Download or read book Citizens Guide to Public Education written by Metropolitan School Study Council, New York and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Education Wars written by Jennifer C. Berkshire and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A perfectly timed book for the educational resistance—those of us who believe in public schools Culture wars have engulfed our schools. Extremist groups are seeking to ban books, limit what educators can teach, and threaten the very foundations of public education. What’s behind these efforts? Why are our schools suddenly so vulnerable? And how can the millions of Americans who love their public schools fight back? In this concise, hard-hitting guide, journalist Jennifer C. Berkshire and education scholar Jack Schneider answer these questions and chart a way forward. The Education Wars explains the sudden obsession with race and gender in schools, as well as the ascendancy of book-banning efforts. It offers a clear analysis of school vouchers and the impact they’ll have on school finances. It deciphers the movement for “parents’ rights,” explaining the rights that students and taxpayers also have. And it reveals how the ostensible pursuit of “religious freedom” opens the door to discrimination against vulnerable children. Berkshire and Schneider outline the core issues driving the education wars, offering essential information about issues, actors, and potential outcomes. In so doing, they lay out what is at stake for parents, teachers, and students and provide a road map for ensuring that public education survives this present assault. A book that will enrage and enlighten the millions of citizens who believe in their public schools, here is a long-overdue handbook and guide to action.

Download or read book National Standards in American Education written by Diane Ravitch and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2011-05-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Updating her highly acclaimed book, Diane Ravitch presents the latest information on the debate over national standards and assessments. "Ensuring a rigorous liberal education for all is asking a lot in a contentious democracy like ours. Is it possible to educate every child to the same high standards? Is it politically feasible? Will raising standards help or hinder poor minority children? Ravitch sees where these land mines are buried and her book provides an indispensable diagram for getting around them."—The Wall Street Journal "A simple message lies at the heart of Diane Ravitch's new book.... If clear and consistent goals of learning could be set for all American children, rich and poor, gifted and ordinary, then all of these children would end up better educated than they now are likely to be."—The New York Times "No one could be more qualified to write a book about national standards in education than Diane Ravitch."—The Washington Times "The ongoing debate about national education standards and assessment in the U.S. has created as much confusion as it has solutions. What has been needed is an examination of the educational, historical, political, and social issues related to the development of such standards. Ravitch provides such a foundation."—Choice

Download or read book Every School written by Donald P. Nielsen and published by Discovery Institute. This book was released on 2019-03-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How would an entrepreneur reform education? In Every School, Don Nielsen draws on his business career and two decades as a school activist, to offer innovative solutions to the educational challenges facing our country. Lasting change, Nielsen argues, will not come mainly through local school boards, but rather through state legislative action that empowers school administrators to make choices in the interests of their students. The book is essential reading for parents, policymakers and citizens who want to improve the present system, and who have the courage to pursue the recommendations contained within. This updated version includes a "game plan" for a state with specific steps to implement the changes Nielsen recommends.

Download or read book The Public and Its Education written by Herbert McNee Hamlin and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Citizen s Guide to the New York City Public Schools written by Public Education Association of the City of New York and published by . This book was released on 1958 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Citizen s Guide to Artificial Intelligence written by John Zerilli and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise but informative overview of AI ethics and policy. Artificial intelligence, or AI for short, has generated a staggering amount of hype in the past several years. Is it the game-changer it's been cracked up to be? If so, how is it changing the game? How is it likely to affect us as customers, tenants, aspiring home-owners, students, educators, patients, clients, prison inmates, members of ethnic and sexual minorities, voters in liberal democracies? This book offers a concise overview of moral, political, legal and economic implications of AI. It covers the basics of AI's latest permutation, machine learning, and considers issues including transparency, bias, liability, privacy, and regulation.

Download or read book School Choices The Citizen s Guide to Education Reform written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features information on school choice, compiled by Andrew J. Coulson. Advocates that free educational markets have consistently served society better than government-run school systems. Notes that the information does include a section presenting arguments against school choice.

Download or read book A Citizen s Guide to the New York City Schools written by John J. Benjamin and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Citizen s Guide to School Desegregation Law written by Mary Von Euler and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Making Sense of School Budgets written by Susan Perkins Weston and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Citizen s Guide to Atlanta Public Schools written by APPLE Corps and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Beyond the Open Door written by Nancy Berla and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BEYOND THE OPEN DOOR: A CITIZENS GUIDE TO INCREASING PUBLIC ACCESS TO LOCAL SCHOOL BOARDS is the only comprehensive, up-to-date source of information on open meetings laws in the 50 states & the District of Columbia as they affect local boards of education. Based on nation-wide research & analysis conducted through the summer of 1989, this monograph explains what boards must do to comply with the law, & what citizens can do to assure that compliance. Beyond that, this volume provides a tool for citizens & board members to evaluate local performance, & offers a model policy to help improve public access & board openness. Included are easy-to-read charts comparing the major provisions of the law in each state & defining the precise grounds for legally-held closed sessions (by far the most common vehicle by which boards circumvent the law), a glossary of school district terminology, a one-page summary of each law (including a contact person for citizens who need more information or wish to file a complaint against their local board), & a directory of state boards of education.

Download or read book A Citizen s Guide to New Orleans Public Schools written by League of Women Voters of New Orleans and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Citizen s Guide to the New York City Public Schools and Colleges written by PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATION, New York and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Citizen s Guide to the New York City Schools written by Public Education Association (New York, N.Y.). Community Education Committee and published by . This book was released on 1953 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door written by Jack Schneider and published by The New Press. This book was released on 2023-03-07 with total page 153 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight back In the “vigorous, well-informed” (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do away with public education. “Cut[ing] through the rhetorical fog surrounding a host of free-market reforms and innovations” (Mike Rose), Jack Schneider and Jennifer Berkshire lay bare the dogma of privatization and reveal how it fits into the current context of right-wing political movements. A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door “goes above and beyond the typical explanations” (SchoolPolicy.org), giving readers an up-close look at the policies—school vouchers, the war on teachers’ unions, tax credit scholarships, virtual schools, and more—driving the movement’s agenda. Called “well-researched, carefully argued, and alarming” by Library Journal, this smart, essential book has already incited a public reckoning on behalf of the millions of families served by the American educational system—and many more who stand to suffer from its unmaking. “Just as with good sci-fi,” according to Jacobin, “the authors make a compelling case that, based on our current trajectory, a nightmare future is closer than we think.”