The Academic Achievement Challenge: What Really Works in the Classroom?

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Guilford Press, 01.03.2002 - 210 Seiten
Looks at a variety of education reforms and innovations over the past one hundred years to find the best approach to teaching.
 

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Academic Achievement An American Dilemma
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Traditional TeacherCentered Education versus Progressive StudentCentered Education
15
TwentiethCentury Trends in Educational Policy The Shift toward Student Centered Programs
35
Trends in Reading Mathematics Science and Social Studies 1900 to the 1990s
57
Research on the Overall Effects of Teacher and StudentCentered Educational Programs
79
Descriptive Studies of Early Educational Experiments
101
StudentCentered Education From Theory to Practice
113
Socioeconomic and Learning Difference Effects
135
Parents the Media and Other Nonschool Educators
153
Where Do We Go from Here? Conclusions and Recommendations
169
Key Differences between TeacherCentered and StudentCentered Instruction
187
References
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Index
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About the Author
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Jeanne S. Chall, PhD, was Emeritus Professor of Education at Harvard University Graduate School of Education until her death in 1999. She founded and directed the Harvard Reading Laboratory. Her books include Learning to Read: The Great Debate, Stages of Reading Development, Readability Revisited and the New Dale-Chall Readability Formula, and Qualitative Assessment of Text Difficulty. A member of the National Academy of Education and the Reading Hall of Fame, Dr. Chall served on the Board of Directors of the International Reading Association and the National Society for the Study of Education. She received many awards, including the American Psychological Association's Edward L. Thorndike Award for distinguished psychological contributions to education, the American Educational Research Association Award, the International Reading Association Citation of Merit, and the Samuel T. Orton Award from the Orton Dyslexia Society.

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