Academic Achievement Challenge : What Really Works In The Classroom? - 00 edition

"A notable education book of 2000....If a school district could choose one person over the past generation to offer advice on educational strategies, the smart money would be on the late Jeanne Chall....This book is a must for people who work in--and run--schools."

--American School Board Journal

"Chall wants teachers to tap the entire spectrum of education ideas--to draw on a wide range of classroom practices regardless of their ideological points of origin. In the end, this call for open-mindedness may be her most important legacy."

--Teacher Magazine

"For school psychologists, teachers, administrators, and parents, this book can provide a clear answer to the question, 'What works in the classroom?'. The next step is to do it."

--School Psychology Quarterly

"It would create a revolution in American education if every teacher, parent, and school board member were to read this book."

--Diane Ravitch, PhD

"The capstone work of a great scholar."

--E.D. Hirsch, Jr., PhD

"In her last book, Jeanne Chall brings her vast experience with the field of education and her rigorous scholarship to bear on what has become the hottest topic of the day....This book may well define the educational debates of the next decade."

--Andrew Biemiller, PhD

Guilford Press Web Site, August, 2003

Foreword, Marilyn Jager Adams

1. Academic Achievement: An American Dilemma
2. Traditional, Teacher-Centered Education versus Progressive, Student-Centered Education
3. Twentieth-Century Trends in Educational Policy: The Shift toward Student-Centered Programs
4. Trends in Specific Areas of the Curriculum: Reading, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies, 1900 to the 1990s
5. Research on the Overall Effects of Teacher- and Student-Centered Educational Programs
6. Descriptive Studies of Early Educational Experiments
7. Student-Centered Education: From Theory to Practice
8. Socioeconomic and Learning Difference Effects
9. Parents, the Media, and other Nonschool Educators
10. Where Do We Go from Here? Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix: Key Differences between Teacher-Centered and Student-Centered Instruction