The great curriculum debate
Subtitle: how should we teach reading and math?
By: Tom Loveless, editor
Contributors: Loveless, Tom, 1954-
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 360
Subjects: Education -- United States -- Curricula; Curriculum planning -- United States; Reading -- United States; Mathematics -- Study and teaching -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Tom Loveless; title: The roots of the education wars /  E. D. Hirsch Jr.; title: Mathematics education : the future and the past create a context for today's issues / Gail Burrill; title: Research and reform in mathematics education / Michael T. Battista; title: A Darwinian perspective on mathematics and instruction / David C. Geary; title: The impact of traditional and reform-style practices on student mathematics achievement / Roger Shouse; title: Beyond curriculum wars : content and understanding in mathematics / Adam Gamoran; title: Good intentions are not enough / Richard Askey; title: A tale of two math reforms : the politics of the new math and the NCTM standards / Tom Loveless; title: Its time to stop the war / Diane Ravitch; title: Preventing reading difficulties in young children : precursors and fallout / Catherine E. Snow; title: Contemporary reading instruction / Margaret Moustafa; title: Does state and federal reading policymaking matter? / Richard L. Allington; title: The politics of the reading wars / William Lowe Boyd and Douglas E. Mitchell