TY - BOOK TI - The academic achievement challenge: what really works in the classroom? SN - 1572305002 U1 - 371.3 PY - 2000/// CY - New York : PB - Guilford Press N1 - 1. Academic Achievement: An American Dilemma 2. Traditional, Teacher-Centered Education versus Progressive, Student-Centered Education3. Twentieth-Century Trends in Educational Policy: The Shift toward Student-Centered Programs 4. Trends in Specific Areas of the Curriculum: Reading, Mathematics, Science, and Social Studies, 1900 to the 1990s5. Research on the Overall Effects of Teacher- and Student-Centered Educational Programs 6. Descriptive Studies of Early Educational Experiments 7. Student-Centered Education: From Theory to Practice 8. Socioeconomic and Learning Difference Effects9. Parents, the Media, and other Non school Educators 10. Where Do We Go from Here? Conclusions and Recommendations ER -