Twentieth Century Reading Education: Understanding Practices of Today in Terms of Patterns of the Past
Twentieth Century Reading Education: Understanding Practices of Today in Terms of Patterns of the Past

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-09-13

Total Pages: 423

ISBN-13: 9004454128

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Examines twentieth century reading education. This book explores attempts by educators and psychologists to answer theoretical as well as practical questions about why only some students developed literacy skills. It looks at the efforts to prevent reading failure as well as to aid those learners who had not learned to read.

Solving Education's Problems Effectively
Solving Education's Problems Effectively

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 253

ISBN-13: 1578869986

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Rich in practical information about the history of American education, Solving Education's Problems Effectively encourages readers to analyze, prioritize, and synthesize historical information by applying it to current situations. Using more than thirty case studies, Giordano suggests solutions to issues that plague educators across the nation-from textbook quality to gender, race, and religion biases. The case studies are accompanied by activities to prompt educators to higher levels of thinking about the problems they face.

Wartime Schools
Wartime Schools

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: Peter Lang

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780820463551

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The politically conservative educators of World War II dramatically and rapidly altered policies, programs, schedules, learning materials, classroom activities, and the content of academic courses. They motivated students to salvage materials, sell war stamps, grow crops, learn about wartime issues, and take pride in patriotism. They prepared millions of people for the armed services and the defense industries. These accomplishments were possible because the educators were supported by an unprecedented alliance that included teachers, school administrators, industrialists, military personnel, government leaders, and the President himself. After the war, conservative educators continued to portray themselves as home-front warriors waging a life-threatening battle against enduring global dangers. A terrified public accepted this depiction and continued to back them for decades.

Cockeyed Education
Cockeyed Education

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2010-01-16

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1607094363

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Should educators pay students? Should they make them wear sunglasses, regulate their clothing, allow them to bring animals into classrooms, discourage them from playing videogames, or transform their schools into gymnasiums? These are some of the suggestions that Cockeyed Education examines. This book enables readers to differentiate substantive from cockeyed suggestionsfor improving schools.. It directs them to the suggestions that scholastic experts, politicians, and members of the public have made. Additionally, it introduces them to the case method. It helps them apply this analytical technique to events that range from early Chicago schooling to the 2009 economic stimulus package.

Teachers Go to Rehab
Teachers Go to Rehab

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2012-10-04

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1610488598

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Teachers Go to Rehab examines the advice given to teachers from multiple critics both historically and recently. This book looks at the scope, cost, and impact of this advice to teachers, as well as the motives behind it. It poses precise questions about the groups that gave the advice. Who were they? What did they recommend? How did they estimate impact? How did they calculate costs? What aims did they profess? What aims did they conceal? Whom did they attract? Whom did they alienate? When did they succeed? When did they fail?

Lopsided Schools
Lopsided Schools

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2011-01-16

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1607097885

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Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method and helps the reader to use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present. Some critics have stirred up educators with threats to reduce their budgets or fire them. Others upset them with disconcerting questions. Should parents demand that their children learn speed reading? Should teachers emphasize vocational activities? Should principals train their own successors? Should superintendents award bonuses to teachers? Should employers hire the graduates with the highest scores on standardized tests? Should politicians assume greater responsibility for schooling? Should journalists publicize information about lopsided schools? This book examines these and the numerous other questions that critics posed.

Parents and Textbooks
Parents and Textbooks

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1475838980

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Parents wondered exactly what was transpiring in classrooms. Although they asked their children, they did not have complete confidence in their responses. When they quizzed teachers, school administrators, school board members, and politicians, they realized that they sometimes had conflicting interests. They resolved to get the information they wanted on their own: they would examine classroom textbooks. This book recounts the common sense questions that parents posed about these materials.

Parents and School Technology
Parents and School Technology

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1475852274

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Parents had reasons to be alarmed about school technology. They had been warned that these abuses could influence their children’s academic progress, motivation, communication, creativity, critical thinking, job preparedness, and even their safety at school. They had been told that it was linked to controversial instruction, faulty testing, inadequate textbooks, and invasive spyware. Upset by these claims, the parents had numerous questions. This book identifies their questions, the groups to which they directed them, the answers they elicited, and the educational changes they prompted.

Common Sense Questions about School Administration
Common Sense Questions about School Administration

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-03-06

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1475812620

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Parents have questions for school administrators. They want to know how they hire teachers, erect facilities, select learning materials, protect students, allocate budgets, use data, make forecasts, measure progress, and compete with for-profit schools. This book examines the questions they pose, the answers they elicit, the allies they attract, the adversaries they arouse, and the improvements they prod.

Common Sense Questions about Tests
Common Sense Questions about Tests

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 155

ISBN-13: 1475821492

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Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and union leaders who criticized them. This book examines the questions the parents posed, the answers they elicited, and the changes they prodded.