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\doc\web\99\12\onesize.txt One Size Fits Few : The Folly of
Educational Standards by Susan Ohanian Our Price: $16.00 Paperback
(May 1999) Heinemann (Tx); ISBN: 0325001588 Availability: This title
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Other books purchased by same customers:
Reading Lessons : The Debate over Literacy; Gerald Coles
A Time to Learn : Creating Community in America's High Schools; George H. Wood
What to Look For in a Classroom : And Other Essays; Alfie Kohn
The Students Are Watching : Schools and the Moral Contract; Theodore R. Sizer, et al 


I just got a review copy of this book, and typed this up for the
Amazon.com page I stumbled on while going through education news.


Arthur Hu review of One Size Fits Few for Amazon.com


Aug 17, 1990


I haven't read it cover to cover yet, but so far it's great and makes
tremendous sense. The new tests like Washingon's WASL, Maryland's
MSPAP expect kids demonstrate absurdly advanced skills with
absolutely no direct instruction on how to solve these problem, the
Maryland 9th grade social studies is absolutely insane what they
expect to pack the entire world history into one year at a graduate
college level.



The whole idea of "high standards for all" is the classic "if it's
too good to be true, it probably is". How can one standard be good
enough for every job from mopping the floors up to designing
ultrasound machine software?


In a different way, this book stands up for truly traditional
education, which never held up _all_ student to one high standard.
Thank you for writing this, this is the first volley that will
eventually spell doom for the misguided standards based reform
movement.


Arthur Hu Candidate Superintendent of Instruction WA 2000
http://www.leconsulting.com/arthurhu/index/edreform.htm


More thoughts - 


This book might fall on the size of the "fuzzies", with Alfie Kohn
being a big one, Theodore Sizer is also a fuzzy outcomes guy. She is
openly critical of Mathematically Correct, I side with her that not
every child should be expected to master the most difficult math
offered at every grade level. She also thinks it is silly to strictly
ban calculators from elementary school, I don't think they're
neccesarily bad as long as you know how to do it by hand, and you
understand how to use the calculator as a tool, not just push buttons.