Lopsided Schools: Case Method Briefings

Gerard Giordano

doi:10.5771/9781607097884

Summary

Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method and helps the reader to use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present. Some critics have stirred up educators with threats to reduce their budgets or fire them. Others upset them with disconcerting questions. Should parents demand that their children learn speed reading? Should teachers emphasize vocational activities? Should principals train their own successors? Should superintendents award bonuses to teachers? Should employers hire the graduates with the highest scores on standardized tests? Should politicians assume greater responsibility for schooling? Should journalists publicize information about lopsided schools? This book examines these and the numerous other questions that critics posed.

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Bibliographic data

Edition: 1/2011
Copyright year: 2011
ISBN-Print: 978-1-60709-786-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-60709-788-4
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 216
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Tables No access
3. Preface: Lopsided Schools No access
4. Acknowledgment No access
5. Introduction: Are Philosophy, Zen, Cycles, and the Case Method Related? No access
Chapter 01. Is the Case Method Unique? No access Pages 1 - 14
Chapter 02. Do Teachers and Taxi Drivers Face Similar Problems? No access Pages 15 - 32
Chapter 03. Do Educators Copy Food Photographers? No access Pages 33 - 56
Chapter 04. Is Education Like Graffiti? No access Pages 57 - 76
Chapter 05. Do Athletes Become the Best Coaches? No access Pages 77 - 88
Chapter 06. Should Educators Wrangle with Philosophers? No access Pages 89 - 104
Chapter 07. What Motivates Scholars? No access Pages 105 - 116
Chapter 08. Can Politicians Fix the Schools? No access Pages 117 - 132
Chapter 09. Do Critics Offer Helping Hands? No access Pages 133 - 150
Chapter 10. Is Education Like Dieting? No access Pages 151 - 162
References No access Pages 163 - 214
About the Author No access Pages 215 - 216