Class Warfare Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence

Name: Class Warfare Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence
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ISBN: 9781893554535

ISBN-10: 1893554538

ISBN-13: 9781893554535

Edition: 2002

Authors: J. Martin Rochester

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This book offers a first-hand account of the Great American Education War being waged from coast to coast, including the reading wars, maths wars, testing wars, and other schoolyard scuffles reported almost daily by the nation's media. Martin Rochester takes the reader on a field trip that begins with his own upper-middle class suburban school district in St Louis and then moves on to inner-city locales and some of the best private schools, in showing how 'pack pedagogy' has steamrollered parent resistance in promoting disasters such as whole-language, fuzzy maths, multiple intelligence theory, teacher-as-coach, the therapeutic classroom, and all the other latest fads found in today's…

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Encounter Books
Publication date: 12/1/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 242
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English




How I Became a Soldier in the Great American Education War



What's Nutty About Contemporary K--12 Education, in a Nutshell



For Whom the School Bell Tolls: The Clash Between Excellence and Equity



Are the Three Stooges Really Geniuses in Disguise?



The Therapeutic Classroom



Basic Training in the Three R's



The Teacher as Coach



A Modest Proposal for a Cease-Fire


Notes


Index