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The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"
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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780070013773 Book cover for 9780395940396
 
from Houghton Mifflin (September 7, 1999)
9780395940396 | details & prices | 344 pages | 6.25 × 9.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.40 lbs | List price $24.00
About: Argues against the 'tougher standards' rhetoric and the current practice of teaching to standarized tests in favor of helping students become more critical, creative thinkers
With Andrew Alpern, Seymour B. Durst | from McGraw-Hill (January 1, 1984); titled "Holdouts!"
9780070013773 | details & prices | List price $44.00
This edition also contains Holdouts!
About: Examines the resistance of property owners in New York City to selling to real estate developers, who plan to tear down the buildings and construct new ones in their place
Paperback
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from Mariner Books (September 5, 2000); titled "The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and Tougher Standards"
9780618083459 | details & prices | 6.00 × 8.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.90 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Arguing against the 'tougher standards' rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning.