Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real, 2008 Election
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Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real, 2008 Election
This 2008 election edition reopens today's critical issues in public education. Once again speaking to the next president, this stellar collection of more than thirty letters speaks to the future of American students and the need for an educated and engaged citizenry. Top education experts, elected officials, business and community leaders, teachers, principals, students, and parents discuss the dangerous shortcomings of current state and federal policies and offer suggestions for what can be done about it.
Table of Contents:
Note on the 2008 Election Edition Foreword: Where Do We Start to Sweep?, Bill Cosby Acknowledgments Introduction, Carl Glickman
Part One 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, Former U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords Financing America s Future How Money Counts, William J. Mathis Why We Need Public Education, John I. Goodlad
Part Two Learning for All
Broken Roads and the Great Mother Earth, Derrick Attakai, Evalena Joey, Britta Mitchell, Melody Riggs, & Manuel Thompson with Mark Sorensen In Struggle and Hope, Lisa Delpit Nine 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
Part Three Teaching for All
My Students, My School, Karen Hale Hankins Teaching Darius to Dream, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine Why We Continue to Stay, Jane Ross The Gap Between What We Say and What We Do, Arturo Pacheco Revolving Doors and Leaky Buckets, Richard Ingersoll
Part Four 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 & Martin Lipton A President Who Gets It, Thomas Sobol
Part Five Education for All
The Civic Mission of Schools, U.S. Senator John Glenn & Leslie F. Hergert What We All Want for Each of Our Children, Theodore R. Sizer Postcards from America, Michelle Fine, April Burns, & MarÃÂa Elena Torre Learning to Come Alive, Maxine Greene Voices Closest to the Ones We Love, Ken Rolling & Sandra Halladey A Nation of Learners, Pam Solo Crafting Legislation, Elizabeth DeBray-Pelot Conclusion: Schools That Work for All Children, Linda Darling-Hammond Organizations for Parents, Educators, and Activists Organizational Statement on the No Child Left Behind Act