Sacred trust : a children's education bill of rights /: a children's education bill of rights. (2011)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Peter W. Cookson, Jr. ; foreword by Rudy Crew.
• Other Names: Cookson, Peter W
• Contents: Foreword; Acknowledgements; About the Author; Introduction: A Measure of Our Soul; Chapter One: The Power of People and the Purpose of Public Education; All Children Dream; Educationally Experimenting on the Poor; Madison was Right: A New Policy Framework; Turning Dreams into Reality; The Obtainable Utopia; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Chapter Two: The Right to a Safe, Healthy, World-Class Pubic School; Right Number 1: The right to a neighborhood public school or a public school of choice that is funded for excellence; The Great Unequalizer; Getting to the Real Issues; Money---Spent Wisely---Does Matter; Reclaiming Horace's Dream; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Right Number 2: The right to physical and emotional health and safety; Do No Harm: The First Obligation; Basic Justice Requires Basic Care; Health and Social Health; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Readings; Chapter Three: The Cultural and Individual Rights of Students; Right Number 3: The right to have his or her heritage, background, and religious differences honored, incorporated in study, and celebrated in the culture of the school; Unity Within Diversity; The Open Mind and the Open Society; The Empathic Civilization; The Classroom Is the World; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Right Number 4: The right to develop learning styles and strategies to the greatest extent possible; Doubt and Its Virtues; The Mismatch Between Research and Practice; Maximizing Children's Talent Through Individualization; Inquiry as a Way of Life; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Chapter Four: The Right to High Quality Instruction and School Leadership; Right Number 5: The right to an excellent and dedicated teacher; Why Don't We Ask the Teachers?; Elevating Teaching; Practical Idealism Works; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Right Number 6: The right to a school leader with vision and educational expertise; Leadership for 21st-Century Schools; National Educational Leadership; A School Without Vision Is Lost; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Chapter Five: The Right to World-Class 21st-Century Curriculum and Technology; Right Number 7: The right to a curriculum based on relevance, depth, and flexibility; Boredom--The Lucky Two Percent; Virtual Socrates; Eradicating Boredom; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Right Number 8: The right of access to the most powerful educational technologies; Learning in the Electronic Era; Why a Right to 21st-Century Communication Technologies?; Technology, Technopoly, and Cyber Sanity; What Would Socrates Say?; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Chapter Six: The Right to Equality of Educational Opportunity; Right Number 9: The right to fair, relevant, and learner-based evaluations; In the Belly of the Beast; Why a Right to Fair Evaluation?; The Einstein Factor, the Picasso Possibility, and the Sanctity of Natural Genius; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Right Number 10: The right to complete high school; The Tragic Consequences of Educational Neglect; Why a Right to Graduate?; What Would the Founders Say?; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Chapter Seven: The Right to Good Government; 21st-Century Government and a "Sense of the People"; A New Department of Education---A National "Seminary of Learning"; Organizing for Learning; The Dream Recaptured; Book Study Questions; Possible Action Steps; Suggested Further Reading; Resource 1: The Historic Issue of Equity and Excellence; Resource 2: The Virginia Declaration of Rights; Resource 3: Education and the Peace Dividend; Resource 4: Principles of Multicultural Education; References; Index;
• Publisher Details: Thousand Oaks : Corwin
• Publication Date: 2011
• Extent: 1 online resource (160 pages)
• Subjects: 370.1; Education -- United States -- Philosophy; Educational sociology -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781452238388; 1452238383
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
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