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Letters to the next president : what we can do about the real crisis in public education
- Title
- Letters to the next president : what we can do about the real crisis in public education / edited by Carl Glickman ; prologue by Bill Cosby.
- Publication
- New York : Teachers College Press, ©2004.
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Glickman, Carl D.
- Description
- xvi, 272 pages : illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- The letters in this volume reflect citizens' views on the strengths and weaknesses of public education in America, including what to change about the system and what should stay the same.
- Subject
- Contents
- Prologue: Where do we start to sweep? / Bill Cosby -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Straight talk ... / Carl Glickman -- I: Schools for all -- Journey to a new life / Rosa Fernández -- Helping me to raise my hand / Vance Rawles -- Creating schools we can trust / Deborah Meier -- If we had the will to see it happen / Asa G. Hilliard III -- Getting our responsibilities right / Sophie Sa -- It's past time to fund what we mandate / U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords -- Financing America's future--how money counts / William J. Mathis -- Why we need public education / John I. Goodlad -- II: Learning for all -- Broken roads and the great mother earth / Derrick Attakai [and others] -- In struggle and hope / Lisa Delpit -- Eight million voices / Rachel Tompkins -- How our high school makes a difference / George Wood -- Putting the arts back in America's ABC's / Reynold Levy -- When does $1.00 equal $7.00? / Lilian Katz -- What they do with the other 73 percent of their time / Louis B. Casagrande -- III: Teaching for all -- My students, my school / Karen Hale Hankins -- Teaching Darius to dream / Jacqueline Jordan Irvine -- Why we stay / Jane Butters -- The gap between what we say and what we do / Arturo Pacheco -- Revolving doors and leaky buckets / Richard Ingersoll -- IV: Standards for all -- Choking the life out of classrooms / Sylvia Bruni -- What my students need to know / Edward C. Montgomery -- The no-win accountability game / W. James Popham -- Going beyond the slogans and rhetoric / Pedro Noguera -- " ... And equal education for all" / Jeannie Oakes and Martin Lipton -- A president that "gets it" / Thomas Sobol -- V: Education for all -- The civic mission of schools / U.S. Senator John Glenn and Leslie F. Hergert -- What we all want for each of out children / Theodore R. Sizer -- Postcards from America / Michelle Fine, April Burns, and María Elena Torre -- Learning to come alive / Maxine Greene -- Voices closed to the ones we love / Ken Rolling and Sandra Halladey -- A nation of learners / Pam Solo -- Schools that work for all children / Linda Darling-Hammond -- If we are not for our children, who are we for? / The late U.S. Senator Paul Wellstone.
- ISBN
- 0807744271
- 9780807744277
- LCCN
- 2003066279
- OCLC
- ocm53145444
- 53145444
- SCSB-8891177
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library