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- catalog contributor b13113661.
- catalog created "c2004.".
- catalog date "2004".
- catalog date "c2004.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2004.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 152-163) and index.".
- catalog description "Part I: School reform and what it means for our children -- I: Schools, wizards, and pulling back curtains -- Dear reader: please read this first -- II: Behind curtain number 1: school "reform" -- Scandal! -- Asking the right questions -- Beware of buzzwords! -- Behind the curtain of no child left behind -- III: Behind the curtain of accountability: all about testing -- Testing 101 -- Why many children must be left behind by NCLB: how standardized tests are normed -- Labeling our preschool children -- The repercussions of standardized testing -- IV: A hard look at stress and competition -- Looking at learning -- Part II: What is learning? How doe we learn? -- V: Bottom-up teaching, methods, materials, and research -- Skills-first, or bottom-up, view of teaching/learning -- VI: Government-approved programs, methods, and the research claims -- Government-approved reading programs -- Scripted manuals -- More intimidation -- The truth about the NRP findings on commercial reading programs -- VII: Top-down teaching, methods, materials, and research -- Reading instruction: a quick overview of a top-down classroom -- Back to the reading wars -- The need for libraries -- How do teaching styles affect students' thinking and behavior? -- Back to the beginning -- VIII: What can we do about it?".
- catalog extent "viii, 168 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "In defense of our children.".
- catalog identifier "0325006474 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "In defense of our children.".
- catalog issued "2004".
- catalog issued "c2004.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann,".
- catalog relation "In defense of our children.".
- catalog spatial "United States.".
- catalog subject "372.46/5 22".
- catalog subject "LB1050.2 .G35 2004".
- catalog subject "Literacy programs United States.".
- catalog subject "Reading United States.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I: School reform and what it means for our children -- I: Schools, wizards, and pulling back curtains -- Dear reader: please read this first -- II: Behind curtain number 1: school "reform" -- Scandal! -- Asking the right questions -- Beware of buzzwords! -- Behind the curtain of no child left behind -- III: Behind the curtain of accountability: all about testing -- Testing 101 -- Why many children must be left behind by NCLB: how standardized tests are normed -- Labeling our preschool children -- The repercussions of standardized testing -- IV: A hard look at stress and competition -- Looking at learning -- Part II: What is learning? How doe we learn? -- V: Bottom-up teaching, methods, materials, and research -- Skills-first, or bottom-up, view of teaching/learning -- VI: Government-approved programs, methods, and the research claims -- Government-approved reading programs -- Scripted manuals -- More intimidation -- The truth about the NRP findings on commercial reading programs -- VII: Top-down teaching, methods, materials, and research -- Reading instruction: a quick overview of a top-down classroom -- Back to the reading wars -- The need for libraries -- How do teaching styles affect students' thinking and behavior? -- Back to the beginning -- VIII: What can we do about it?".
- catalog title "In defense of our children : when politics, profit, and education collide / Elaine M. Garan.".
- catalog type "text".