Letters to the Next President
by Glickman, CarlFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-09-15
Publisher(s): Teachers College Pr
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Summary
This timely collection includes more than 40 letters by top education experts, elected officials, business and community leaders, teachers, principals, elementary and secondary students, and parents.
Table of Contents
| Note on the 2008 Election Edition | p. xi |
| Foreword: Where Do We Start to Sweep? | p. xiii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xvii |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Schools for All | |
| Journey to a New Life | p. 9 |
| Helping Me to Raise My Hand | p. 14 |
| Creating Schools We Can Trust | p. 18 |
| If We Had the Will to See It Happen | p. 27 |
| Getting Our Responsibilities Right | p. 35 |
| It's Past Time to Fund What We Mandate | p. 43 |
| Financing America's Future-How Money Counts | p. 47 |
| Why We Need Public Education | p. 54 |
| Learning for All | |
| Broken Roads and the Great Mother Earth | p. 63 |
| In Struggle and Hope | p. 70 |
| Nine Million Voices | p. 77 |
| How Our High School Makes a Difference | p. 85 |
| Putting the Arts Back in America's ABC's | p. 94 |
| When Does $1.00 Equal $7.00? | p. 100 |
| What They Do With the Other 73 Percent of Their Time | p. 106 |
| Teaching for All | |
| My Students, My School | p. 113 |
| Teaching Darius to Dream | p. 120 |
| Why We Continue to Stay | p. 127 |
| The Gap Between What We Say and What We Do | p. 134 |
| Revolving Doors and Leaky Buckets | p. 141 |
| Standards for All | |
| Choking the Life Out of Classrooms | p. 151 |
| What My Students Need to Know | p. 158 |
| The No-Win Accountability Game | p. 166 |
| Going Beyond the Slogans and Rhetoric | p. 174 |
| "...And Equal Education for All" | p. 184 |
| A President Who "Gets It" | p. 193 |
| Education for All | |
| The Civic Mission of Schools | p. 201 |
| What We All Want for Each of Our Children | p. 207 |
| Postcards from America | p. 211 |
| Learning to Come Alive | p. 223 |
| Voices Closest to the Ones We Love | p. 228 |
| A Nation of Learners | p. 233 |
| Crafting Legislation | p. 239 |
| Conclusion: Schools That Work for All Children | p. 243 |
| Organizations for Parents, Educators, and Activists | p. 259 |
| Organizational Statement on the No Child Left Behind Act | p. 261 |
| About the Editor and Contributors | p. 267 |
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