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50 Years of ERIC
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ERIC Number: EJ587673
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1999
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ISSN: ISSN-0031-7217
Books for Summer Reading.
Phi Delta Kappan, v80 n10 p784-88 Jun 1999
"Kappan" editors recommend Michael Ignatieff's biography of Isaiah Berlin and insightful novels by Barbara Kingsolver, Pat Conroy, Wally Lamb, Edwidge Danticat, and Doris Lessing. Neil Postman's "The End of Education" (1995) advocates exploiting diversity to define standards. Ernest House's "Schools for Sale" (1998) explains why free-market policies cannot improve schools. (MLH)
Descriptors: Biographies, Book Reviews, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Fiction, Personal Narratives
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Book/Product Reviews; Journal Articles
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Forgiveness; Postman (Neil)