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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Will standards save public education? Boston : Beacon Press, c2000 (OCoLC)606289120 Online version: Will standards save public education? Boston : Beacon Press, c2000 (OCoLC)607855908 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Deborah Meier; Joshua Cohen; Joel Rogers |
| ISBN: | 0807004413 9780807004418 |
| OCLC Number: | 42980303 |
| Description: | xvi, 90 p. ; 21 cm. |
| Contents: | Educating a democracy / Deborah Meier -- No excuses / Abigail Thernstrom -- Making a difference / Bob Chase -- Expert opinion / Gary B. Nash -- Habits of mind / Linda Nathan -- Case for standards / Richard J. Murnane -- Standards fraud / William Ayers -- Sense of place / Theodore Sizer -- Reply / Deborah Meier. |
| Series Title: | New democracy forum. |
| Other Titles: | Boston review (Cambridge, Mass. : 1982) |
| Responsibility: | [compiled by] Deborah Meier ; foreword by Jonathan Kozol ; edited by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers for The Boston Review. |
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Abstract:
"Deborah Meier offers a fresh take on standardized tests. While others have criticized standards and what they measure. Meier rejects the very idea of a centralized authority that dictates how and what teachers teach. Standardization, she argues, prevents citizens - including teachers - from emerging as thoughtful, responsible adults, seriously engaged with shaping their own schools, classrooms, and communities. As a result, young people can't learn from them how to be thoughtful, responsible adults and good citizens, the primary goal of public education in a democracy."--BOOK JACKET.
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