Testing Wars in the Public Schools

Testing Wars in the Public Schools
Author: William J. Reese
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2013-03-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0674075676

Despite claims that written exams narrowed the curriculum, ruined children’s health, and turned teachers into automatons, once tests took root in American schools their legitimacy was never seriously challenged. William Reese puts today’s battles over standards and benchmarks into perspective by showcasing the history of the pencil-and-paper exam.

Print News and Raise Hell

Print News and Raise Hell
Author: Kenneth Joel Zogry
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2018-02-01
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1469608308

For over 125 years, the Daily Tar Heel has chronicled life at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and at times pushed and prodded the university community on issues of local, state, and national significance. Thousands of students have served on its staff, many of whom have gone on to prominent careers in journalism and other influential fields. Print News and Raise Hell engagingly narrates the story of the newspaper's development and the contributions of many of the people associated with it. Kenneth Joel Zogry shows how the paper has wrestled over the years with challenges to academic freedom, freedom of speech, and freedom of the press, while confronting issues such as the evolution of race, gender, and sexual equality on campus and long-standing concerns about the role of major athletics at an institution of higher learning. The story of the paper, the social media platform of its day, uncovers many dramatic but perhaps forgotten events at UNC since the late nineteenth century, and along with many photographs and cartoons not published for decades, opens a fascinating window into Tar Heel history. Examining how the campus and the paper have dealt with many challenging issues for more than a century, Zogry reveals the ways in which the history of the Daily Tar Heel is deeply intertwined with the past and present of the nation's oldest public university.

Don Daily's Classic Children's Storybook Collection

Don Daily's Classic Children's Storybook Collection
Author: Don Daily
Publisher: Courage Books
Total Pages: 108
Release: 2006
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 9780762427277

An assortment of nursery rhymes, fairy and folk tales, fables, and excerpts from children's classics, including "The Jungle Book" and "The Wind in the Willows," all illustrated by Don Daily.