Author: Memphis City Schools. Board of VisitorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Annual Report of the Board of Visitors of the Memphis City Schools for the Year ...
Author: Memphis City Schools. Board of VisitorsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Public schools
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Annual Report
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 1372
Book Description
Digest of the Charters and Ordinances of the City of Memphis
Author: Memphis (Tenn.).Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Municipal charters
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education
Author: United States. Office of EducationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Opportunity Lost
Author: Marcus D. PohlmannPublisher: Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN: 1572336382
Category : De facto school segregation
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
In Opportunity Lost, Marcus D. Pohlmann examines the troubling issue of why Memphis city school students are underperforming at alarming rates. His provocative interdisciplinary analysis, combining both history and social science, examines the events before and after desegregation, compares a city school to an affluent suburban school to pinpoint imbalances, and offers critical assessments of various educational reforms. In addition to his analysis of the problems, Pohlmann lays out educational reforms that run the gamut from early intervention and parental involvement to increasing teacher compensation, improving time utilization, and more. Pohlmann?s illuminating and original study has wide application for a problem that bedevils inner-city children everywhere and prevents the promise of equality from reaching all of our nation?s citizens. -- Book cover.
Digest of the Charters and Ordinances of the City of Memphis, from 1826 to 1860, Inclusive
Author: Memphis (Tenn.)Testing Wars in the Public Schools
Author: William J. ReesePublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674075692
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 392
Book Description
Written tests to evaluate students were a radical and controversial innovation when American educators began adopting them in the 1800s. Testing quickly became a key factor in the political battles during this period that gave birth to America's modern public school system. William J. Reese offers a richly detailed history of an educational revolution that has so far been only partially told. Single-classroom schools were the norm throughout the United States at the turn of the nineteenth century. Pupils demonstrated their knowledge by rote recitation of lessons and were often assessed according to criteria of behavior and discipline having little to do with academics. Convinced of the inadequacy of this system, the reformer Horace Mann and allies on the Boston School Committee crafted America's first major written exam and administered it as a surprise in local schools in 1845. The embarrassingly poor results became front-page news and led to the first serious consideration of tests as a useful pedagogic tool and objective measure of student achievement. A generation after Mann's experiment, testing had become widespread. Despite critics' ongoing claims that exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children's health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. Testing Wars in the Public Schools puts contemporary battles over scholastic standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the historic successes and limitations of the pencil-and-paper exam.
Report
Author: Tennessee. Dept. of Public InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 390
Book Description
Separately paged appendices accompany some reports.
Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Tennessee, Ending ...
Author: Tennessee. Department of Public InstructionPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Author: Tennessee