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Index
COVER
TITLE
CONTENTS
Preface
Introduction: Grappling with Goals
One. The Purposes of Schooling
1. What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?
2. Turning Learning into a Business
3. The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement
Two. Standards and Testing
4. Confusing Harder with Better
5. Beware of the Standards, Not Just the Tests
6. Standardized Testing and Its Victims
7. Sacrificing Learning for Higher Scores
8. Two Cheers for an End to the SAT
Three. Grading and Evaluating
9. From Degrading to De-Grading
10. The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation
11. Five Reasons to Stop Saying “Good Job!”
Four. Moral, Social, and Psychological Questions
12. Constant Frustration and Occasional Violence—The Legacy of American High Schools
13. September 11
14. A Fresh Look at Abraham Maslow
Five. School Reform and the Study of Education
15. Almost There, But Not Quite
16. Education’s Rotten Apples
17. The Folly of Merit Pay
18. Professors Who Profess—Making a Difference as Scholar-Activists
Credits
Index
COPYRIGHT
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