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Phi Delta Kappan, 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)…
Descriptors: Biographies, Book Reviews, Cultural Pluralism, Educational Change
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Belke, Terry W. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1994
Reviews an autobiographical account of Fred Keller's experiences, documenting how traditional methods of instruction failed him both as a student and as a teacher, and how this failure motivated his quest for alternative methods of instruction culminating in the development of a personalized system of instruction. (KS)
Descriptors: Behaviorism, Biographies, Book Reviews, Higher Education