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RECOMMENDED READING
 Basic
Texts
Facilities
NYC
Schools
Smaller
Classes
Standards
State
Funding Equity
Teaching
Vouchers
Useful
All-Around Links
BASIC TEXTS
Kozol, Jonathan. Savage
Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools.
HarperPerennial Library, 1992.
Margolis, Edwin and Stanley Moses. The
Elusive Quest: The Struggle for Equality of Educational Opportunity.
New York: The Apex Press, 1992.
Meier, Kenneth J. and Robert E. England.
Race, Class, and Education. Madison, Wisconsin:
University of Wisconsin Press, 1989.
New York State of Learning: A Report
to the Governor and the Legislature on the Educational Status of the
State’s Schools.
New York: The University of the State of New York/The State Education
Department, 2000.
FACILITIES
Federal proposals to aid school construction
http://www.ed.gov/inits/construction/index.html
NYC SCHOOLS
Parents Guide To New York
City’s Best Public Elementary Schools
By: Clara Hemphill
Public education researcher Hemphill profiles the top 100 NYC elementary
schools.
The book details class size, ethnic make up, total enrollment, academic
level, teacher quality and admissions tests (if any) information, and
offers anecdotes about the nature and personalities of the schools.
Soho Press, 1997.
Public Middle Schools: New York City’s
Best
By Clara Hemphill
Public schools in the five boroughs are described in anecdotal information
and also simple facts: school performance, test scores, grade levels
(which include high school), class size, ethnic make up, enrollment,
admissions requirements, teaching philosophies, when to apply and how
to choose. Soho Press, 1999.
Academic Performance, Characteristics
and Expenditures in New York City Elementary and Middle Schools.
By: Leanna Steifel, Amy Ellen Schwartz,
Patrice Iatarola, and Norm Fruchter. New York: The Education Finance
Research Consortium, Spring 2000. http://www.albany.edu/edfin/StiefelCR.PDF
NYC SCHOOLS Online Links
NYC Board of Education
http://www.nycenet.edu/daa/dpip/index.html
Public School Reports
is an authoritative on-line guide offered by Advocates for Children
of New York. The site describes what your neighborhood school is like,
what your alternatives are, and how to navigate the bureaucracy to
find the best school for your child.
http://www.publicschoolreports.org
Find the top-rated high schools in the Following
Performance Areas: Graduation Rate, SAT Scores (Math), SAT Scores
http://www.chinatown-online.com/services/education/best.htm
SMALLER CLASSES
Smaller Classes, Not Vouchers, Increase
Student Achievement.
By: Alex Molnar. Keystone Research Center, 1988. To order the report,
contact: Keystone Research Center, 412 North Third Street, Harrisburg,
PA 17101. Phone: (717) 255-7181. Fax: (717) 255-7193. Internet: KeystoneRC@aol.com.
SMALLER CLASSES Online Links
American Association of
School Administrators links for the evidence for class size reduction.
http://www.aasa.org/issues/classsize/classsize.htm
American Federation of
Teachers report comparing the educational benefits of vouchers
vs. smaller classes.
http://www.aft.org//vouchers/report/index.html
Class Size Matters
a web site dedicated to the relaying the benefits of reducing class
sizes in the early grades.
http:// www.picket/com/class/
New American Prospect
article by Christopher Jencks and Meredith Phillips on the Black-White
Achievement Gap, which argues that class size reduction may be one
of the most effective ways to begin to close the gap.
http://www.prospect.org/archives/40/40jencnf.html
NYC Public Advocate's
Office report on the facilities crisis in NYC public schools,
"No Room to Learn."
http://pubadvocate.nyc.gov/documents/overcap.htm
Policy.com has its
own links to information about class size
http://www.policy.com/issuewk/1999/1005_97/detail725.html
Tennessee STAR Study
Education Week article describing
the most recent results of the STAR research, showing lasting benefits
through high school for students who had been in smaller classes in
the early grades.
http://www.edweek.org/ew/1999/34class.h18
Mosteller, Frederick. (Harvard statistician.)
An excellent summary of the original Tennessee STAR study.
http://www.futureofchildren.org/cri/08cri.htm
Project Star: The pivotal
Tennessee research on class size reduction.
http://www.telalink.net/~heros/star.htm
U.S. Dept. of Education class size page.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/ClassSize/
U.S. Dept of Education
summary on class size research by Jeremy Finn.
http://www.ed.gov/pubs/ClassSize/index.html
U.S. Dept of Education
myths and realities.
http://www.ed.gov/offices/OESE/ClassSize/myths.html
WestEd's
links on class size reduction.
http://www.wested.org/policy/hot_top/csr/ht_tp_csr.htm
Wisconsin
SAGE study
on class size reduction.
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/CERAI/sage.html
STANDARDS
An Analysis of Two Educational Policies
in New York State: Performance Standards and Property Tax Relief.
By: William Duncombe and John Yinger. New York
State Board of Regents Final Report: Educational Finance to Support
Higher Learning Standards. New York: The University of the State
of New York/The State Education Department, 1998.
Before the Bell: Education Gaps in Lower
Grades Threaten High School Graduation.
An investigative report by Mark Green, Public Advocate
of New York City. August 2000.
http://www.pubadvocate.nyc.gov/padcdetail.cfm?id1=7&id2=204
The Implementation of Demanding High
School Graduation Requirements: An Update from New York State.
