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The Last Word: The Best Commentary and Controversy in American Education
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EDUCATION WEEK has been the newspaper of record for preK-12 education for the past 25 years.  Covering education-related news, policy, and new research and practice, this weekly publication has over 200,000 readers, and its online component, EdWeek.org, averages over 1.2 million page views per month.

Education Week is the flagship publication of Editorial Projects in Education (EPE), a nonprofit organization whose primary mission is to help raise the level of awareness and understanding among professionals and the public of important issues in American education.  EPE first gained prominence for launching The Chronicle of Higher Education (later sold to its editors) which is the newspaper of record for higher education.  Currently, EPE also publishes the monthly Teacher Magazine, annual reports on education quality, and a new job web site for educators called "Agent K-12."

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Foreword by Jay Mathews. Preface. PART ONE: THE ART OF TEACHING. 1. Epitaph for an English Teacher (Howard Good). 2. "Too Smart to Be a Teacher" (James R. Delisle). 3. No More Silver Bullets: Let's Fix Teacher Education (Vartan Gregorian). 4. Increase Class Size and Pay Teachers More (Saul Cooperman). PART TWO: EQUITY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE. 5. The National Responsibility for Equality of Educational Opportunity (John Hope Franklin). 6. Census 2000 Is Coming! (Harold Hodgkinson). 7. The Legacy of All Deliberate Speed (Pedro Noguera & Robert Cohen). 8. Racism Explained to My White Daughter (Patricia M. Cooper). PART THREE: TESTING WELL, TESTING FAIRLY. 9. By All Measures: Coming to Terms on World-Class Standards (Albert Shanker). 10. By All Measures: Just Another False Chase (Deborah Meier). 11. Is There a Standard for Meeting Standards? (Lewis A. Rhodes). 12. The Need for Anti-Babel Standards (Howard Gardner). 13. Confusing Harder with Better (Alfie Kohn). 14. The Tests We Need (E. D. Hirsch). 15. Multiple Measures (Ron Wolk). PART FOUR: CURRICULUM IN THE CLASSROOM. 16. Curriculum Mood Swings (Anne Wescott Dodd). 17. Why Ignore the Forms of Art (Maxine Greene). 18. Rescue the Wonder of the Printed Page: Our Kids are Smarter Than the Books We Give Them (Joy Hakim). 19. In Defense of Whimsy (Jane Dimyan-Ehrenfeld). PART FIVE: TECHNOLOGY AND LEARNING. 20. Black to the Future (Henry Louis Gates). 21. The Technology Puzzle (Larry Cuban). 22. Seeking Edutopia (Milton Chen). 23. Preparing Students for Work in a Computer-Filled Economy (Frank Levy & Richard J. Murnane). @ PART SIX: DEMOCRACY AND VIRTUE. 24. Teaching Integrity: The Boundaries of Moral Education (Edwin J. Delattre). 25. Helping Children with Scary News--Written in 1991 in Response to the Persian Gulf War (Fred Rogers and Hedda Bluestone Sharapan). 26. Teaching the "Other Half" of Democracy’s Story (Ralph Nader). 27. Now Is the Time to Teach Democracy (Diane Ravitch). 28. Teaching for Wisdom in Our Schools (Robert Sternberg). PART SEVEN: CHANGE AND REFORM. 29. A Nation in Wait (John I. Goodlad). 30. Questioning Cliches of Education Reform (Chester E. Finn). 31. On Lame Horses and Tortoises (Theodore R. Sizer). 32. Is the ComprehensiveHigh School Doomed (W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson). 33. Seek Simplicity . . . and Distrust It (Lee S. Shulman). PART EIGHT: CHARTERS AND CHOICE. 34. Creating an Entrepreneurial School System (Marc S. Tucker). 35. Make Public Schools More Like Private (Adam Urbanski). 36. Charter Schools: Escape or Reform (Marc Dean Millot, Paul T. Hill, and RobinLake). 37. For-Profit Schooling: Where’s the Public Good (Linda Darling-Hammond). 38. Competing for Our Clients (Dorothy Rich). PART NINE: INSPIRING LEADERSHIP. 39. Schools Must Reconnect Pupils, Cultivate Leadership for Change (Bill Clinton). 40. Old Questions Will Produce Old Answers to the Problem of Educational Leadership (Allen Berger). 41. Pooling Our Resources (Suzanne Tingley). 42. The Principalship: Looking for Leaders in a Time of Change (Mildred Collins Pierce and Leslie T. Fenwick).
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"New and seasoned professionals will appreciate the range and variety of this volume, which includes some of the best editorials on education issues from the 1980s to the present." (Curriculum Connections, Spring 2008)

"The last Word will provide administrators with much to think about and should lead to some interesting discussions as policy decisions are contemplated." (The School Administrator, 04/2008)

"The Last Word is a collection of thoughtful and though-provoking essays/editorials…" (Childhood Education, Sumer 2008)

"An Excellent summary of the debates in education from the 1980s to the present, recommended for public and academic libraries." (Library Journal)

"For the past 25 years, Education Week's "Commentary" section has served as a bellwether of education in America. The newspaper's editors have here gathered the best opinion pieces by some of the most important figures in American education and culture to create a retrospective of probably the most turbulent and critical period in the history of education. Contributors ranging from the late Fred Rogers to Bill Clinton to educator and academic literary critic E.D. Hirsch Jr. address a gamut of educational issues and provide a wide range of opinion and insight. The editorials are divided into broad areas: the art of teaching, equity and social justice, testing fairly, curriculum, democracy and virtue, change and reform, charters and school choice, and inspiring leadership. An excellent summary of the debates in education from the 1980s to the present; recommended for public and academic libraries."
—Mark Bay, University of the Cumberlands Library, Williamsburg, KY
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