Letters to the Next President

by Glickman, Carl

• ISBN13: 9780807748091
• ISBN10: 0807748099
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Teachers College Pr

Summary

This timely collection includes more than 40 letters by top education experts, elected officials, business and community leaders, teachers, principals, elementary and secondary students, and parents.

Table of Contents

Note on the 2008 Election Edition	p. xi
Foreword: Where Do We Start to Sweep?	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xvii
Introduction	p. 1
Schools for All
Journey to a New Life	p. 9
Helping Me to Raise My Hand	p. 14
Creating Schools We Can Trust	p. 18
If We Had the Will to See It Happen	p. 27
Getting Our Responsibilities Right	p. 35
It's Past Time to Fund What We Mandate	p. 43
Financing America's Future-How Money Counts	p. 47
Why We Need Public Education	p. 54
Learning for All
Broken Roads and the Great Mother Earth	p. 63
In Struggle and Hope	p. 70
Nine Million Voices	p. 77
How Our High School Makes a Difference	p. 85
Putting the Arts Back in America's ABC's	p. 94
When Does $1.00 Equal $7.00?	p. 100
What They Do With the Other 73 Percent of Their Time	p. 106
Teaching for All
My Students, My School	p. 113
Teaching Darius to Dream	p. 120
Why We Continue to Stay	p. 127
The Gap Between What We Say and What We Do	p. 134
Revolving Doors and Leaky Buckets	p. 141
Standards for All
Choking the Life Out of Classrooms	p. 151
What My Students Need to Know	p. 158
The No-Win Accountability Game	p. 166
Going Beyond the Slogans and Rhetoric	p. 174
"...And Equal Education for All"	p. 184
A President Who "Gets It"	p. 193
Education for All
The Civic Mission of Schools	p. 201
What We All Want for Each of Our Children	p. 207
Postcards from America	p. 211
Learning to Come Alive	p. 223
Voices Closest to the Ones We Love	p. 228
A Nation of Learners	p. 233
Crafting Legislation	p. 239
Conclusion: Schools That Work for All Children	p. 243
Organizations for Parents, Educators, and Activists	p. 259
Organizational Statement on the No Child Left Behind Act	p. 261
About the Editor and Contributors	p. 267
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