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BL
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700882
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b523071
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The great curriculum debate : : how should we teach reading and math? /\ Tom Loveless, editor.
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| Publication Statement
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Washington, D.C. :: Brookings Institution Press,, c2001.
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viii, 360 p. ;; 24 cm.
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| ISBN
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0815753098 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 0815753101 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780815753094 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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: 9780815753100 (cloth : alk. paper)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Introduction / Tom Loveless -- The roots of the education wars / E.D. Hirsch Jr. -- Mathematics education : the future and the past create a context for today's issues / Gail Burrill -- Research and reform in mathematics education / Michael T. Battista -- A Darwinian perspective on mathematics and instruction / David C. Geary -- The impact of traditional and reform-style practices on student mathematics achievement / Roger Shouse -- Beyond curriculum wars : content and understanding in mathematics / Adam Gamoran -- Good intentions are not enough / Richard Askey -- A tale of two math reforms : the politics of the new math and the NCTM standards / Tom Loveless -- Its time to stop the war / Diane Ravitch -- Preventing reading difficulties in young children : precursors and fallout / Catherine E. Snow -- Contemporary reading instruction / Margaret Moustafa -- Does state and federal reading policymaking matter? / Richard L. Allington -- The politics of the reading wars / William Lowe Boyd and Douglas E. Mitchell.
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| Abstract
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Since the early twentieth century, American educators have been engaged in a heated debate over what schools shoudl teach and how they should teach it. The partisans--"education progressives" and "education traditionalists"--have usually kept their disagreements within the walls of the nation's schools of education. Periodically, however, arguments have erupted that have generated headlines and attracted public attention, making clear the potential for bitterness and rancor in education politics. In the 1990s, progressives and traditionalists squared off in a dispute over reading and mathematics. Arguments over how best to teach these two subjects are detailed in this book. The book includes contributions from distinguished scholars from both sides of the debate, as well as influential nonpartisans.
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Curriculum planning-- United States.
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Education-- Curricula-- United States.
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Mathematics-- Study and teaching-- United States.
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Reading-- United States.
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| LC Classification
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LB1570.G72 2001
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Loveless, Tom,1954-
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