Will standards save public education?
By: [compiled by] Deborah Meier ; foreword by Jonathan Kozol ; edited by Joshua Cohen and Joel Rogers for The Boston Review.
Contributors: Meier, Deborah.; Cohen, Joshua, 1951-; Rogers, Joel, 1952-
Series: New democracy forum series; New democracy forum
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 90
Subjects: Education -- Standards -- United States; Educational tests and measurements -- United States
Other titles: Boston review (Cambridge, Mass. : 1982); Center for Educational Pluralism Collection.
Description: "Deborah Meier offers a fresh take on standardized tests. While others have criticized standards and what they measure. Meier rejects the very idea of a centralized authority that dictates how and what teachers teach. Standardization, she argues, prevents citizens - including teachers - from emerging as thoughtful, responsible adults, seriously engaged with shaping their own schools, classrooms, and communities. As a result, young people can't learn from them how to be thoughtful, responsible adults and good citizens, the primary goal of public education in a democracy."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: Available at the Center for Educational Pluralism, located in Miller Hall 250.
Table of contents: title: Educating a democracy -- Deborah Meier; title: No excuses -- Abigail Thernstrom; title: Making a difference -- Bob Chase; title: Expert opinion -- Gary B. Nash; title: Habits of mind -- Linda Nathan; title: Case for standards -- Richard J. Murnane; title: Standards fraud -- William Ayers; title: Sense of place -- Theodore Sizer; title: Reply-- Deborah Meier.