Education Issues and Suggested Reading

diversity/desegregation
"School integration helps in game of life"
"Why It's Right to Remember Brown"
"Who Benefits from Diversity in Higher Education?"

gender and education
"The Trouble with Boys"
"Are Boys Really in Crisis?" (the study that goes with this debate is interesting too)
"Intellectual Gender Gap?"
"Brain Differences" 

reading first (the program that awarded Polk its 3-year grant)
"Build on Louisiana's Early Success with Reading First"
"Reading Last"
"The Education Issue"

sex education in public schools
"Abstinence-Only Education Continues to Flourish"
"Abstinence Education: Myths and the Truth"

  teacher education
"Educating School Teachers"

teacher pay/teacher shortage
"Recognizing Differences" (an argument for merit pay)
"Of Teacher Shortages and Quality"
"How Merit Pay Squelches Teaching"
"School's Out" (a recent look at the teacher shortage)

miscellaneous (articles we discussed in class)
"What Our Education System Needs Is More Fs"
"Let Teens Try Adulthood"
"The Wages of Teaching"
"Why We Need a National School Test"
"Not Just a Test"


Other issues you might be interested in seeking out yourself:
School choice/Vouchers/Charter Schools
Service-Learning in Higher Education
Standardized Testing
Gifted Education

 





 

 

“I believe that the truth about any subject only comes when all the sides of the story are put together, and all their different meanings make one new one. Each writer writes the missing parts to the other writer’s story. And the whole story is what I’m after.”

             --Alice Walker