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Our schools and our future : --are we still at risk? /

"When A nation at risk was published 20 years ago, it was seen as something of the Peyton Place of education reports: it stunned the establishment, readers threw up their hands and proclaimed themselves shocked by it, but no one could tear themselves away from reading it. Now, on the 20th anniv...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace. Koret Task Force on K-12 Education
Otros Autores: Peterson, Paul E., Chubb, John E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Stanford, Calif. : Hoover Institution Press, Stanford University, ©2003.
Colección:Hoover Institution Press publication ; 516.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Are we still at risk? : findings and recommendations / Koret task force on K-12 education
  • Part 1. "A nation at risk" : then and now
  • A historic document / Diane Ravitch
  • Little gain in student achievement / Paul E. Peterson
  • What has changed and what has not / Caroline M. Hoxby
  • Minority children at risk / Paul Hill, Kacey Guin, Mary Beth Celio
  • The importance of school quality / Eric A. Hanushek
  • Part 2. Why so little was reformed
  • The politics of the status quo / Terry M. Moe
  • Teacher reform gone astray / Chester E. Finn Jr.
  • The curricular smorgasbord / Williamson M. Evers, Paul Clopton
  • Neglecting the early grades / E.D. Hirsch Jr.
  • Part 3. Getting serious
  • Real accountability / Herbert J. Walberg
  • Real choice / John E. Chubb.