Dispelling sensational beliefs that portray public schools as bureaucratic, violent, and ineffective, a study argues that increased population levels have distorted the statistics and reveals an improved competency among average students.

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, And The Attack On America's Public Schools

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Berliner, David C.

Biddle, Bruce J.

Psychology & Counseling

Basic Books

The Manufactured Crisis debunks the myths that test scores in America's schools are falling, that illiteracy is rising, and that better funding has no benefit. It shares the good news about public education. Disputing conventional wisdom, this book ignited debate in Newsweek, The New York Times, and the entire teaching profession. Winner of the American Educational Research Association book award, The Manufactured Crisis is the best source of facts and analysis for people who care about what's really happening in our schools.

Talks to Teachers: A Festschrift for N.L. Gage

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Mcgraw-Hill College

Educational Psychology

Gage, Nathaniel Lees

Houghton Mifflin College Div.

Library book. Still has library card holder inside back cover

Perspectives on Instructional Time (Research on Teaching Monograph Series)

Fisher, Charles W.

Addison-Wesley Longman Ltd

Formerly a SkyLight publicationThis one-of-a-kind handbook presents the results of professional research in an accessible, readable format, featuring teaching strategies and real-life practices that work in today′s schools.

Putting Research to Work in Your School

Casanova, Ursula

scholastic

The authors tear through the sensational myths about the dire state of our public schools to give the reader an honest look at public education in America. Their conclusion: though not absent of severe problems, American public schools continue to provide an increasingly diverse citizenry with an opportunity to better themselves.

The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools

Longman Pub. Group

Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been created and perpetuated in large part by political and economic interests that stand to gain from its destruction. They also expose a rapidly expanding variety of organizations and media that intentionally misrepresent facts. Many of these organizations suggest that their goal is unbiased service in the public interest when, in fact, they represent narrow political and financial interests. Where appropriate, the authors name the promoters of these deceptions and point out how they are served by encouraging false beliefs. This provocative book features short essays on important topics to provide every elected representative, school administrator, school board member, teacher, parent, and concerned citizen with much food for thought, as well as reliable knowledge from authoritative sources.

50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America’s Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education

Glass, Gene V.

Teachers' College Press

Review of Research in Education, 1981, No. 9

Amer Educational Research Assn

Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of high-stakes tests. Their analysis is grounded in the application of Campbell’s Law, which posits that the greater the social consequences associated with a quantitative indicator (such as test scores), the more likely it is that the indicator itself will become corrupted—and the more likely it is that the use of the indicator will corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor. Nichols and Berliner illustrate both aspects of this “corruption,” showing how the pressures of high-stakes testing erode the validity of test scores and distort the integrity of the education system. Their analysis provides a coherent and comprehensive intellectual framework for the wide-ranging arguments against high-stakes testing, while putting a compelling human face on the data marshalled in support of those arguments.

Collateral Damage: How High-Stakes Testing Corrupts America's Schools

Nichols, Sharon L.

Harvard Education Press

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