The Best Commentary and Controversy in American Education

By the Editors of Education Week

• Foreword by Jay Mathews



• Preface



• Part One: The Art of Teaching
  • Epitaph for an English Teacher — Howard Good (2000)
  • “Too Smart to Be a Teacher” — James R. Delisle (1995)
  • No More Silver Bullets: Let's Fix Teacher Education — Vartan Gregorian (2004)
  • Increase Class Size and Pay Teachers More — Saul Cooperman (2005)


• Part Two: Equity and Social Justice
  • The National Responsibility for Equality of Educational Opportunity — John Hope Franklin (1984)
  • Census 2000 Is Coming! — Harold Hodgkinson (1999)
  • The Legacy of All Deliberate Speed — Pedro Noguera & Robert Cohen (2004)
  • Racism Explained to My White Daughter — Patricia M. Cooper (2005)


• Part Three: Testing Well, Testing Early
  • By All Measures: Coming to Terms on World-Class Standards — Albert Shanker (1992)
  • By All Measures: “Just Another False Chase” — Deborah Meier (1992)
  • Is There a Standard for Meeting Standards? — Lewis A. Rhodes (1993)
  • The Need for Anti-Babel Standards — Howard Gardner (1994)
  • Confusing Harder with Better — Alfie Kohn (1999)
  • The Tests We Need — E. D. Hirsch (2000)
  • Multiple Measures — Ron Wolk (2004)


• Part Four: Curriculum in the Classroom
  • Curriculum Mood Swings — Anne Wescott Dodd (1993)
  • Why Ignore the Forms of Art — Maxine Greene (1997)
  • Rescue the Wonder of the Printed Page — Joy Hakim (2001)
  • In Defense of Whimsy — Jane Dimyan-Ehrenfeld (2002)


• Part Five: Technology and Learning
  • Black to the Future — Henry Louis Gates (2000)
  • The Technology Puzzle — Larry Cuban (1999)
  • Seeking Edutopia — Milton Chen (2001)
  • Preparing Students for Work in a Computer-Filled Economy — Frank Levy & Richard J. Murnane (2004)


• Part Six: Democracy and Virtue
  • Teaching Integrity: The Boundaries of Moral Education — Edwin J. Delattre (1990)
  • Helping Children with Scary News--Written in 1991 in Response to the Persian Gulf War — Fred Rogers & Hedda Bluestone Sharapan (1991)
  • Teaching the “Other Half” of Democracy’s Story — Ralph Nader (1993)
  • Now Is the Time to Teach Democracy — Diane Ravitch (2001)
  • Teaching for Wisdom in Our Schools — Robert Sternberg (2--2)


• Part Seven: Change and Reform
  • A Nation in Wait — John I. Goodlad (2003)
  • Questioning Cliches of Education Reform — Chester E. Finn (1989)
  • On Lame Horses and Tortoises — Theodore R. Sizer (1997)
  • Is the Comprehensive High School Doomed — W. Norton Grubb & Marvin Lazerson (2004)
  • Seek Simplicity . . . and Distrust It — Lee S. Shulman (2005)


• Part Eight: Charters and Choice
  • Creating an Entrepreneurial School System — Marc S. Tucker (1989)
  • Make Public Schools More Like Private — Adam Urbanski (1996)
  • Charter Schools: Escape or Reform — Marc Dean Millot, Paul T. Hill, & Robin Lake (1996)
  • For-Profit Schooling: Where’s the Public Good — Linda Darling-Hammond (1992)
  • Competing for Our Clients — Dorothy Rich (1999)


• Part Nine: Inspiring Leadership
  • Schools Must Reconnect Pupils, Cultivate Leadership for Change — Bill Clinton (1986)
  • Old Questions Will Produce Old Answers to the Problem of Educational Leadership — Allen Berger (1982)
  • Pooling Our Resources — Suzanne Tingley (1996)
  • The Principalship: Looking for Leaders in a Time of Change — Mildred Collins Pierce & Leslie T. Fenwick (2000)

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