For those wanting tolearn about American education I am going to suggest a few books occassionally. INSIDE AMERICAN EDUCATION by Thomas Sowell An indictment of the American educational system criticizes the fact that the system has discarded the traditional goals of transmitting knowledge and fostering cognitive skills in favor of building self-esteem and promoting social harmony. HIGH STAKES: Poverty, Testing, and Failure in American Schools by Dale D & Bonnie Johnson, High Stakes brings the voices of students and teachers to our national debates over school accountability and educational reform. Recounting the experiences of two classrooms during one academic year, the book offers a critical exploration of excessive state-mandated monitoring, high-stakes testing pressures, and inequities in public school funding that impede the instructional work of teachers, especially those who serve children of poorer families. NO EXCUSES: CLOSING THE RACIAL GAP IN LEARNING by Abigail & Stephen Thernstrom No Excuses marshals facts to examine the depth of the problem, the inadequacy of conventional explanations, and the limited impact of Title I, Head Start, and other familiar reforms. Its message, however, is one of hope: Scattered across the country are excellent schools getting terrific results with high-needs kids. These rare schools share a distinctive vision of what great schooling looks like and are free of many of the constraints that compromise education in traditional public schools. THE SCHOOLS WE NEED AND WHY WE DONT HAVE THEM by ED Hirsch, Jr. For over fifty years, American schools have operated under the assumption that challenging children academically is unnatural for them, that teachers do not need to know the subjects they teach, that the learning process should be emphasized over the facts taught. All of this is tragically wrong. Renowned educator and author E. D. Hirsch, Jr., argues that, by disdaining content-based curricula while favoring abstract--and discredited--theories of how a child learns, the ideas uniformly taught by our schools have done terrible harm to Americas students. Instead of preparing our children for the highly competitive, information-based economy in which we now live, our schools practices have severely curtailed their ability, and desire, to learn CULTURAL LITERACY WHAT EVERY AMERICAN NEEDS TO KNOW by E D Hirsch, JR. In this forceful manifesto, Hirsch argues that children in the U.S. are being deprived of the basic knowledge that would enable them to function in contemporary society. Includes 5,000 essential facts to know. More recommendations to come
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