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Cockeyed Education

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2010-01-16

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1607094363

Should educators pay students? Should they make them wear sunglasses, regulate their clothing, allow them to bring animals into classrooms, discourage them from playing videogames, or transform their schools into gymnasiums? These are some of the suggestions that Cockeyed Education examines. This book enables readers to differentiate substantive from cockeyed suggestionsfor improving schools.. It directs them to the suggestions that scholastic experts, politicians, and members of the public have made. Additionally, it introduces them to the case method. It helps them apply this analytical technique to events that range from early Chicago schooling to the 2009 economic stimulus package.

Cockeyed Education

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2010-01-16

Total Pages: 175

ISBN-13: 1607094347

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Common Sense Questions about School Administration

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2015-03-06

Total Pages: 173

ISBN-13: 1475812620

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Parents have questions for school administrators. They want to know how they hire teachers, erect facilities, select learning materials, protect students, allocate budgets, use data, make forecasts, measure progress, and compete with for-profit schools. This book examines the questions they pose, the answers they elicit, the allies they attract, the adversaries they arouse, and the improvements they prod.

Parents and School Technology

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2021-05-15

Total Pages: 137

ISBN-13: 1475852274

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Parents had reasons to be alarmed about school technology. They had been warned that these abuses could influence their children’s academic progress, motivation, communication, creativity, critical thinking, job preparedness, and even their safety at school. They had been told that it was linked to controversial instruction, faulty testing, inadequate textbooks, and invasive spyware. Upset by these claims, the parents had numerous questions. This book identifies their questions, the groups to which they directed them, the answers they elicited, and the educational changes they prompted.

Lopsided Schools

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2011-01-16

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1607097885

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Lopsided Schools introduces readers to the case method and helps the reader to use the case method to examine the scholastic challenges that critics posed from World War I to the present. Some critics have stirred up educators with threats to reduce their budgets or fire them. Others upset them with disconcerting questions. Should parents demand that their children learn speed reading? Should teachers emphasize vocational activities? Should principals train their own successors? Should superintendents award bonuses to teachers? Should employers hire the graduates with the highest scores on standardized tests? Should politicians assume greater responsibility for schooling? Should journalists publicize information about lopsided schools? This book examines these and the numerous other questions that critics posed.

Commonsense Questions about Instruction

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2014-01-30

Total Pages: 177

ISBN-13: 1475805101

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Parents want teachers to explain how they instruct children. They become annoyed when the teachers are silent or surly. Parents counter with explicit, common sense questions: how do teachers arouse interest, design curricula, reinforce discipline, assign grades, designate textbooks, and select technology? This book examines the parents' questions, the answers they elicited, the allies they attracted, and the improvements they initiated.

Parents and Textbooks

Author: Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2019-03-26

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13: 1475838980

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This book focuses on the questions that parents recently have posed about textbooks.

Common Sense Questions About Learners

Author: Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2017-05-24

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 1475830157

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This books highlights the questions that parents have posed about learners. It also highlights the groups that responded to their question, the answers they gave, the rhetoric in which they couched their answers, and their motives.

Common Sense Questions about Tests

Author: Gerard Giordano, PhD, professor of education, University of North Florida

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2016-03-07

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 1475821492

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Parents had questions about the tests their children took at school. They considered them to be common sense questions. They posed them to the businesspeople, publishers, and politicians who championed tests. They also posed them to the school administrators, teachers, and union leaders who criticized them. This book examines the questions the parents posed, the answers they elicited, and the changes they prodded.

Capping Costs

Author: Gerard Giordano

Publisher: R&L Education

Published: 2011-12-16

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1610484460

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Early and recent school reformers demanded greater funding. They insisted that they needed it to protect children, the economy, and the nation. This book uses the case method to analyze the budgets that they proposed, the rhetoric that they employed, and the resistance that they encountered.