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  1. [+]
    The Educator's Bookshelf (7 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Will it Grow in a Classroom?, by Beatrice Gross and Ronald Gross
    1. Will it Grow in a Classroom? by Beatrice Gross and Ronald Gross
    2. Education and the Taming of Power by Sidney Hook
    3. The Uses of a Liberal Education by Brand Blanshard
    4. Souls in Extremis by Burton Blatt
    5. The New Assault on Equality by Alan Gartner, Colin Greer, and Frank Riessman
    6. Patterns for Lifelong Learning by Theodore M. Hesburgh, Paul A. Miller, and Clifton R. Wharton, Jr., ...
    7. Public School of Choice by Mario D. Fantini
    The Saturday Review, July 27, 1974, pp. 52-53
  2. [+]
    The Educator's Bookshelf (6 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Your Child's Intellect, by Terrel H. Bell and Arden R. Thorum
    1. Your Child's Intellect by Terrel H. Bell and Arden R. Thorum
    2. The Twelve-Year Sentence by William F. Rickenbacker
    3. The Micro-Society School by George H. Richmond
    4. Quality Education for All Americans by William F. Brazziel
    5. American Education and Vocationalism by Marvin Lazerson and W. Norton Grubb
    6. Half the House by Herbert Kohl
    The Saturday Review, September 21, 1974, p. 50
  3. [+]
    The Educator's Bookshelf (4 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Inside Soviet Schools, by Susan Jacoby
    1. Inside Soviet Schools by Susan Jacoby
    2. The Early Childhood Educator at Work by Millie C. Almy
    3. Unlearning the Lie: Sexism in School by Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    4. Workyards by Nancy Rudolph
    The Saturday Review, March 8, 1975, p. 47
  4. [+]
    The Educator's Bookshelf (6 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Children's Ways of Knowing, by Nathan Isaacs
    1. Children's Ways of Knowing by Nathan Isaacs
    2. The Case Against College by Caroline Bird and Helene Mandelbaum
    3. Children Are the Revolution by Marvin Leiner
    4. The Balancing Act by George C. Roche III, Alan Reynolds, and Ernest Van Den Haag, ...
    5. Career Education: A Proposal for Reform by Sidney P. Marland, Jr.
    6. Scaling the Ivy Wall by Howard Greene and Robert Minton
    The Saturday Review, May 31, 1975, p. 52
  5. [+]
    New Books (7 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Teach-Ins: U.S.A., by Louis Menashe and Ronald Radosh
    1. Teach-Ins: U.S.A. by Louis Menashe and Ronald Radosh
    2. Power, Presidents, and Professors by Nicholas J. Demerath, Richard W. Stephens, and R. Robb Taylor, ...
    3. Universities and the Life of the Mind by K.G. Saiyidain
    4. The English Public Schools by Ian Weinberg
    5. George Ticknor and the Boston Brahmins by David B. Tyack
    6. Academic Freedom and the Catholic University by Edward Manier and John W.Houck
    7. A Short Walk on the Campus by Jonathan Aitken and Michael Beloff
    The Saturday Review, August 19, 1967, p. 66
  6. [+]
    New Books (8 Reviews)
    John Calam
    A Perfect Education, by Kenneth E. Eble
    1. A Perfect Education by Kenneth E. Eble
    2. Culture, System, and Behavior by Francis A.J. Ianni
    3. Education and Social Crisis by Everett T. Keach, Jr. and Robert Lester Fulton, ...
    4. A Philosophy for Adult Education by Paul E. Bergevin
    5. The Implications of Continuous Learning by J. Robbins Kidd
    6. Education for Tragedy by Kenneth D. Benne
    7. The Knowledge Most Worth Having by Wayne C. Booth
    8. TV as Art: Some Essays in Criticism by Patrick D. Hazard
    The Saturday Review, September 16, 1967, pp. 94-100
  7. [+]
    New Books (12 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Max Rafferty on Education, by Max L. Rafferty
    1. Max Rafferty on Education by Max L. Rafferty
    2. The Revolution of the Dons by Sheldon Rothblatt
    3. Early Childhood Education Rediscovered: Readings by Joe L. Frost
    4. Numbers and Such by A.N. Feldzamen
    5. The Nursery Years by Susan S. Isaacs
    6. Museums and Education by Eric Larrabee
    7. Campus Values by Charles W. Havice
    8. Problems and Issues in Contemporary Education
    9. Your Non-Learning Child by Bert Kruger Smith
    10. Crises in California Higher Education by Arthur G. Coons
    11. Our Children's Burden by Raymond W. Mack
    12. Public Money and Parochial Education by Vincent P. Lannie
    The Saturday Review, November 16, 1968, pp. 112-115
  8. [+]
    New Books (7 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Developing Nongraded Schools, by Sidney P. Rollins
    1. Developing Nongraded Schools by Sidney P. Rollins
    2. Drugs on the College Campus by Helen H. Nowlis
    3. The College Drug Scene by James T. Carey
    4. The New Idea in Education by Jean A. Battle and Robert L. Shannon
    5. Students and Politics in Developing Nations by Donald K. Emmerson
    6. Technology and Innovation in Education
    7. Danger in Washington by Carl F. Hansen
    The Saturday Review, April 19, 1969, pp. 72-80
  9. [+]
    New Books (7 Reviews)
    John Calam
    The Human Nature of a University, by Robert F. Goheen
    1. The Human Nature of a University by Robert F. Goheen
    2. Toward a Phenomenology of Education by J. Gordon Chamberlin
    3. American Education in Foreign Perspective by Stewart E. Fraser
    4. Scientific Investigations in Comparative Education by Max A. Eckstein and Harold J. Noah
    5. Education as a Social Problem by Rudolf Steiner
    6. The Education Industry by W. Kenneth Richmond
    7. Soviet Preschool Education, Vol. I by Henry Chauncey
    The Saturday Review, December 20, 1969, pp. 66-69
  10. [+]
    New Books (12 Reviews)
    John Calam
    The Training of Good Physicians, by H. Jack Geiger, Fremont J. Lyden, and Osler L. Pete...
