Misguided Education Reform

Nancy E. Bailey

doi:10.5771/9781475803587

Summary

Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America’s public school students. Early childhood education, testing, reading, special education, discipline, loss of the arts, and school facilities, are all areas experiencing reform in the wrong direction. This book says “no” to the reforms that fail, and challenges Americans to address the real student needs that will fix public schools and make America strong.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2013
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-0356-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-0358-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 170
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 4
1. The Assault on Early Childhood No access
2. The Importance of Past Research No access
3. Kindergarten—The Children’s Garden No access
4. The Common Core State Standards for Kindergarten No access
5. Head Start’s Struggle No access
6. Privatizing Head Start No access
7. Universal Preschool No access
8. What is a Good Preschool? No access
9. The Elimination of Recess No access
10. Supporting Good Early-Childhood Education No access
11. Notes No access
1. The Effects of High-Stakes Testing on Students No access
2. Ignoring Instead of Celebrating Differences No access
3. Blaming Public Schools No access
4. Retention No access
5. Lowering Class Size Is a Better Solution No access
6. High School and General Testing Controversy No access
7. Students with Disabilities, Testing and High School Diplomas No access
8. High-Stakes Cheating—Students No access
9. High-Stakes Cheating—Adults No access
10. Excuses No access
11. Common Core State Standards No access
12. Talking Pineapples and Testing Pushback No access
13. Testing to Benefit Students—Formative Assessment No access
14. Parent and Teacher Activism Concerning Tests No access
15. Notes No access
1. The Problems with Reading Instruction No access
2. The History of Reading, Phonics, and Whole Language No access
3. Flawed Reading Recommendations No access
4. Reading First: Conflict of Interests and Unproven Science No access
5. Getting a Reading First Grant No access
6. Dr. Cupp’s Readers and Other Reading Programs No access
7. What Happened to Reading First? No access
8. Antiquated School Libraries or No Libraries at All No access
9. Teaching Children to Love Reading No access
10. Notes No access
1. The Cost of Education for All No access
2. Burton Blatt’s Book and Special Education History No access
3. The Regular Education Initiative or Getting Rid of Special Education No access
4. The Reauthorizations of Public Law 94-142 No access
5. The Problem with Inclusion—UDL, Technology, RTI, and DIBELS No access
6. Students, Testing, and Cognitive Disabilities No access
7. Privatizing Special Education No access
8. Giftedness Ignored No access
9. The Significance of Special Olympics No access
10. Notes No access
1. Student Behavior in Public Schools No access
2. Poverty and Discipline in Urban Schools No access
3. Zero Tolerance No access
4. Corporal Punishment No access
5. Teaching Students with Problem Behavior No access
6. School Resource Officers No access
7. Student Surveillance No access
8. Uniforms—Dressing Alike—in a Democracy No access
9. The School Counselor’s Role No access
10. Schools That Care About Students No access
11. Notes No access
1. Stealing the Arts from Children—Especially the Poor No access
2. Testing and the Arts No access
3. Where The Arts Have Been Stolen No access
4. How the Arts Improve Scores in Other Subjects No access
5. Student Artists of All Backgrounds No access
6. The Importance of Certified Art Teachers No access
7. The Arts Job Market and Saving the Arts in Our Public Schools No access
8. Notes No access
1. Poor School Facilities No access
2. Poor Rural and Native American Schools No access
3. High Achievers and Ramshackle Schools No access
4. Dangerous and Toxic Schools No access
5. The Costs of Poorly Maintained Schools No access
6. Schools—Earthquakes and Tornadoes No access
7. Overcrowded Schools No access
8. The Importance of School Facilities to Achievement No access
9. Public Schools or Charter Schools Facility Funding? No access
10. Supporting Good School Facilities for All Children No access
11. Notes No access
References No access Pages 143 - 152
Index No access Pages 153 - 170