March 1998 | Volume 55 | Number 6

What Is Basic?

Feature Articles

Perspectives / Every Child a Reader

Joan Montgomery Halford

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What's Basic in Beginning Reading? Finding Common Ground

Dorothy S. Strickland

The author describes an alternative in the debate between phonics and holistic approaches—the whole-part-whole framework for reading instruction.

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Balanced Reading Instruction in Practice

Dorothy Fowler

Using free reading as well as sound-letter correspondences, a 1st grade teacher describes how she instructs her young learners.

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Why Reading Is Not a Natural Process

G. Reid Lyon

Nearly four decades of scientific research on how children learn to read supports an emphasis on phonemic awareness and phonics.

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Mr. Smith Goes to First Grade

John A. Smith

An elementary education professor tells of his experience developing a beginning reading program.

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The Many Rewards of a Literacy-Rich Classroom

David K. Dickinson and Lori Lyman DiGisi

What kinds of classroom environments stimulate language and literacy development?

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A Second Chance to Learn to Read

Beverly Showers, Bruce Joyce, Mary Scanlon and Carol Schnaubelt

What can middle schools and high schools do to raise basic competencies for unskilled readers?

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The Basics in Japan: The Three C's

Catherine Lewis and Ineko Tsuchida

Japanese elementary schools are not the academic pressure cookers of media lore, but lively, friendly places devoted to connection, character, and content.

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Detracking for High Student Achievement

Jeannie Oakes and Amy Stuart Wells

Can schools meet higher academic standards while still tracking students into remedial, gifted, and honors levels?

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Voluntary National Tests Would Improve Education

Marshall S. Smith, David L. Stevenson and Christine P. Li

Voluntary national exams in 4th grade reading and 8th grade mathematics would mobilize Americans to increase student achievement, the U.S. Deputy Secretary of Education asserts.

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National Tests Are Unnecessary and Harmful

Monty Neill

Given the inequities and educational dangers associated with the proposed tests, this leading critic argues, Congress should reject the national testing plan.

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The New Basics in School-to-Work

Lynn Olson

School-to-work programs are focusing on new skills young people will need to succeed in the modern workplace.

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To Build a Boat

Tom Bonniwell, Doug Coburn and William S. McCarter

Legacy began as a program for nature and history appreciation, and evolved to include multidisciplinary learning and boat building.

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Why Curriculum Matters in Early Childhood Education

Lawrence J. Schweinhart and David P. Weikart

The High/Scope Perry Preschool longitudinal study of 68 children in poverty has new findings that shed light on what kinds of early childhood programs have the most positive effects.

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Multilingualism Is Basic

Fred Genesse and Nancy Cloud

Demographic, economic, and social realities make linguistic and cross-cultural competence essential skills for students today.

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The Roots of Learning

Mary Ellen Bafumo

The Basic School Network implements Ernest Boyer's thematic concept for the renewal of the earliest years of learning.

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What Is a Good Guiding Question?

Rob Traver

Many cherished curriculum units are intellectually fragmented because teachers and students really do not know what students are supposed to learn.

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Stretching Students' Minds Is Basic Education

Christopher T. Cross and Kathy Applebaum

The Council for Basic Education advocates that students master generative, liberal arts subjects.

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International Section

Media Matters in Australia

Kell Daniels

A media studies program provides students hands-on experience and an up-close look at the ethics of journalism.

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In Israel / Global Ethics in a High School Curriculum

Susan Sappir

An international high school ethics program encourages students to consider hard issues like abortion, organ transplants, and AIDS.

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In Malawi / What's Essential in a New Democracy?

Andrew M. Guest

How educators define what is basic has implications in the developing world.

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Departments

Web Wonders

Carolyn R. Pool

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Research Link / The Basic Problem

Andrew S. Latham

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ASCD Photo Contest

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ASCD in Action

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Portfolio

Joan Montgomery Halford

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