Download or read book Cockeyed Education written by Gerard Giordano and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should educators pay students? Should they make them wear sunglasses, regulate their clothing, allow them to bring animals into classrooms, discourage them from playing videogames, or transform their schools into gymnasiums? These are some of the suggestions that Cockeyed Education examines. This book enables readers to differentiate substantive from cockeyed suggestionsfor improving schools.. It directs them to the suggestions that scholastic experts, politicians, and members of the public have made. Additionally, it introduces them to the case method. It helps them apply this analytical technique to events that range from early Chicago schooling to the 2009 economic stimulus package.
Download or read book Cockeyed Education written by Gerard Giordano and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should educators pay students? Should they make them wear sunglasses, regulate their clothing, allow them to bring animals into classrooms, discourage them from playing videogames, or transform their schools into gymnasiums? These are some of the suggestions that Cockeyed Education examines. This book enables readers to differentiate substantive from cockeyed suggestionsfor improving schools.. It directs them to the suggestions that scholastic experts, politicians, and members of the public have made. Additionally, it introduces them to the case method. It helps them apply this analytical technique to events that range from early Chicago schooling to the 2009 economic stimulus package.
Download or read book Common Sense Questions about School Administration written by Gerard Giordano and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-03-06 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents have questions for school administrators. They want to know how they hire teachers, erect facilities, select learning materials, protect students, allocate budgets, use data, make forecasts, measure progress, and compete with for-profit schools. This book examines the questions they pose, the answers they elicit, the allies they attract, the adversaries they arouse, and the improvements they prod.
Download or read book Parents and School Technology written by Gerard Giordano and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-05-15 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents had reasons to be alarmed about school technology. They had been warned that these abuses could influence their children’s academic progress, motivation, communication, creativity, critical thinking, job preparedness, and even their safety at school. They had been told that it was linked to controversial instruction, faulty testing, inadequate textbooks, and invasive spyware. Upset by these claims, the parents had numerous questions. This book identifies their questions, the groups to which they directed them, the answers they elicited, and the educational changes they prompted.
Download or read book Lopsided Schools written by Gerard Giordano and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method and helps the reader to use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present. Some critics have stirred up educators with threats to reduce their budgets or fire them. Others upset them with disconcerting questions. Should parents demand that their children learn speed reading? Should teachers emphasize vocational activities? Should principals train their own successors? Should superintendents award bonuses to teachers? Should employers hire the graduates with the highest scores on standardized tests? Should politicians assume greater responsibility for schooling? Should journalists publicize information about lopsided schools? This book examines these and the numerous other questions that critics posed.
Download or read book Commonsense Questions about Instruction written by Gerard Giordano and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2014-01-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children. They become annoyed when the teachers are silent or surly. Parents counter with explicit, common sense questions: how do teachers arouse interest, design curricula, reinforce discipline, assign grades, designate textbooks, and select technology? This book examines the parents' questions, the answers they elicited, the allies they attracted, and the improvements they initiated.
Download or read book Parents and Textbooks written by Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the questions that parents recently have posed about textbooks.
Download or read book Common Sense Questions About Learners written by Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-05-24 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This books highlights the questions that parents have posed about learners. It also highlights the groups that responded to their question, the answers they gave, the rhetoric in which they couched their answers, and their motives.
Download or read book Common Sense Questions about Tests written by Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and union leaders who criticized them. This book examines the questions the parents posed, the answers they elicited, and the changes they prodded.
Download or read book Capping Costs written by Gerard Giordano and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early and recent school reformers demanded greater funding. They insisted that they needed it to protect children, the economy, and the nation. This book uses the case method to analyze the budgets that they proposed, the rhetoric that they employed, and the resistance that they encountered.
Download or read book Teachers Go to Rehab written by Gerard Giordano and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2012-10-04 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently. This book looks at the scope, cost, and impact of this advice to teachers, as well as the motives behind it. It poses precise questions about the groups that gave the advice. Who were they? What did they recommend? How did they estimate impact? How did they calculate costs? What aims did they profess? What aims did they conceal? Whom did they attract? Whom did they alienate? When did they succeed? When did they fail?
Download or read book The Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-04-11 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Workshop on the Knowledge Economy and Postsecondary Education documents changes seen in the postsecondary education system. In her report Lisa Hudson focuses on who is participating in postsecondary education; Tom Bailey concentrates on community colleges as the most responsive institutions to employer needs; Carol Twigg surveys the ways that four-year institutions are attempting to modify their curricular offerings and pedagogy to adapt those that will be more useful; and Brian Pusser emphasizes the public's broader interests in higher education and challenges the acceptance of the primacy of job preparation for the individual and of "market" metaphors as an appropriate descriptor of American higher education. An example of a for-profit company providing necessary instruction for workers is also examined. Richard Murnane, Nancy Sharkey, and Frank Levy investigate the experience of Cisco high school and community college students need to testify to their information technology skills to earn certificates. Finally, John Bransford, Nancy Vye, and Helen Bateman address the ways learning occurs and how these can be encouraged, particularly in cyberspace.
Download or read book Every Night when the Sun Goes Down written by Phillip Hayes Dean and published by Dramatists Play Service Inc. This book was released on 1976 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE STORY: Set in a seedy hotel of a black neighborhood in a Midwestern city, the play introduces a series of finely drawn representative characters: a pimp who sends his girl out on the street to earn money for his drugs; the light-skinned dancer
Download or read book 106 2 Hearings Rising Cost Of College Tuition And The Effectiveness Of Government Financial Aid S Hrg 106 515 February 9 And 10 2000 written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rising Cost of College Tuition and the Effectiveness of Government Financial Aid written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Earnings from Learning written by David W. Breneman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Earnings from Learning examines the historical and contemporary factors that have fueled the rise of postsecondary for-profit, degree-granting institutions as a dynamic and powerful force in education. The contributors focus on such institutions as the University of Phoenix, DeVry, and Strayer to present theoretically grounded and data-driven research from a variety of disciplinary perspectives. They document unprecedented shifts in the postsecondary political economy and landscape and evaluate the implications for nonprofit institutions, including understanding the public and private benefits of higher education, postsecondary access and success, institutional resource allocation, competition, governance, and technology.
Download or read book The Tragicomedy of Public Education written by James M. Kauffman and published by Attainment Company Inc. This book was released on 2011-02-17 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sad and almost comical ways in which our public schools functionThe tragedy is that our public schools work so poorly. The comedy is the off target comments about educational reform made by educators, business leaders, secretaries of education, presidents, and congress. Mathematical impossibilities, pompous postmodern pap, seemingly scholarly non-sequiturs, and lot of other nonsense give us much to laugh about.
