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- catalog abstract ""Class Warfare: Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence offers a firsthand account of the Great American Education War being waged from coast to coast, including the reading wars, math wars, testing wars and other schoolroom scuffles reported almost daily in the nation's media." "A professor of political science who was honored as a distinguished teacher at his university, Martin Rochester became deeply involved in public education as a result of his own children's misadventures in the classroom. Like most parents, he wanted to make a difference. He first tried to contribute by becoming a dogged volunteer in his children's classrooms and his Parent-Teacher Organization. But what he found, in addition to overbearing administrators and overworked teachers, was a system that had contempt for the most fundamental elements of traditional schooling (ability-grouping, grades, homework, rigor, discipline, etc.), allowed nonacademic diversions to crowd out academic study, and exchanged a commitment to excellence for an obsession with "equity." Rochester gradually evolved from concerned parent to informed critic. As he relates in Class Warfare, he became a familiar presence to local school boards and to the state education bureaucracy as well, and was finally asked to testify before the Missouri legislature on what he had discovered."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12592044.
- catalog created "2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2002.".
- catalog description ""A professor of political science who was honored as a distinguished teacher at his university, Martin Rochester became deeply involved in public education as a result of his own children's misadventures in the classroom. Like most parents, he wanted to make a difference. He first tried to contribute by becoming a dogged volunteer in his children's classrooms and his Parent-Teacher Organization.".
- catalog description ""Class Warfare: Besieged Schools, Bewildered Parents, Betrayed Kids and the Attack on Excellence offers a firsthand account of the Great American Education War being waged from coast to coast, including the reading wars, math wars, testing wars and other schoolroom scuffles reported almost daily in the nation's media."".
- catalog description "But what he found, in addition to overbearing administrators and overworked teachers, was a system that had contempt for the most fundamental elements of traditional schooling (ability-grouping, grades, homework, rigor, discipline, etc.), allowed nonacademic diversions to crowd out academic study, and exchanged a commitment to excellence for an obsession with "equity." Rochester gradually evolved from concerned parent to informed critic. As he relates in Class Warfare, he became a familiar presence to local school boards and to the state education bureaucracy as well, and was finally asked to testify before the Missouri legislature on what he had discovered."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "How I became a soldier in the great American education war -- What's nutty about contemporary K-12 education, in a nutshell -- For whom the school bell tolls: the clash between excellence and equity -- Are the Three Stooges really geniuses in disguise? -- The therapeutic classroom -- Basic training in the three R's -- The teacher as coach -- A modest proposal for a cease-fire.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-305) and index.".
- catalog extent "xi, 316 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Class warfare.".
- catalog identifier "1893554538 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Class warfare.".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Francisco, Calif. : Encounter Books,".
- catalog relation "Class warfare.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "371.01/0973 21".
- catalog subject "Education United States.".
- catalog subject "LA217.2 .R64 2002".
- catalog subject "Public schools United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "How I became a soldier in the great American education war -- What's nutty about contemporary K-12 education, in a nutshell -- For whom the school bell tolls: the clash between excellence and equity -- Are the Three Stooges really geniuses in disguise? -- The therapeutic classroom -- Basic training in the three R's -- The teacher as coach -- A modest proposal for a cease-fire.".
- catalog title "Class warfare : besieged schools, bewildered parents, betrayed kids, and the attack on excellence / by J. Martin Rochester.".
- catalog type "text".