Will Standards Save Public Education?

by Deborah Meier

Somewhere. . . there is a place of sanity where education is intense and substantive. . . . It's in that place that Deborah Meier has been working all these years. Her voice conveys a life of struggle in the front lines-victories and losses, hopes and disappointments. . . . It's a voice our nation needs to hear. --Jonathan Kozol, from the Foreword

Acclaimed educator Deborah Meier offers a fresh take on standardized tests. While others have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807004413
• ISBN13: 9780807004418
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Beacon Press
• Length: 106 Pages
• Weight: 0.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

The Standards Debate

This is one of the few books that relly looks at various sides of the debate about standards and standardization. Meier begins with a well resoned reivew of what the arguments for standardization are, and then why she believes that these actually get in the way of achieving high standards. Her article is then followed up with 5 other viewpoints on this debate.