What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?

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Summary

One of education's best-known observers assembles a hard-hitting collection of essays on school and schooling.

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Preface
Introduction: Grappling with Goals
The Purposes of Schooling
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?	p. 1
Turning Learning into a Business	p. 11
The Costs of Overemphasizing Achievement	p. 28
Standards and Testing
Confusing Harder and Better	p. 41
Beware of the Standards, Not Just the Tests	p. 46
Standardized Testing and Its Victims	p. 54
Sacrificing Learning for Higher Scores	p. 62
Two Cheers for an End to the SAT	p. 65
Grading and Evaluating
From Degrading to De-Grading	p. 75
The Dangerous Myth to Grade Inflation	p. 93
Five Reasons to Stop Saying "Good Job!"	p. 106
Moral, Social, and Psychological Questions
Constant Frustration and Occasional Violence: The Legacy of American High Schools	p. 117
September 11	p. 128
A Fresh Look at Abraham Maslow	p. 131
School Reform and the Study of Education
Almost There, But Not Quite	p. 151
Education's Rotten Apples	p. 159
The Folly of Merit Pay	p. 166
Professors Who Profess	p. 174
Credits	p. 185
Index	p. 188
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