Education Flashpoints: Fighting for America’s Schools - Softcover

Singer, Alan J.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415743850 ISBN 13: 9780415743853

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

Drawing on his widely read Huffington Post columns―rated one of the top educational blogs in the United States―Alan Singer introduces readers to contemporary issues in education in the United States. The issues are presented with a point of view and an edge intended to promote widespread classroom debate and discussion. Each section opens with a new topical summary essay followed by a series of brief essays updated and adapted from Huffington Post columns. The book includes guest contributions, guiding questions, and responses to essays by teacher education students and teachers to further classroom discussion. Education Flashpoints is written in a conversational style that draws readers into a series of debates by presenting issues in a clear and concise manner, but also with a touch of irony and a bit of rhetorical bite. The topics examined in these essays read like the latest newspaper headlines in the battle to define public education in the United States.

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About the Author

Alan J. Singer is Professor of Secondary Education and coordinator of Social Studies Education in the Department of Teaching, Literacy and Leadership, Hofstra University, USA.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415743850
• ISBN 13: 9780415743853
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 210