Kaleidoscope : readings in education / Kevin Ryan & James M. Cooper.

Contents;

Part one: Teachers
1. The influence of teachers
2. Calling in the cosmos
3. Selecting "star" teachers for children and youth in urban poverty
4. National board certification and the teaching profession's commitment to quality assurance
5. Why I entered teaching, why I stay
6. Letter from a teacher
etc.

Part two: Students
11. Who is this child?
12. Defending America's children
13. Investing in creativity: Many happy returns
14. What do students want (and what really motivates them)?
15. Problem students: The sociocultural roots
16. How to create discipline problems
etc.

Part three: Schools
18. Mythology and the American system of education
19. Looking at good schools
20. The big benefits of smallness
21. First things first: What Americans expect from the public schools
22. Being unspecial in the shopping mall high school
etc.

Part four: Curriculum
26. The Saber-tooth curriculum
27. The quality school curriculum
28. Affective education or none at all
29. The Paidea proposal: Rediscovering the essence of education
30. Developing a common curriculum
etc.

Part five: Instruction
36. Students need challenge, not easy success
37. Probing the subtleties of subject-matter teaching
38. What research on learning tells us about teaching
39. Cooperative learning and the cooperative school
40. What's all the noise about? Constructivism in the classroom
41. Engaging students: What I learned along the way
etc.

Part six: Foundations
45. My pedagogic creed
46. The educated person
47. The basis of education
48. The free and happy student
49. Personal thoughts on teaching and learning
50. The ethics of teaching
51. The teacher's ten commandments: School law in the classroom
etc.

Part seven: Educational reform
54. New hope for high schools: Lessons from reform-minded educators
55. What matters most: A competent teacher for every child
56. The who, what, and why of site-based management
57. Where in the world are world-class standards?
58. The power of innovative scheduling
etc.

Part eight: Educational technology
62. School reform in the information age
63. From the lagging to the leading edge
64. Research summary: Educational electronic networks
65. Exploring the internet safely - What schools can do
66. Technology and equity issues
etc.

Part nine: Social currents
68. Parent participation: Fad or function?
69. Multiculturalism: E Pluribus Plures
70. Where we stand on the rush to inclusion
71. What do I do now? A teacher's guide to including students with disabilities
72. Shortchanging girls and boys
etc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.