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Tables of Contents for What to Look for in a Classroom
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
ix
Part One: Classroom Mismanagement
1
44
The Limits of Teaching Skills
3
5
The Trouble with School Uniforms
8
3
Beyond Discipline
11
5
How Not to Teach Values: A Critical Look at Character Education
16
29
Part Two: American Ideology Goes to School
45
64
Resistance to Cooperative Learning: Making Sense of Its Deletion and Dilution
47
22
``A Lot of Fat Kids Who Don't Like to Read'': The Effects of Pizza Hut's Book It! Program and Other Reading Incentives
69
4
Grading: The Issue Is Not How But Why
73
9
Grade Inflation and Other Red Herrings
82
3
Only for My Kid: How Privileged Parents Undermine School Reform
85
24
Part Three: Unquestioned Assumptions About Children
109
78
Suffer the Restless Children: Unsettling Questions About the ADHD Label
111
24
The Truth About Self-Esteem
135
31
Television and Children: ReViewing the Evidence
166
21
Part Four: Business as Usual
187
38
The Five-Hundred-Pound Gorilla
189
18
The False Premises of School Choice Plans
207
3
Students Don't ``Work''---They Learn
210
5
The Littlest Customers: TQM Goes to School
215
10
Part Five: Lessons Learned
225
56
Caring Kids: The Role of the Schools
227
22
Choices for Children: Why and How to Let Students Decide
249
28
What to Look for in a Classroom
277
4
Index
281
8
The Author
289