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School Reform: The Critical Issuesreviewed by Pia Lindquist Wong - 2003 Title: School Reform: The Critical Issues Author(s): Williamson M. Evers, Lance T. Izumi, & Pamela A. Riley (eds.) Publisher: Hoover Institution Press, Stanford ISBN: 0817928723, Pages: 400, Year: 2001 Search for book at Amazon.com School reform: The critical issues edited by Williamson
M. Evers, Lance T. Izumi and Pamela A. Riley and published by the
Hoover Institution in 2001 claims to help readers “understand
the basic nature of our education problems and the remedies that
address them….” (p. xiii). In addition, the editors
include articles that “…state the problems
realistically and then propose reasonable and effective
alternatives” (xiii). The target audience for the book
is a wide one: policy makers, school board members, legislators,
teachers, members of the media, and parents.
The book is organized into six major sections and covers the
following broad topics and sub-topics (listed in parentheses):
teaching approaches (progressive education, curriculum and methods,
computers/distance learning, direct instruction/explicit teaching,
ability grouping, whole school reform), the student (student
beliefs/character education, social promotion), parents and
teachers (parents, teachers), educationally disadvantaged,
standards and accountability, and structuring education (spending,
vouchers, contracting out, charter schools, class and school size,
federal aid to education and the poor, home schooling, private
schooling). There do not appear to be... (preview truncated at 150 words.)To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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- Pia Lindquist Wong
California State University Sacramento E-mail Author PIA LINDQUIST WONG, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor in the Department of Bilingual/Multicultural Education at California State University, Sacramento.
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