Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real, 2008 Election Book PDF, ePub eBook

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Book Descriptions:
This 2008 election edition reopens today's critical issues in public education. Once again speaking to the next president, this stellar collection of more than thirty letters speaks to the future of American students and the need for an educated and engaged citizenry. Top education experts, elected officials, business and community leaders, teachers, principals, students, and parents discuss the dangerous shortcomings of current state and federal policies and offer suggestions for what can be done about it.

Table of Contents:

Note on the 2008 Election Edition
Foreword: Where Do We Start to Sweep?, Bill Cosby
Acknowledgments
Introduction, Carl Glickman


Part One
Schools for All

Journey to a New Life, Rosa Fernández
Helping Me to Raise My Hand, Vance Rawles
Creating Schools We Can Trust, Deborah Meier
If We Had the Will to See It Happen, Asa G. Hilliard III
Getting Our Responsibilities Right, Sophie Sa
It s Past Time to Fund What We Mandate, Former U.S. Senator Jim Jeffords
Financing America s Future How Money Counts, William J. Mathis
Why We Need Public Education, John I. Goodlad


Part Two
Learning for All

Broken Roads and the Great Mother Earth, Derrick Attakai, Evalena Joey, Britta Mitchell, Melody Riggs, & Manuel Thompson with Mark Sorensen
In Struggle and Hope, Lisa Delpit
Nine Million Voices, Rachel Tompkins
How Our High School Makes a Difference, George Wood
Putting the Arts Back in America s ABC's, Reynold Levy
When Does $1.00 Equal $7.00?, Lilian Katz
What They Do With the Other 73 Percent of Their Time, Louis B. Casagrande


Part Three
Teaching for All

My Students, My School, Karen Hale Hankins
Teaching Darius to Dream, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine
Why We Continue to Stay, Jane Ross
The Gap Between What We Say and What We Do, Arturo Pacheco
Revolving Doors and Leaky Buckets, Richard Ingersoll


Part Four
Standards for All

Choking the Life Out of Classrooms, Sylvia Bruni
What My Students Need to Know, Edward C. Montgomery
The No-Win Accountability Game, W. James Popham
Going Beyond the Slogans and Rhetoric, Pedro Noguera
. . . And Equal Education for All, Jeannie Oakes & Martin Lipton
A President Who Gets It, Thomas Sobol


Part Five
Education for All

The Civic Mission of Schools, U.S. Senator John Glenn & Leslie F. Hergert
What We All Want for Each of Our Children, Theodore R. Sizer
Postcards from America, Michelle Fine, April Burns, & María Elena Torre
Learning to Come Alive, Maxine Greene
Voices Closest to the Ones We Love, Ken Rolling & Sandra Halladey
A Nation of Learners, Pam Solo
Crafting Legislation, Elizabeth DeBray-Pelot
Conclusion: Schools That Work for All Children, Linda Darling-Hammond
Organizations for Parents, Educators, and Activists
Organizational Statement on the No Child Left Behind Act

Letters to the Next President: What We Can Do About the Real, 2008 Election

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