Getting it wrong on threats to teacher quality

Phi Delta Kappan

Volumn 87, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 302-305

  Torff, Bruce ^a  

^a HOFSTRA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 29144514648     PISSN: 00317217     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/003172170508700409     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. Lee Shulman, "Knowledge and Teaching: Foundations of the New Reform," Harvard Educational Review, vol. 57, 1987, pp. 1-22.
2. Martin L. Gross, The Conspiracy of Ignorance: The Failure of American Public Schools (New York: HarperCollins, 1999);
3. Frederick Hess and Chester E. Finn, Jr., eds., Leaving No Child Behind?: Options for Kids in Failing Schools (New York: Macmillan, 2004);
4. E. D. Hirsch, Jr., The Schools We Need and Why We Don't Have Them (New York: Doubleday, 1996);
5. Marci Kanstoroom and Chester E. Finn, Jr., eds., Better Teachers, Better Schools (Washington, D.C.: Fordham Foundation, 1999);
6. Rita Kramer, Ed School Follies: The Miseducation of America's Teachers (New York: Free Press, 1991);
7. Diane Ravitch, Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000);
8. and Charles J. Sykes, Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good About Themselves but Can't Read, Write, or Add (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995).
9. Chester E. Finn, Jr., "Foreword," in Kanstoroom and Finn, p. 3.
10. Marci Kanstoroom, "Boosting Teacher Quality: A Common Sense Proposal," testimony before the Subcommittee on Postsecondary Education of die Committee on Education and the Workforce, U.S. House of Representatives, 13 May 1999.
11. The Fordham Foundation, "The Teachers We Need and How to Get More of Them," in Kanstoroom and Finn, p. 7.
12. The Teachers We Need and How to Get More of Them Ibid., p. 12.
13. Bruce Torff and David Sessions, "Causes of Teacher Ineffectiveness," Journal of Educational Psychology, in press.
14. Arguments in favor of learner-centered pedagogy can be found in the following: Jerome Bruner, The Process of Education (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1963);
15. John Dewey, My Pedagogic Creed (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1929);
16. and Nadine M. Lambert and Barbara L. McCombs, eds., How Students Learn: Reforming Schools Through Learner-Centered Instruction (Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association, 1998).