School reform

School reform / Noël Merino, book editor.

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Merino, Noël (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farmington Hills, Mich. : Greenhaven Press, [2015]
Series:Opposing viewpoints series (Unnumbered)
Subjects:
Educational change > United States.
Education > United States > Finance.
Educational tests and measurements > United States.
Educational evaluation > United States.
Table of Contents:
  • What policies should guide school reform? The Common Core state standards are good for education / Council of Chief State School Officers
  • Why Common Core isn't the answer / Marion Brady
  • Federal spending on education should be limited / Lindsey M. Burke
  • Government spending on education needs to be more equitable / Marin Gjaja, J. Puckett, and Matt Ryder
  • Teachers' unions should be eliminated / Richard A. Epstein
  • Teachers' unions are a positive force for education / Amy B. Dean
  • How should students, teachers, and schools be evaluated? Standardized testing is harming student learning / Mary Elizabeth Williams
  • Standardized testing is a good way to measure student learning / Herbert J. Walberg
  • Disappearing act : end the testing fixation before it erases more meaningful education / Virginia Myers
  • Evaluating teachers by student test scores can be arbitrary / Molly Rusk
  • Students should evaluate their teachers / Amanda Ripley
  • What role should school choice play in school reform? School vouchers are a good way to promote school choice / Casey Given
  • Winning the war on charter schools / Reihan Salam
  • Charter schools are a bad idea / Diane Ravitch
  • Why school choice fails / Natalie Hopkinson
  • The entire public school system should be abolished / C. Bradley Thompson
  • Should curriculum content in schools be reformed? Math has to be at least a little boring / Konstantin Kakaes
  • How much math do we really need? / G.V. Ramanathan
  • Teachers should have the freedom to teach critiques of evolution / John W. Whitehead
  • Schools should teach about religion / Mark Fowler and Marisa Fasciano
  • Allowing schools to teach about religion is dangerous / Kevin Ryan.

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