Letters to the Next President
Author: Carl Glickman
This 2008 election edition reopens today's critical issues in public education. Once again speaking to the next president, this stellar collection of more than thirty letters speaks to the future of American students and the need for an educated and engaged citizenry. Top education experts, elected officials, business and community leaders, teachers, principals, students, and parents discuss the dangerous shortcomings of current state and federal policies and offer suggestions for what can be done about it.
Table of Contents:
Note on the 2008 Election Edition xiForeword: Where Do We Start to Sweep? Bill Cosby xiii
Acknowledgments xvii
Introduction Carl Glickman 1
Schools for All
Journey to a New Life Rosa Fernandez 9
Helping Me to Raise My Hand Vance Rawles 14
Creating Schools We Can Trust Deborah Meier 18
If We Had the Will to See It Happen Asa G. Hilliard III 27
Getting Our Responsibilities Right Sophie Sa 35
It's Past Time to Fund What We Mandate Jim Jeffords 43
Financing America's Future-How Money Counts William J. Mathis 47
Why We Need Public Education John I. Goodlad 54
Learning for All
Broken Roads and the Great Mother Earth Derrick Attakai Evalena Joey Britta Mitchell Melody Riggs Manuel Thompson Mark Sorensen 63
In Struggle and Hope Lisa Delpit 70
Nine Million Voices Rachel Tompkins 77
How Our High School Makes a Difference George Wood 85
Putting the Arts Back in America'sABC's Reynold Levy 94
When Does {dollar}1.00 Equal {dollar}7.00? Lilian Katz 100
What They Do With the Other 73 Percent of Their Time Louis B. Casagrande 106
Teaching for All
My Students, My School Karen Hale Hankins 113
Teaching Darius to Dream Jacqueline Jordan Irvine 120
Why We Continue to Stay Jane Ross 127
The Gap Between What We Say and What We Do Arturo Pacheco 134
Revolving Doors and Leaky Buckets Richard Ingersoll 141
Standards for All
Choking the Life Out of Classrooms Sylvia Bruni 151
What My Students Need to Know Edward C. Montgomery 158
The No-Win Accountability Game W. James Popham 166
Going Beyond the Slogans and Rhetoric Pedro Noguera 174
"...And Equal Education for All" Jeannie Oakes Martin Lipton 184
A President Who "Gets It" Thomas Sobol 193
Education for All
The Civic Mission of Schools John Glenn Leslie F. Hergert 201
What We All Want for Each of Our Children Theodore R. Sizer 207
Postcards from America Michelle Fine April Burns Maria Elena Torre 211
Learning to Come Alive Maxine Greene 223
Voices Closest to the Ones We Love Ken Rolling Sandra Halladey 228
A Nation of Learners Pam Solo 233
Crafting Legislation Elizabeth DeBray-Pelot 239
Conclusion: Schools That Work for All Children Linda Darling-Hammond 243
Organizations for Parents, Educators, and Activists 259
Organizational Statement on the No Child Left Behind Act 261
About the Editor and Contributors 267
Book review: Meltdown or Cuba Confidential
Total Cold War: Eisenhower's Secret Propaganda Battle at Home and Abroad
Author: Kenneth Osgood
When President Dwight Eisenhower spoke of waging "total cold war," he was proposing nothing less than a global, all-embracing battle for hearts and minds. His wide-ranging propaganda campaign challenged world communism at every turn and left a lasting mark on the American psyche.
Kenneth Osgood now chronicles the secret psychological warfare programs America developed at the height of the Cold War. These programs—which were often indistinguishable from CIA covert operations—went well beyond campaigns to foment unrest behind the Iron Curtain. The effort was global: U.S. propaganda campaigns targeted virtually every country in the free world.
Total Cold War also shows that Eisenhower waged his propaganda war not just abroad, but also at home. U.S. psychological warfare programs blurred the lines between foreign and domestic propaganda with campaigns that both targeted the American people and enlisted them as active participants in global contest for public opinion.
Osgood focuses on major campaigns such as Atoms for Peace, People-to-People, and cultural exchange programs. Drawing on recently declassified documents that record U.S. psychological operations in some three dozen countries, he tells how U.S. propaganda agencies presented everyday life in America to the world: its citizens living full, happy lives in a classless society where economic bounty was shared by all. Osgood further investigates the ways in which superpower disarmament negotiations were used as propaganda maneuvers in the battle for international public opinion. He also reexamines the early years of the space race, focusing especially on the challenge to American propagandists posed by theSoviet launch of Sputnik.
Perhaps most telling, Osgood takes a new look at President Eisenhower's leadership. Believing that psychological warfare was a potent weapon in America's arsenal, Ike appears in these pages not as a disinterested figurehead, as he's often been portrayed, but as an activist president who left a profound mark on national security affairs.
Osgood's distinctive interpretation places Cold War propaganda campaigns in the context of an international arena drastically changed by the communications revolution and the age of mass politics and total war. It provides a new perspective on the conduct of public diplomacy, even as Americans today continue to grapple with the challenges of winning other hearts and minds in another global struggle.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists - Emily Rosenberg
Absorbing and readable.
Pacific Historical Review
Osgood has written probably the best book to date on any aspect of U.S. Cold War propaganda.
American Historical Review
Osgood's penetrating analysis is the work of an astute and accomplished historian.
Journal of Military History
A well-written and beautifully illustrated book that offers valuable insights for those engaged in the global war on terrorism.
Journal of American History
Provocative and disturbing. . . . Deserves a wide audience.
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