On the Death of Childhood and the Destruction of Public Schools The Folly of Today's Education Policies and Practices

Name: On the Death of Childhood and the Destruction of Public Schools The Folly of Today's Education Policies and Practices
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ISBN: 9780325006024

ISBN-10: 0325006024

ISBN-13: 9780325006024

Edition: 2003

Authors: Gerald W. Bracey

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"contrarian" "professional outsider" "a sore loser" "another member of the Flat Earth Society" "a national treasure" "a modern Don Quixote" "a skeptic's joy!" No matter what he's called, Gerald Bracey IS public schools' best defender. And in this book, he uses his considerable writing and research skills on their behalf. With authority, sensitivity, and a good sense of humor, he dismantles the negative PR our public education system has endured and does it with hardcore data, not phony "science." Bracey delivers the statistics and skillful analysis needed to win the numbers game that plays out daily in the popular press. Drawing on data from a variety of reputable sources, he proves that…

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List price: $36.70
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 9/16/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.43" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Debunking Dumb Policies



The No Child Left Behind Act, a Plan for the Destruction of Public Education: Just Say No



A Surefire Way to Destroy America: Test Every Kid Every Year



The Governors' Debacle: The High-Stakes Testing Movement



Failing Children - Twice



Kindergarten Is Too Late



Testing Flunks Life



The Malevolent Tyranny of Algebra



Schools Should Not Prepare Students for the World of Work



Poverty Issues Get Short Shrift



April Foolishness: "A Nation At Risk" at Twenty



But What Does It All Mean?



What If "Falling Schools" Aren't? Or, What I Did Last Summer



Getting Dumber in School?



International Comparisons: An Excuse to Avoid Meaningful Educational Reform



No Excuses, Many Reasons: A Critique of the Heritage Foundation's "No Excuses" Report



The Capriciousness of High-Stakes Testing



Those Misleading SAT and NAEP Trends: Simpson's Paradox at Work



The Dumbing of America?



Explaining the World



Filet of School Reform, Sauce Diable



Edison's Light Dims: The Rise and Fall and Rise and Fall of H. Christopher Whittle



Playing It Crooked: Media and Political Distortion About the Condition of American Public Schools



The Right's Data-Proof Ideologues



Horace Mann and Today's Mandates: A Talk to the Horace Mann League



The End of Childhood



The Testing-Talent Disconnect



Long-Term Studies of Preschool: The Benefits Far Outweight the Costs