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New! Reading Educational Research: How to Avoid Getting Statistically Snookered
Gerald W. Bracey
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Holding Values: What We Mean by Progressive Education
Edited by Brenda S. Engel, Anne C. Martin
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| The essays in Holding Values together constitute both a critique of current policies in education and a clear statement of an alternative vision of progressive education practice. |
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Setting the Record Straight: Responses to Misconceptions About Public Education in the U.S.
Second Edition
Gerald W. Bracey
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| The author goes toe-to-toe with the opponents of quality public education. |
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In Defense of Our Children: When Politics, Profit, and Education Collide
Elaine M. Garan
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| Dr. Elaine Garan provides an easy-to-read, question-and-answer format to help readers think through the vital issues in education and parenting. |
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Confronting Racism, Poverty, and Power: Classroom Strategies to Change the World
Catherine Compton-Lilly
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| These are among the many myths about poor and diverse families. Catherine Compton-Lilly refutes them with the best data available. |
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On the Death of Childhood and the Destruction of Public Schools: The Folly of Today's Education Policies and Practices
Gerald W. Bracey
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| No matter what he's called, Gerald Bracey IS public schools' best defender. And in this book, he uses his considerable writing and research skills on their behalf. |
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Unspeakable Acts, Unnatural Practices: Flaws and Fallacies in Scientific Reading Instruction
Frank Smith
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| Smith dismantles the shoddy science undergirding direct, intensive, and early phonics training. |
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Testing Is Not Teaching: What Should Count in Education
Donald H. Graves
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| In the rush to implement high-stakes testing, narrow standards, and top-down management of public education, the interests of two key stakeholders have been ignored: students and teachers. Not anymore. |
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Big Brother and the National Reading Curriculum: How Ideology Trumped Evidence
Edited by Richard Allington
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| In this timely and important book, nationally-recognized reading researcher Richard Allington tracks and questions the 30-year campaign that has focused on testing, accountability, and federalization of education. |
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Questions You Should Ask About Charter Schools and Vouchers
Seymour B. Sarason
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| Practicing educators are surprisingly ill informed about the practical problems charter schools and voucher policies face in implementation. |
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The Case Against Standardized Testing: Raising the Scores, Ruining the Schools
Alfie Kohn
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| Kohn's central message is that standardized tests are "not a force of nature but a force of politics—and political decisions can be questioned, challenged, and ultimately reversed." |
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One Size Fits Few: The Folly of Educational Standards
Susan Ohanian
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| One Size Fits Few is a sharp, pointed pin with which to deflate the overblown pro-Standards movement. |
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