Fred Schultz

Education 07/08

Herausgeber: Schultz, Fred

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Produktbeschreibung

This thirty-fourth edition of ANNUAL EDITIONS: EDUCATION provides convenient, inexpensive access to current articles selected from the best of the public press. Organizational features include: an annotated listing of selected World Wide Web sites; an annotated table of contents; a topic guide; a general introduction; brief overviews for each section; a topical index; and an instructor's resource guide with testing materials. USING ANNUAL EDITIONS IN THE CLASSROOM is offered as a practical guide for instructors. ANNUAL EDITIONS titles are supported by our student website, www.mhcls.com/online.

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Produktdetails

• Annual Editions: Education
• Verlag: Dushkin Publishing
• 34th edition
• Seitenzahl: 237
• Erscheinungstermin: Oktober 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 273mm x 214mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 576g
• ISBN-13: 9780073516257
• ISBN-10: 0073516252
• Artikelnr.: 21289928

Inhaltsangabe

UNIT 1. How Others See Us and How We See Ourselves
Educational Leadership, April 2005
The author clearly discusses the physiological bases of adolescence. It
is a very important essay on this matter. This article illuminates the
wonders of puberty and explains why educators need to have a positive
outlook on kids in early puberty.
2. Squeeze Play, Glenn Cook, American School Board Journal, January 2006
The author discusses the political pressures on American school board
members. The concept of "local control” of American schools is being
altered in its meaning by pressures from state legislatures, Congress,
and national special interest pressure groups. The author describes the
dilemmas school board members face under these pressures.
3. Democracy's First Step, Kathleen Vail, American School Board Journal,
January 2006
Vail considers the importance of local school board membership in
sparking the public service careers of several prominent American
political leaders. The non-partisan political nature of school board
membership is intended to distance school board elections from party
politics. Reflections by prominent past school board members are
summarized.
4. Social Science and the Citizen, Society, January/February 2006
Here is a summary of issues relating to academic freedom in higher
education regarding the role of social science in citizenship education
. Issues relating to alleged discrimination in searches for new faculty
members are raised.
Time, February 21, 2005
Parents can behave wrongly, and it is thus important that parents and
elders learn to be in communication with educators. There is a need for
understanding between parents and teachers.
The New York Times, March 3, 2005
This article deals with sobriety tests for kids who might come to
school having used alcohol. Basically it describes what school
districts are doing to try to prevent kids from coming to school with
alcohol on them.
7. The 37th Annual Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes
Toward the Public Schools, Lowell C. Rose and Alec M. Gallup, Phi Delta
Kappan, September 2005
This annual poll of the public's attitudes toward the public school
system continues to be a very valuable source of information regarding
the current state of publicly supported education.
UNIT 2. Rethinking and Changing the Educative Effort
8. Dancing Lessons for Elephants: Reforming Ed School Leadership Program,
Jerome T. Murphy, Phi Delta Kappan, March 2006
The author discusses the controversies surrounding the leadership
training programs for school administrators in colleges of education.
He argues that educators must face the more than twenty years of
criticism of school leadership programs that prepare school principals,
superintendents, and other school leaders.
9. Textural Perceptions of School Time and Assessment, Eric D. Turley, Phi
Delta Kappan, February 2006
The issue of how time is conceived in schools is explored here and
related to alternative forms of student assessments (testing). "Team
testing” (or group testing) is defined and explained.
10. The Father of Modern School Reform, Nick Gillespie, Reason, December
2005
This article includes an interview with Milton Friedman whose ideas
regarding how to reform schooling in the 1950s sparked the modern
educational reform movement. He argued for universal school vouchers
decades ago, one of the first (possibly the first) to do so
effectively. Friedman vigorously defends the concept of universal
school vouchers.
11. Friendly Competition, George M. Holmes, Jeff Desimone, and Nicholas G.
Rupp, Education Next, Winter 2006
The authors of this essay deal with the question as to what extent the
existence of charter schools might motivate or cause improvements in
public schools. They discuss the difficulties encountered when
attempting to answer this question accurately. They argue that the
presence of charter school competition increases traditional public
school performance by about 1 percent.
12. Urban and Rural Schools: Overcoming Lingering Obstacles, Paul Theobald,
Phi Delta Kappan, October 2005
The author provides a very good historical summary of the social and
economic background of the development of rural and urban schools in
the history of the United States. He also briefly provides some of the
