The academic achievement challenge : what really works in the classroom? /
"This volume addresses one of the central issues in education: how best to instruct our students. From the late Jeanne S. Chall, a leading figure in American education, the book reviews and evaluates the many educational reforms and innovations that have been proposed and employed over the past...
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Guilford Press,
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Table of Contents:
- Academic achievement: An American dilemma
- Traditional, teacher-centered education versus progressive, student-centered education
- Twentieth-century trends in educational policy: The shift toward student-centered programs
- Trends in reading, mathematics, science, and social studies, 1900 to the 1990s
- Research on the overall effects of teacher- and student-centered educational programs
- Descriptive studies of early educational experiments
- Student-centered education: From theory to practice
- Socioeconomic and learning difference effects
- Parents, the media, and other nonschool educators
- Where do we go from here: Conclusions and recommendations
- Appendix: Key differences between teacher-centered and student-centered instruction.