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They Always Test Us on Things We Haven’t Read : Teen Laments and Lessons Learned
reviewed by Lawrence Baines - 2006 Title: They Always Test Us on Things We Haven’t Read : Teen Laments and Lessons Learned
Author(s): Kathleen W. Gershman Publisher: Hamilton Books, Lanham ISBN: 0761829318, Pages: 165, Year: 2004 Search for book at Amazon.com The University of Indiana has launched a massive campaign called The High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE) to describe and document student engagement in secondary schools. Through self-reported responses to questions such as, How many hours per week do you spend doing volunteer work? and How many papers have you written between 3 and 5 pages in length? researchers at HSSSE hope to diagnose whats wrong with American high schools (McCarthy, Watson, So, Harris, and Winstead, 2005).
The latest federal Department of Education budget targets $1.5 billion specifically for high school, including additional funds for more testing. In February 2005, the National Governors Association met with policymakers from six philanthropic foundationsthe Gates Foundation among themto announce that they were donating millions of dollars for the reform of high schools.
Clearly, the focus of educational reform has shifted from young children to adolescents. So, whats wrong with Americas high schools?
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- Lawrence Baines
The University of Toledo E-mail Author LAWRENCE BAINES is a professor of English Education at The University of Oklahoma. His latest books are Teaching Challenging Texts (Rowman & Littlefield, 2013) and Project-based Writing in Science (Sense Publishers, 2014).
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