English background for American schooling. He argues that rural and
urban schools share many of the same problems, yet there is a great
cultural divide between them. Rural and urban educators try to bridge
this divide.
UNIT 3. Striving for Excellence: The Drive for Quality
13. Alternative Approaches to High-Stakes Testing, Leon M. Lederman and Ray
A. Burnstein, Phi Delta Kappan, February 2006
The authors discuss possible alternatives to high-tension individual
classroom assessment that may promote improved student performance.
They recommend better educational technologies in classroom assessment
and keypad-based formative assessment to help students meet new state
and national accountability standards.
14. What Colleges Forget to Teach, Robert P. George, City Journal, Winter
2006
The author contends that colleges should prepare students to understand
better the history of American civilization and not simply to focus on
class, race, and gender issues or differences. He relates the
educational mission of colleges teaching young adults to the broader
cultural and political traditions of the nation. What he argues applies
to the mission of secondary schools and the education of adolescents.
Civic education must be our focus.
15. Boys at Risk: The Gender Achievement Gap, Glenn Cook, American School
Board Journal, April 2006
This is a brief article on the differences in school performance
between boys and girls in the elementary school years. The author
describes what some schools are doing to improve the school performance
of boys and to narrow the gender gap in terms of school achievement.
16. Standardized Students: The Problems with Writing for Tests Instead of
People, Bronwyn T. Williams, Journal of Adolescent & Adult Literacy,
October 2005
The author provides a critique regarding how standardized tests are
used in schools. This author believes that not all forms of literacy
education can be dealt with effectively by standardized accountability
testing. The teaching of writing is used for the justification of the
author's position on this topic.
17. Observer: A Little Ethics Left Behind, Alan Greenblatt, Governing, July
2005
The author discusses the ethical issues that need to be considered to
prevent "cheating” by educators regarding student performance data. The
article is brief yet it raises ethical issues of which we all need to
be aware.
18. Keeping Score, John Cole, American Educator, Spring 2005
Cole provides an argument regarding standardized testing in which he
defends standardized tests as a good thing for educators and students.
The standards on which tests are created need to be appropriate for the
student. He believes Congress "gave the farm away” when it allowed
states to develop their own standards.
UNIT 4. Values, Society, and Education
19. Character and Academics: What Good Schools Do, Jacques S. Benninga et
al., Phi Delta Kappan, February 2006
The authors present a strong case that well-defined and implemented
character education programs should exist along side traditional
academic programs in the schools. Students need to learn about such
values as respect for person, civility, honor, perseverance, and many
others.
20. Patriotism and Education: An Introduction, Joel Westheimer, Phi Delta
Kappan, April 2006
Westheimer contends that every student should learn love of country,
yet he addresses the question of the right of dissent and what students
should know about it. Patriotism represents a complex idea; ho w should
the schools approach it?
21. Patriotism and Accountability: The Role of Educators in the War on
Terrorism, Pedro Noguera and Robby Cohen, Phi Delta Kappan, April 2006
The authors address the idea of patriotism in school. They argue that
students should learn critical reasoning skills, which will enable them
to defend their country when it is right, yet also to be able to think
critically about their country's policies.
22. Should We Teach Patriotism?, Diane Ravitch, Phi Delta Kappan, April
2006
Ravitch reminds us that historically the schools have taught students
about patriotism and responsible citizenship. Thus, the public schools
have historically been responsible with this nation's democratic
ideology.
23. Promoting Altruism in the Classroom, E.H. Mike Robinson III and
Jennifer R. Curry, Childhood Education, Winter 2005/2006
The authors present ideas on how to teach about altruism in educational
settings, especially in classrooms. They raise the question as to how
we can teach students about self-sacrifice, not contingent on reward.
They argue that teachers can be great role models to their students
regarding caring, compassionate behavior toward others.
24. In the End You Are Sure to Succeed: Lincoln on Perseverance, Harold
Holzer, OAH Magazine of History, January 2006
Holzer looks at Abraham Lincoln's ideas on personal perseverance, a
very important value. The author found this anecdote among Lincoln's
private papers.
UNIT 5. Managing Life in Classrooms
25. Welcome to the House System, Daniel G. Green, Educational Leadership,
April 2006
The author describes an interesting case study on how the faculty and
students at a junior high school came up with an idea for improving the
quality of life in their school. It is called the "House System.”
26. Discipline: Responding to Socioeconomic and Racial Differences, Doris
Walker-Dalhouse, Childhood Education, Fall 2005
Walker-Dalhouse discusses reasons for discipline problems in schools.
