HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
Subjects
Educational change -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Education -- United States -- Finance -- Juvenile literature.
Educational tests and measurements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Educational evaluation -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Browse Catalog
by title:
School reform / Noël...
MARC Display
School reform / Noël Merino, book editor.
Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning, c2015.
Subjects
Educational change -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Education -- United States -- Finance -- Juvenile literature.
Educational tests and measurements -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
Educational evaluation -- United States -- Juvenile literature.
ISBN:
9780737772869
0737772867
9780737772876 (paperback)
0737772875 (paperback)
Series:
Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Description:
216 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
What policies should guide school reform? The Common Core state standards are good for education / Council of Chief State School Officers -- Why Common Core isn't the answer / Marion Brady -- Federal spending on education should be limited / Lindsey M. Burke -- Government spending on education needs to be more equitable / Marin Gjaja, J. Puckett, and Matt Ryder -- Teachers' unions should be eliminated / Richard A. Epstein -- Teachers' unions are a positive force for education / Amy B. Dean -- How should students, teachers, and schools be evaluated? Standardized testing is harming student learning / Mary Elizabeth Williams -- Standardized testing is a good way to measure student learning / Herbert J. Walberg -- Disappearing act : end the testing fixation before it erases more meaningful education / Virginia Myers -- Evaluating teachers by student test scores can be arbitrary / Molly Rusk -- Students should evaluate their teachers / Amanda Ripley -- What role should school choice play in school reform? School vouchers are a good way to promote school choice / Casey Given -- Winning the war on charter schools / Reihan Salam -- Charter schools are a bad idea / Diane Ravitch -- Why school choice fails / Natalie Hopkinson -- The entire public school system should be abolished / C. Bradley Thompson -- Should curriculum content in schools be reformed? Math has to be at least a little boring / Konstantin Kakaes -- How much math do we really need? / G.V. Ramanathan -- Teachers should have the freedom to teach critiques of evolution / John W. Whitehead -- Schools should teach about religion / Mark Fowler and Marisa Fasciano -- Allowing schools to teach about religion is dangerous / Kevin Ryan.
Requests:
0
Summary:
This collection of articles pro and con on school reform debates the policies that should guide reform; how students, teachers, and schools should be evaluated; the role of school choice in reform; and whether curriculum content should be reformed.
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Ewa Beach P/S Library
YA -- Nonfiction
370.973 Sc
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Hawaii State Library
YA -- Nonfiction
370.973 Sc
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.0
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.