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9780817995324

What's Gone Wrong in America's Classrooms

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  • ISBN13:

    9780817995324

  • ISBN10:

    0817995323

  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 1998-07-01
  • Publisher: Hoover Institution Press

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Summary

These essays identify key failures in modern American education and illuminate some ways in which those in the teaching profession—and their students—can achieve higher levels of performance, making the case for content-rich education and explicit teaching.

Table of Contents

Foreword vii(2)
John Raisian
Introduction ix
Williamson M. Evers
From Progressive Education to Discovery Learning
1(22)
Williamson M. Evers
What Is Wrong with American Education?
23(26)
Bonnie Grossen
Reading: A Research-Based Approach
49(42)
Jack M. Fletcher
G. Reid Lyon
Preventing Failure in Early Reading Programs: A Summary of Research and Instructional Best Practice
91(26)
Bill Honig
Spelling and Language Structure: An Essential Foundation for Literacy
117(20)
Louisa Cook Moats
Mathematics Achievement: First in the World by the Year 2000?
137(18)
Harold W. Stevenson
Measurement and Reform
155(10)
Maureen DiMarco
Research-Based Education Policy
165(14)
E.D. Hirsch Jr.
Appendix: Conference Agenda 179(2)
Contributors 181(4)
Index 185

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