She relates her essay to issues related to fairness and equity in
relationships between students and teachers. She also addresses racial,
ethical, and social class relationships in classrooms. The article used
Marva Collins's methods of classroom management.
Educational Leadership, April 2005
This article discusses two models, with reference from both, on how to
help students. The author goes on to discuss how teachers can be
respectful and share stories with students.
Middle School Journal, January 2005
The author discusses in very interesting detail how girls and boys will
use lies and rumors to achieve their personal goals in their social
lives, and offers suggestions on how to reach out to students.
UNIT 6. Cultural Diversity and Schooling
29. The Heightened Significance of Brown v. Board of Education in Our Time,
William G. Wraga, Phi Delta Kappan, February 2006
The author discusses the great constitutional ramifications for every
American citizen today from the historic Brown v. Board of Education of
Topeka, Kansas decision by the U.S. Supreme Court in 1954. He reminds
us that the Brown decision also affirmed other important American
civic ideals; he suggests that some of these ideals may now be a
hazard.
30. The Role of Social Foundation in Preparing Teachers for Culturally
Relevant Practice, Ann Marie Ryan, Multicultural Education, Spring 2006
The role of course work in cultural or social foundations of education
in the preparation of teachers is discussed. Such content encourages
teachers to consider "culturally relevant pedagogical teaching styles.”
Possible means by which to implement culturally relevant pedagogy in
the schools are suggested.
31. Tolerance in Teacher Education, Sandy White Watson and Linda Johnston,
Multicultural Education, Spring 2006
Watson and Johnston provide suggestions as to how to help pre-service
teachers become culturally responsive ones. They present the concept of
"microcultures” and suggest teaching young teachers how to become more
aware of multicultural teaching contexts.
32. Dialogue Across Cultures: Teachers' Perceptions About Communication
with Diverse Families, Arti Joshi, Jody Eberly, and Jean Konzal,
Multicultural Education, Winter 2005
The authors discuss issues relating to how teachers' perceptions of
others influence how they communicate with culturally diverse families
. They make suggestions for translating cross-cultural understandings
into practical teaching strategies.
33. African American Boys and the Discipline Gap: Balancing Educator's
Uneven Hand, Carla R. Monroe, Educational Horizons, Winter 2006
Literature on how African American boys interact with teachers is
reviewed, and Monroe takes a critical view of how their teachers
interact with them. The "discipline gap” in the classroom is discussed.
Cultural and racial prejudices are suggested by the author as the cause
of this situation.
34. Grooming Great Urban Teachers, Michèle Foster, Jeffrey Lewis, and Laura
Onafowora, Educational Leadership, March 2005
The authors report on specific teaching goals and classroom
pedagogical methods used by effective urban teachers as well as
specific means by which to get pre-service, becoming teachers, involved
in learning the best teaching practices that are effective with
minority students.
UNIT 7. Serving Special Needs and Concerns
35. Hearts and Minds: Military Recruitment and the High School Battlefield,
William Ayers, Phi Delta Kappan, April 2006
Ayers discusses his study of military recruitment practices in American
high schools. As part of this project, he also interviewed a group of
wounded American veterans from the war in Iraq, each of whom had one
thing in common: each has received the Purple Heart.
36. City's Pupils Get More Hype than Hope, Sol Stern, City Journal, Winter
2006
The author explores political dimensions of operations in urban school
systems, and he is critical of the effectiveness of mayoral control of
major city school systems. He argues that much publicity is addressed
to parents and students, yet there is less hope for students because of
the political power plays for control of urban school systems.
37. Approaching the Unavoidable: Literacy Instruction and the Internet,
Jacquelynn A. Malloy and Linda B. Gambrell, The Reading Teacher, February
2006
Malloy and Gambrell report on how the rapid pace of technological
change in schooling leads to the use of online reading instruction in
addition to this use of traditional printed text materials. They offer
clear examples as to how this can be done.
38. Acting White, Roland G. Fryer, Education Next, Winter 2006
How "acting white” can have possible adverse long-term effects on
minority students is discussed. The reasons for this phenomenon are
documented by the author. He reports on how he gathered his research
results. The social costs to high achieving minority students are
documented.
39. How Boys Learn, Michael Gurian and Kathy Stevens, Educational Horizons
, Winter 2006
The authors present a discussion of their inquires into how boys think
. They raise important questions regarding why boys receive most of the
failing grades on tests and girls receive very few failing grades. They
raise the questions: "What should teachers do? Change the curriculum
for boys? Teach the boys differently?” They argue that gender
differences really occur in the brain. There is also a brief discussion
