What is authentic educational reform?
Subtitle: pushing against the compassionate conservative agenda
By: editors Helen L. Johnson and Arthur Salz.
Contributors: Johnson, Helen L.; Salz, Arthur.
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Taylor & Francis Group
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780805860498
Subjects: United States; Education and state -- United States; Educational change -- United States; Education -- United States -- Evaluation; School improvement programs -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is authentic educational reform? / Arthur Salz; title: Compassionate conservatism : current myths of educational reform; title: No child left behind as political fraud / Joel Spring; title: The sociopolitical context of no child left behind : hard times and courageous responses / Sonia Nieto and Helen L. Johnson; title: The impact of compassionate conservatism on educational policies and practices; title: The privatization of America's schools / Florence Samson and Clive Belfield; title: High stakes testing : inauthentic educational reform / Patrick B. Johnson; title: Educational reform and the child with disabilities / Mikki Malow-Iroff, Michael Benhar, and Sonya Martin; title: Reports from the field : the impact of compassionate conservatism on teaching and learning; title: Leaving sanity behind : how scientific are the scientific phonics programs? / Rick Meyers; title: "I thought I was a professional" : teachers and parents reactions to NCLB in New York City / Marcia Baghban and Harriet Li; title: What ever happened to the rest of the curriculum? / Myra Zarnowski, Amie Backner, and Liba Engel; title: The campaign for fiscal equity / Susan Kirch and Molly Hunter; title: The impact of community on educational reform / Lisa Scott and Angela Love; title: Equity in the science classroom / Penny Hammrich and Michele Meyers; title: Authentic educational reform : what is to be done?; title: Educational reform / Bill Ayers; title: In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act / Susan Ohanian; title: Conclusion; title: Finding the missing child in NCLB : pushing against the compassionate conservative agenda / Helen L. Johnson.