Annual Editions: Education 06/07

by Schultz, Fred

• ISBN13: 9780073545806
• ISBN10: 0073545805
• Edition: 33rd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-09-30
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Dushkin

Summary

This thirty-third edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: EDUCATION provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor's resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.dushkin.com/online.

Table of Contents

Preface	iv
Topic Guide	xii
Internet References	xv
UNIT 1 How Others See Us and How We See Ourselves
Unit Overview	xviii
The Biology of Risk Taking	3	(4)
Lisa F. Price
Parents Behaving Badly	7	(6)
Nancy Gibbs
Metaphors of Hope	13	(4)
Mimi Brodsky Chenfeld
Pell Grants Vs. Advanced Placement	17	(2)
Kirk A. Johnson
How Smart Is AP?	19	(2)
Claudia Wallis
Carolina A. Miranda
Sobriety Tests Are Becoming Part of the School Day	21	(2)
Patrick O'Gilfoil Healy
Spinning the Message on NCLB	23	(2)
Anne C. Lewis
Choice Struggles On	25	(2)
Clint Bolick
The 36th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward the Public Schools	27	(14)
Lowell C. Rose
Alec M. Gallup
UNIT 2 Rethinking and Changing the Educative Effort
Unit Overview	38	(3)
Tradeoffs, Societal Values, and School Reform	41	(6)
Iris C. Rotberg
Teaching Against Idiocy	47	(6)
Walter C. Parker
School Accountability: An Alternative to Testing	53	(5)
Ken Jones
Distance Education in High Schools	58	(7)
Davison M. Mupinga
UNIT 3 Striving for Excellence: The Drive for Quality
Unit Overview	62	(3)
How Schools Sustain Success	65	(4)
Valerie Chrisman
A Case for School Connectedness	69	(3)
Robert W. Blum
No Child Left Behind: The Illusion of School Choice	72	(4)
Lisa Snell
Charters ``Yes!'' Vouchers ``No!''	76	(7)
Joe Nathan
Intuitive Test Theory	83	(8)
Henry I. Braun
Robert Mislevy
No Flower Shall Wither; or, Horticulture in the Kingdom of the Frogs	91	(2)
Gary K. Clabaugh
Why Students Think They Understand---When They Don't	93	(8)
Daniel T. Willingham
UNIT 4 Morality and Values in Education
Unit Overview	98	(3)
Seven Worlds of Moral Education	101	(8)
Pamela Bolotin Joseph
Sara Efron
Pathways to Reform: Start with Values	109	(5)
David J. Ferrero
The Employment of Ethical Decision-Making Frameworks in Educational Change	114	(2)
Raymond A. Horn Jr.
The Missing Virtue: Lessons From Dodge Ball & Aristotle	116	(5)
Gordon Marino
UNIT 5 Managing Life in Classrooms
Unit Overview	118	(3)
The Key to Classroom Management	121	(5)
Robert J. Marzano
Jana S. Marzano
Reach Them to Teach Them	126	(4)
Carol Ann Tomlinson
Kristina Doubet
Dealing with Rumors, Secrets, and Lies: Tools of Aggression for Middle School Girls	130	(7)
Betsy Lane
Heading Off Disruptive Behavior	137	(11)
Hill M. Walker
Elizabeth Ramsey
Frank M. Gresham
True Blue	148	(5)
M. Christine Mattise
UNIT 6 Cultural Diversity and Schooling
Unit Overview	150	(3)
Brown at 50, ABA Journal, April 2004	153	(2)
Learning to Teach in Urban Settings	155	(5)
Valerie Duarte
Thomas Reed
Challenging Assumptions About the Achievement Gap	160	(4)
Al Ramirez
Dick Carpenter
The Challenge of Diversity and Choice	164	(6)
Charles Glenn
UNIT 7 Serving Special Needs and Concerns
Unit Overview	168	(2)
Rethinking Inclusion: Schoolwide Applications	170	(7)
Wayne Sailor
Blair Roger
Self-Efficacy: A Key to Improving the Motivation of Struggling Learners	177	(9)
Howard Margolis
Patrick McCabe
Vouchers For Parents: New Forms of Education Funding	186	(7)
Lamar Alexander
UNIT 8 The Profession of Teaching Today
Unit Overview	190	(3)
First-Year Teaching Assignments: A Descriptive Analysis	193	(6)
Byllie D'Amato Andrews
Robert J. Quinn
Nuturing Passionate Teachers: Making Our Work Transparent	199	(4)
Randall Wisehart
Becoming a Teacher as a Hero's Journey: Using Metaphor in Preservice Teacher Education	203	(11)
Lisa S. Goldstein
UNIT 9 For Vision and Hope: Alternative Visions of Reality
Unit Overview	212	(2)
Building a Community of Hope	214	(4)
Thomas J. Sergiovanni
Mission and Vision in Education	218	(3)
Edward G. Rozycki
Beyond the Book	221	(6)
Parker Rossman
An Emerging Culture	227	(6)
Christopher Bamford
Eric Utne
Index	233	(3)
Test Your Knowledge Form	236	(1)
Article Rating Form	237