of human brain development in early childhood.
40. The Overdominance of Computers, Lowell W. Monke, Educational Leadership
, December 2005/January 2006
Monke explores the question as to whether or not we are putting an
overabundance of emphasis on the use of computers in student learning.
He raises important questions as to whether or not we ought to seek
some balance between the use of computers and traditional methods of
learning.
41. Morality, Medicine, and Meaning: Toward an Integrated Justification of
Physical Education, Sigmund Loland, Quest, 2006
The author provides an in-depth review and analysis of research on
physical education as part of a student's overall educational
experience. He asks: What are the values of physical education? How
should it be integrated into a student's overall educational
experience? He raises moral justifications for physical education.
UNIT 8. The Profession of Teaching Today
42. Starting with the Soul, Sam M. Intrator and Robert Kunzman,
Educational Leadership, March 2006
The authors argue that teachers need ways of teacher renewal as
educators. They need to have opportunities to restore their passion for
teaching that they may be inspired to teach from their professional
"souls.” They describe two professional development programs for
teachers and suggest others.
43. The Satisfactions of Teaching, Elliot Eisner, Educational Leadership,
March 2006
Eisner gives examples of two great teachers, Elie Wiesel and Mamie Till
Mobley, and discusses their careers as teachers and the characteristics
that made them great. A distinguished educator himself, the author
discusses those characteristics that can lead to greatness in teaching
.
44. Mayhem in the Middle: Why We Should Shift to K-8, Cheri Pierson Yecke,
Educational Leadership, April 2006
The author argues that we should shift from the model of middle
schooling prevalent in the United States in recent years back to K-8
schools. She cites two case studies to support her thesis and offers
ten programmatic strategies for the transition.
45. Guess Again: Will Changing the Grades Save Middle-Level Education?,
James Beane and Richard Lipka, Educational Leadership, April 2006
Beane and Lipka argue that changing the structures of schooling is not
to face the real problems of the current model of middle schooling.
They offer six suggestions for trying to address problems with the
current model of middle schooling.
46. Developing Social Justice Educators, Jeffrey M.R. Duncan-Andrade,
Educational Leadership, March 2005
The author presents a description of how teachers can teach for social
justice in society and how they can focus on social justice concerns in
their classrooms. He offers his conception of a social justice
philosophy for educators, and offers examples of how three teachers
have done this.
47. The Boss in the Classroom, Louis P. Masur, The Chronicle of Higher
Education, September 2, 2005
The author offers specific suggestions as to how to help students see
greater significance to the subject matter that they learn in school by
using popular culture artists, especially musicians, to liven up course
work. He uses Bruce Springsteen as an example in this article, as well
as other popular artists such as Elvis Presley and Bob Dylan.
UNIT 9. For Vision and Hope: Alternative Visions of Reality
48. The New WWW: Whatever, Whenever, Wherever, Tom March, Educational
Leadership, December 2005/January 2006
The author argues that the great technological advances offer great
things for the future of how we can or will be educated. The new WWW
will be universal, worldwide in scope. We will be able to learn
"whatever, whenever, wherever.” People can learn on personal handheld
devices as well as by using personal computers. In the future people
will have many modes to access knowledge.
49. Listen to the Natives, Marc Prensky, Educational Leadership, December
2005/January 2006
Prensky makes the case that today's students in the schools of the 21st
century have more advanced electronic knowledge than most of their
older teachers whose skills are based on 20th century knowledge.
Therefore, teachers should talk with their students and ask them what
they know about the new technologies. He refers to today's students as
"digital natives.” Many of their teachers are "digital immigrants.”
50. The Future of Education: Four Scenarios, Robert Sanborn et al.,
Current, March/April 2005
The authors identify four scenarios for the future of education in the
next twenty years. It may be that what actually will occur is a
combination of two or more of these scenarios for the future of
education.
51. Déjà Vu All Over Again?, Henry Levin, Education Next, Spring 2006
Levin contends that schools of the future will continue to operate
pretty much as they do now in the first decade of the 21st century. We
continue to rediscover the "wheel” in education; thus, many current
predictions for the future of education are echoes of rhetoric
concerning the future of schooling, first conjured up in the 1990s. We
will see what the future will bring.
Utne Reader, May/June 2003
The authors provide a worldwide vision of how the innovative
alternative Waldorf School System has come about, which is part of the
vision for a better human condition created by the social vision of
Rudolf Steiner. Steiner's vision of a better human future has been
played out in many different fields of human endeavor, education being
one of them.