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What is the state of education in America today? And where is it headed? What is the real state of education in America today? And where is it headed? The Brookings Institution, long noted for its pathbreaking work on education policy, introduces a series of annual volumes that provide the inside story on education's most important issues. In each annual edition, leading experts offer jargon-free, in-depth analyses of a wide range of topics in education, along with fresh ideas, thought-provoking opinions, and invaluable insight. They offer unprecedented access to the policies, decisions, and viewpoints that are shaping our current education system and our plans for the 21st century. Edited by Diane Ravitch, one of the nation's foremost education authorities, Brookings Papers on Education Policy is an indispensable guide to understanding education trends and emerging issues. Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1998 includes: "An Examination of American Student Achievement from an International Perspective" by Harold Stevenson, University of Michigan "An Assessment of the Scholarly Debate about Achievement" by Lawrence Stedman, State University of New York "Upgrading High School Mathematics and Science" by Andrew Porter, University of Wisconsin, Madison "Uncompetitive American Schools: Causes and Cures" by Herbert Walberg, University of Illinois "Radical Constructivism, Mathematics Education, and Cognitive Psychology" by John Anderson, Lynne Reder, and Herb Simon, Carnegie Mellon University "The Uses and Misuses of Education Research by Policymakers at State and Local Levels" by Tom Loveless, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University "Standards Outside the Classroom" by Lawrence Steinberg, Temple University "The Extent and Cost of Remediation in Higher Education" by David W. Breneman, University of Virginia School of Education

With two tours of Iraq under his belt, Sergeant Dave Henley knows what modern war looks like. But nothing can prepare him for the posting to Forward Operating Base Senzhiri, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. This is a battlezone like he's never seen before. He's in charge of 1 Platoon, a ragbag collection of rookies who he must make into a fighting force - and fast. But this is a brutal, unforgiving conflict which takes no prisoners. Their convoy is ambushed on the way to the FOB, leaving two men grievously Brookings Papers on Education Policy: 1998 free ebook wounded - before they've fired a shot. Back at home, Dave's wife, Jenny, seven months pregnant, must try to hold together the fragile lives of the families left behind, who all wait for the knock on the door and the arrival of bad news... Given exactly one week to prove his case, Bell quickly finds himself pitted against two of the most ruthless opponents he has ever known men of staggering ambition and cold-bloodedness who are not about to let some wet-behind-the-ears detective stand in their way."

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Author: Diane Ravitch
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Published Date: 01 Jan 1998
Publisher: BROOKINGS INSTITUTION
Publication Country: Washington DC, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9780815711834
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