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| Foreword | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| From Ivory Tower to White Lightning Road: Launching a Teaching Career | |
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| Background | |
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| School Accountability | |
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| College of Education Hijinks | |
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| People Who Care | |
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| The Town of Redbud | |
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| Getting Certified, Tested for Drugs, and Fingerprinted | |
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| A Reading Program Promo | |
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| Hayricks and Helicopters: The Realities of an Underfunded School | |
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| A Tour of Redbud | |
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| Rules Teachers Must Follow | |
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| Workshops and Meetings | |
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| September: The Children We Teach | |
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| The Daily Routine | |
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| Heat Wave | |
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| Drawings of Rats | |
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| Benchmarks and Codes | |
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| Teaching to the Test | |
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| Working Poor | |
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| The Number One Problem Today | |
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| How Teachers Spend Sundays | |
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| Getting Students' Attention | |
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| Wasting Instructional Time | |
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| Monitoring Teachers | |
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| The Superintendent's Bonus | |
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| Grades and Motivation | |
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| Accountability Profiteers | |
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| Learning from My Pupils | |
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| Suspension | |
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| October: Regulating Teaching | |
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| No Money for School Pictures | |
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| "I'm Afraid of the Ku Klux Klan" | |
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| "What Are Gymnastics?" | |
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| Looking for the Quick Fix | |
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| Parent Conferences and Professional Growth Plans | |
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| Learning from the Parents | |
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| Losing Teacher Self-Esteem | |
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| Relentless Interruptions | |
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| Letters to the New Orleans Saints | |
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| Ten More Days of Training | |
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| Planning for the LEAP Test | |
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| Teacher Multitasking | |
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| Drug Awareness | |
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| Children's Thoughts on School Funding | |
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| Another "New" Program | |
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| Inequities in Salaries | |
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| November: Drugs, Poverty, and Test Scores | |
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| "Dad Do All Kinds of Drug" | |
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| A Halloween without Costumes | |
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| Burgeoning Needs and Stagnant Funds | |
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| Students Ponder Politics and the Election | |
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| "When I Get Home She Drunk" | |
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| Hundreds of Objectives in 176 Days | |
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| The Uncertified Teacher | |
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| Taking Action against Testing | |
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| "Teachers Will Be Held Accountable" | |
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| No Time for Talk | |
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| Student Teachers | |
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| The Architect of School Accountability | |
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| December: "Clamp Down" | |
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| Out-of-Touch Officials | |
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| "Things in My Life Goes Bad" | |
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| Lesson Plan Deficiencies | |
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| Too Much Talking in the Lunchroom | |
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| The Generosity of Teachers | |
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| Teaching and Learning in a Cold Building | |
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| "God No I Do Not Wont to Ak Like This" | |
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| Homemade Cards and Small Gifts | |
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| January: Test Preparation--The Pace Quickens | |
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| Still No Heat | |
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| Jelani's Dad | |
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| Rhonda's Dad | |
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| "Three Computers in Every Classroom" | |
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| The Dreams of Children | |
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| Pupils' Advice to Future Teachers | |
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| "That's What Dr. King Wanted" | |
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| Practicing for High-stakes Tests | |
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| Lack of Prior Knowledge | |
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| "I Could Never Teach in This Dirty School" | |
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| The Teachers Are the Experts | |
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| Testing Tension Builds | |
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| Upset Parents | |
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| Art Is Not for Everyone | |
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| Murder on Their Minds | |
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| Why Not Teach in a Prison? | |
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| Pen Pals in Suburbia | |
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| Vouchers--A Hollow Promise | |
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| February: Pep Rallies for Tests | |
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| The Hidden Book | |
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| Test Every Child | |
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| Test Troubles in Texas | |
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| How Poor Schools Get Money | |
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| Professors Who Are Out of Touch | |
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| When Student Teachers Leave | |
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| "I Wish You Pray for Us on the Big LEAP Test" | |
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| The Corporate Bottom Line | |
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| March: Test-Day Traumas | |
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| Security Oaths for Teachers | |
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| A Threat to Redbud | |
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| The Need for Verbal Interaction | |
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| Test Week | |
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| What Is It? | |
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| More Test Security | |
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| Just Filling In the Bubbles | |
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| A $2,000 Raise | |
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| Guarding the Tests | |
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| The Test Inspectors | |
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| No Extra Pay | |
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| How Good Are Your Teachers? | |
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| The Testing Never Ends | |
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| The Missing Test | |
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| Painful Teeth and Soleless Shoes | |
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| Called to the Principal's Office | |
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| Donated Art Supplies Arrive | |
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| The Field Trip | |
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| Fail the Test, Repeat the Grade | |
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| April: Freedom to Teach and Learn | |
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| Closing "Unacceptable" Schools | |
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| The Financial Cost of Testing | |
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| Rich Kids, Poor Kids | |
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| Adding to the Teacher Shortage | |
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| Letters to Illinois | |
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| How Poverty Relates to Test Scores | |
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| Buy This Book | |
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| Teachers Are "Treated Like Peons" | |
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| Observations about Drinking | |
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| End-of-the-Year Paperwork | |
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| Judging the Teachers | |
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| Gun Talk | |
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| May: "I Don't Want to Spend My Time on Paperwork" | |
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| The Writing Contest | |
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| Leaving the Public Schools | |
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| Learning the LEAP Test Results | |
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| Comparing Test Performances | |
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| No Longer "Promoted for Seat Time" | |
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| The Teachers Feel Like Failures | |
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| When 40,000 Fail | |
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| Informing My Pupils | |
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| "Why Are All Those Kids Crying?" | |
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| Why Are Teachers Ignored? | |
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| Living in the Woods | |
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| More Forms | |
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| Who Gets the Credit? | |
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| The Final Week | |
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| Awards Day | |
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| The Children's Wishes | |
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| Sorry--No Test Results | |
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| More Tests on the Horizon | |
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| How Can We Build a Better Future? Recommendations for Policy Change | |
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| What Teachers Need | |
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| The Standards Movement | |
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| Voices of Opposition | |
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| The Silence of Some | |
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| Summary of Our Recommendations | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |
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| About the Authors | |