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Essay Review: Missing Weapons of Mass Instructionreviewed by Dick Schutz - July 16, 2008 Title: Essay Review: Missing Weapons of Mass Instruction Author(s): Sherman Dorn Publisher: Information Age Publishing, Charlotte ISBN: 1593116233, Pages: 212, Year: 2007 Search for book at Amazon.com The essay reviews the book and sketches an alternative route for ensuring educational accountability and for accomplishing the aspirations of NCLB.
Dont be put off by the histrionic title of the book (and try to temporarily suspend judgment on the histrionic title of the article). If you are in any way concerned with the status and future of US el-hi education, you owe it to yourself to read this book. Why? Well, Ill try to give you a précis, but its 171 pages cover a wide sweep. Its Dorns original thinking, but its backed up by 32 pages of references. At 18 or so references per page of references, that clocks at more than 500 references. The focus of the analysis is on NCLB, but youll learn things such as:
Why local school administrators have lost much of the authority they once commanded.
Why people trust ungrounded standardized achievement tests.
The importance of the... (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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