The Columbia Guide to Standard American English

Provides a comprehensive overview of spoken and written English, covering word choice, meanings, pronunciation, spelling, grammar, idiomatic expressions, and guidelines for nonsexist usage

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Wilson, Kenneth G.

Dictionaries & Thesauruses

Columbia Univ. Pr.

Kenneth G. Wilson, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist and educational reformer, argues that American public education is dangerously out of step with the demands of today's postindustrial, knowledge-based society. "What educators need most is to find an organizing, driving vision - a new paradigm powerful enough to promise a systematic redesign of American public education." But until we upset traditional assumptions about education, Wilson and coauthor Bennett Daviss warn, necessary reforms will languish regardless of their importance. Combining Wilson's experience in science and industry and curriculum design with Daviss's experience as a journalist specializing in education, Redesigning Education shows how the redesign process can produce a series of integrated changes around which a national educational infrastructure can develop. To spread the most effective ideas from school to school, the authors envision a national educational system modeled on the Agricultural Extension Service. Wilson and Daviss offer evidence to suggest that a basic shift away from a set of century-old assumptions may already be under way. A school-restructuring program devised at Johns Hopkins University, for example, reveals that when detailed authority over curricula is taken away from regulatory bureaucracies and is organized across a network of schools backed by a research and development organization, learning improves markedly. Several studies demonstrate that groups of students working together learn more than students studying alone. Reading Recovery, a unique method of teaching lagging first-graders to read, indicates that research, development, and ongoing teacher education can - contrary to conventional wisdom - play a crucial part in making teaching and learning more efficient and effective, even in the most difficult teaching situations.

Redesigning Education

Education & Teaching

Daviss, Bennett

Schools & Teaching

Henry Holt Co.

This work offers a rationale for reforming the national education infrastructure. Covering past and present reform efforts, the authors analyze both failed and successful programs, and include a chapter on "Reading Recovery" which they believe is crucial for effective teaching and learning.

Teachers College Pr

Van Winkle's Return: Change in American English, 1966-1986

Words, Language & Grammar

Univ of Connecticut

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Here is a reliable and readable guide to effective writing for the America of today. Wilson's guide is unique in presenting a systematic, comprehensive view of language as determined by context. Provides a simple chart of contexts and explains in which contexts a particular usage is appropriate. A to Z format.

Columbia Guide to Standard American English

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