Author: John G. HerlihyPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The Child-centered School
Author: Harold Ordway RuggPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
The Textbook Controversy
Author: John G. HerlihyPublisher: Praeger
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 176
Book Description
The history of the textbook controversy
Author: Irie YoshimasaTextbook Controversy
Author: Miriam AmsterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Textbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
The Politics of Textbook Controversy
Author: Anita Olive OliverTextbook Controversy and Social Perspective
Author: Marilyn More SwearingenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Pressure groups
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
Impressions
Author: Debbie CarterPublisher: University of Alaska Press
ISBN: 9781877962301
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 29
Book Description
Studied Ignorance
Author: Herbert N. FoerstelPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
Despite concerted efforts from our educators, administrators, and government, American education continues to struggle. The author of this work argues that the decline can be traced to censored curricula, inaccurate textbooks, test-driven evaluations, and increasing poverty among the student population. Under the definition of "failure" specified in the No Child Left Behind Act, more than 80 percent of American schools could currently be labeled as failing, while the quality of American education overall and our students' performance continue to rank unfavorably against international competition. This book examines the crisis in American education and identifies how weaknesses in textbooks, teaching, and testing have created the crisis facing American education—a topic that dramatically affects students, teachers, and parents. Author Herbert N. Foerstel exposes the textbook "wars" that began a century ago and rage on with even more venom today. His book traces the legal basis for curricular censorship that dates back 75 years; identifies the bizarre process by which shoddy textbooks have been written, published, and come to be widely accepted; and documents the disastrous effect that reliance on these materials has had on the curriculum. Foerstel also supplies a careful assessment of the current political debate over education reform and of the proposed solutions to these problems.
Study of Values and Attitudes in a Textbook Controversy in Kanawha County, West Virginia
Author: Don J. GoodePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 422
Book Description
Anatomy of a Book Controversy
Author: Wayne HomstadPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
"A case study that describes one school district's attempt to answer two questions: What should students read? Who should decide what students read? The answers to these questions, how those answers were determined, and an examination of the substance and structure of the answers reveal fundamental principles at work when a community institution attempts to resolve a basic educational problem. Such an examination also reveals why book controversies in particular are difficult to resolve. The book that was at the heart of this controversy is Go Ask Alice." --Introduction.