Letters to the Next President

by Glickman, Carl D.

• ISBN13: 9780807744277
• ISBN10: 0807744271
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-02-01
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

Presents a collection of letters by parents, students, teachers, elected officials, scholars, and school reformers on ways to improve schools and public education.

Author Biography

Carl Glickman is the Roy F. and Joann Cole Mitte Endowed Chair in School Improvement at Texas State University-San Marcos and was formerly University Professor of Education, The University of Georgia

Table of Contents

Prologue: Where Do We Start to Sweep?	xi
Bill Cosby
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: Straight Talk ...	1	(8)
Carl Glickman
Part One Schools for All
Journey to a New Life	9	(5)
Rosa Fernandez
Helping Me to Raise My Hand	14	(4)
Vance Rawles
Creating Schools We Can Trust	18	(9)
Deborah Meier
If We Had the Will to See It Happen	27	(8)
Asa G. Hilliard III
Getting Our Responsibilities Right	35	(8)
Sophie Sa
It's Past Time to Fund What We Mandate	43	(4)
Jim Jeffords
Financing America's Future---How Money Counts	47	(7)
William J. Mathis
Why We Need Public Education	54	(9)
John I. Goodlad
Part Two Learning for All
Broken Roads and The Great Mother Earth	63	(7)
Derrick Attakai
Evalena Joey
Britta Mitchell
Melody Riggs
Manuel Thompson
Mark Sorensen
In Struggle and Hope	70	(7)
Lisa Delpit
Eight Million Voices	77	(8)
Rachel Tompkins
How Our High School Makes a Difference	85	(9)
George Wood
Putting the Arts Back in America's ABC's	94	(6)
Reynold Levy
When Does $1.00 Equal $7.00?	100	(6)
Lilian Katz
What They Do with the Other 73 Percent of Their Time	106	(7)
Louis B. Casagrande
Part Three Teaching for All
My Students, My School	113	(7)
Karen Hale Hankins
Teaching Darius to Dream	120	(7)
Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
Why We Stay	127	(7)
Jane Butters
The Gap Between What We Say and What We Do	134	(7)
Arturo Pacheco
Revolving Doors and Leaky Buckets	141	(10)
Richard Ingersoll
Part Four Standards for All
Choking the Life Out of Classrooms	151	(7)
Sylvia Bruni
What My Students Need to Know	158	(8)
Edward C. Montgomery
The No-Win Accountability Game	166	(8)
W. James Popham
Going Beyond the Slogans and Rhetoric	174	(10)
Pedro Noguera
``. . . And Equal Education for All''	184	(9)
Jeannie Oakes
Martin Lipton
A President that ``Gets It''	193	(8)
Thomas Sobol
Part Five Education for All
The Civic Mission of Schools	201	(6)
John Glenn
Leslie F. Hergert
What We All Want for Each of Our Children	207	(4)
Theodore R. Sizer
Postcards from America	211	(12)
Michelle Fine
April Burns
Maria Elena Torre
Learning to Come Alive	223	(5)
Maxine Greene
Voices Closest to the Ones We Love	228	(5)
Ken Rolling
Sandra Halladey
A Nation of Learners	233	(6)
Pam Solo
Conclusion: Schools that Work for All Children	239	(16)
Linda Darling-Hammond
Epilogue: If We Are Not for Our Children, Who Are We for?	255	(6)
Paul Wellstone
About the Editor and Contributors	261