By: David H. Monk and Samid Hussain. Albany: The
Education Finance Research Consortium, September 2000.
http://www.albany.edu/edfin/monk_cond1.PDF
Math and Science Programs: Making Them
Count
City of New York Office of the Comptroller, March
1999.
Success for All Does Not Produce Success
for Students.
By: Dr. Stanley Pogrow. Phi Delta Kappan, September
2000.
http://www.hots.org/Articles/Admin_advice.html
Resource Allocation Implications of
Increased High School Graduation Expectations.
By: David H. Monk and Samid Hussain. New York
State Board of Regents Final Report: Educational Finance to Support
Higher Learning Standards. New York: The University of the State
of New York/The State Education Department, 1998.
STANDARDS Online Links
Advocates for Children
- a good web site providing information on NYC school system, including
the New Standards, retention policy, and special education issues.
www.advocatesforchildren.org
The Students, the Assessments, and
the Phase-In: Who will be affected by What and When?
NYSUT Info Bulletin No. 990026. August 2000. http://www.pubadvocate.nyc.gov/padcdetail.cfm?id1=7&id2=204
STATE FUNDING EQUITY
School Finance: State Efforts to Reduce
Funding Gaps Between Poor and Wealthy Districts.
United States General Accounting Office Report to
Congressional Requesters. Health Education and Human Services Division.
February 1997. GAO/HEHS-97-31.
STATE FUNDING EQUITY Online Links
Campaign for Fiscal Equity (CFE)
- http://www.cfequity.org
TEACHING
Different Drummers: How Teachers View
Public Education.
By: Steve Farkas and Jean Johnson with Ann Duffett.
New York: Public Agenda, 1997.
Read a summary of the report at:
http://www.publicagenda.org/aboutpa/aboutpa3i.htm
Investing in Teacher Learning: Staff
Development and Instructional Improvement in Community School District
#2, New York City.
By: Richard F. Elmore and Deanna Burney. New York:
National Commission on Teaching & America’s Future, August
1997.
The Labor Market for Public School Teachers:
A Descriptive Analysis of New York State’s Teacher Workforce.
By: Hamilton Lankford, James Wyckoff, and Frank Papa.
New York: The Education Finance Research Consortium, October 2000.
http://www.albany.edu/edfin/LWP_cond1rev.PDF
Math and Science Programs: Making Them
Count
City of New York Office of the Comptroller, March
1999.
Public School Teacher Cost Differences
Across the United States
By: Jay Chambers and William J. Fowler. National
Center for Education Statistics Analysis Methodology Report. U.S. Department
of Education Office of Educational Research and Improvement, October
1995.
(For sale by the U.S. Government Printing Office/ Superintendent of
Documents/ Mail Stop: SSOP/ Washington DC 20402-9328).
Rethinking the Allocation of Teaching
Resources: Some Lessons from High Performing Schools.
By: Karen Hawley Miles and Linda Darling-Hammond.
Philadelphia: Consortium for Policy Research in Education Publications,
1997.
(For a copy of the report send $12 to CPRE Publications/ University
of Pennsylvania/ Grad. School of Education/ 3440 Market St./Philadelphia,
PA 1904-3325).
A Sense of Calling: Who Teaches and
Why
By: Steve Farkas, Jean Johnson and Tony Foleno, with
Ann Duffett and Patrick Foley. New York: Public Agenda, 2000.
Order report for $10 from Public Agenda’s web site:
http://www.publicagenda.org/aboutpa/aboutpa8a.htm
What Matters Most: Teaching for America’s
Future.
New York: National Commission on Teaching & America’s
Future, 1996.
(For a copy of the report send $18 to The National Commission for Teaching
& America’s Future/ PO Box 5239/ Woodbridge, VA 22194).
Who Should Teach in New York’s
Public Schools? Implications of Pennsylvania’s Teachers Preparation
and Selection Experience.
By: Robert P. Straus. New York State Board of
Regents Final Report: Educational Finance to Support Higher Learning
Standards. New York: The University of the State of New York/The
State Education Department, 1998.
Teaching Online Links
United Federation of Teachers (UFT).
With more than 140,000 members, the UFT is the
sole bargaining agent for most of the non-supervisory educators who
work in the New York City public schools. http://www.uft.org/
VOUCHERS
American Association of School Administrators.
"Vouchers:
Who's Behind It All?"
Emergency Campaign Against Vouchers. Know
the Facts About School Vouchers.
Molnar, Alex. Smaller
Classes, Not Vouchers, Increase Student Achievement.
Keystone Research Center, 1988. To order the report, contact: Keystone
Research Center, 412 North Third Street, Harrisburg, PA 17101. Phone:
(717) 255-7181. Fax: (717) 255-7193. Internet: KeystoneRC@aol.com.
People for the American Way. Theory
in Practice: School Vouchers in Real Life.
April 20, 1999.
VOUCHER Online Links
AltaVista Master Links site
http://dir.altavista.com/Reference/Education/School_Choice.shtml
Electronic
Policy Network
www.epn.org/issues/vouchers.html
National Center for the Study of Privatization
in Education. Columbia University.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/ncspe/mainTXT.htm
National Education Association
www.nea.org/info/vouch.html
Ohio University Master Links Site
http://dir.altavista.com/society/issues/education/shtml
People for
the American Way
www.faw.org/issues/education
Rethinking
Schools
www.rethinkingschools.org/Links/vouclink/htm
USEFUL ALL-AROUND EDUCATION LINKS
Columbia University’s Teachers
College Research and Service Web Page.
http://www.tc.columbia.edu/ncspe/mainTXT.html
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