals for Teacher Unions


Confronting Racism, Promoting Respect


Editors


Contributors


Acknowledgments


Index