    1. The Training of Good Physicians by H. Jack Geiger, Fremont J. Lyden, and Osler L. Peterson, ...
    2. Higher Education in Tomorrow's World by Algo D. Henderson
    3. The New University by John Lawlor
    4. The Schoolhouse in the City by Alvin Toffler
    5. Big City Dropouts and Illiterates by Robert A. Dentler and Mary Ellen Warshauer
    6. The Development of Political Attitudes in Children by Robert D. Hess and Judith V. Torney
    7. Guiding Your Child Toward College by Charles A. Bucher, Hellmuth W. Joel, and Gertrude A. Joel, ...
    8. Up Against the Ivory Wall by Jerry L. Avorn and Robert Friedman
    9. Education and the Barricades by Charles Frankel
    10. Religion and Education by Theodore R. Sizer
    11. The Sane Positivist by Geraldine M. Joncich
    12. Effects of Sociodramatic Play on Disadvantaged Pre-School Children by Sara Smilansky
    The Saturday Review, February 15, 1969, pp. 100-112
  11. [+]
    New Books (9 Reviews)
    John Calam
    The Progressive Educator and the Depression, by C.A. Bowers
    1. The Progressive Educator and the Depression by C.A. Bowers
    2. Education and the French Revolution by H.C. Barnard
    3. Contemporary College Students and the Curriculum by Lewis B. Mayhew
    4. Catholic Education Faces Its Future by Neil G. McCluskey
    5. Decision Making and Administration in Higher Education by John David Millett
    6. The Year of the Young Rebels by Stephen Spender
    7. Experiment at Berkeley by Joseph Tussman
    8. Whispers from a Continent by Wilfred G. Cartey
    9. Public Controls for Nonpublic Schools by Donald A. Erickson
    The Saturday Review, June 21, 1969, p. 80
  12. [+]
    New Books (16 Reviews)
    John Calam
    The Children of the Dream, by Bruno Bettelheim
    1. The Children of the Dream by Bruno Bettelheim
    2. Due to Lack of Interest, Tomorrow Has Been Canceled by Irene Kampen
    3. The Taming: A Teacher Speaks by Deborah James
    4. Chalk Dust on My Shoulder by Charles G. Rousculp
    5. Religion, the State, and the Schools by John M. Swomley, Jr.
    6. Trends and Issues in Catholic Education by Russell Shaw and Richard J. Hurley
    7. The Teaching-Learning Paradox by Robert Dubin and Thomas C. Taveggia
    8. The French Student Revolt: The Leaders Speak by Herve Bourges
    9. Making Urban Schools Work by Mario D. Fantini and Gerald Weinstein
    10. Essays on World Education by George Z.F. Bereday
    11. Education and the Business Dollar by Kenneth G. Patrick and Richard Eells
    12. Bureaucracy in Education by James G. Anderson
    13. Education and Urban Renaissance by Roald F. Campbell, Lucy Ann Marx, and Raphael O. Nystrand, ...
    14. Your Child and the First Year of School by Bernard Ryan, Jr.
    15. The Psychology of College Success by Henry Clay Lindgren
    16. The Individual and the System by John Minter
    The Saturday Review, May 17, 1969, pp. 91-99
  13. [+]
    New Books (8 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Research for Tomorrow's Schools, by Lee J. Cronbach and Patrick Suppes
    1. Research for Tomorrow's Schools by Lee J. Cronbach and Patrick Suppes
    2. Teachers Talk by Estelle Fuchs
    3. Up the Ivy Ladder by Norman Runnion
    4. The Brass Factories by J. Arthur Heise
    5. Employment and Educational Services in the Mobilization for Youth Experience by Harold H. Weisman
    6. Approaches to Education for Character by Clarence H. Faust and Jessica Feingold
    7. Student Power by Alexander Cockburn and Robin Blackburn
    8. The Campus in the Modern World by John D. Margolis
    The Saturday Review, November 15, 1969, pp. 95-108
  14. [+]
    New Books (7 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Utopias and Education, by Howard Ozmon
    1. Utopias and Education by Howard Ozmon
    2. Teaching Black Children to Read by Joan C. Baratz and Roger W. Shuy
    3. Homer Lane and the Little Commonwealth by Elsie T. Bazeley
    4. Talks to Parents and Teachers by Homer T. Lane
    5. Problems of School Men in Depressed Urban Centers by Arliss L. Roaden
    6. A Brief History of Canadian Education by F. Henry Johnson
    7. Reforming American Education by Alvin C. Eurich
    The Saturday Review, October 18, 1969, p. 92
  15. [+]
    New Books (9 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Education and Jobs, by Ivar Berg
    1. Education and Jobs by Ivar Berg
    2. Talking to Children About Sex by Edna Lehman
    3. Social Foundations of Urban Education by Harry L. Miller and Roger R. Woock
    4. The Battle for Morningside Heights by Roger Kahn
    5. A Diabolical Dictionary of Education by Richard Armour
    6. Schools Can Change by Cynthia Parsons
    7. Education in the History of Western Civilization by Frederick M. Binder
    8. Value Change and Power Conflict in Higher Education by W. John Minter and Patricia O. Snyder
    9. The Acquisition of Syntax in Children from 5 to 10 by Carol Chomsky
    The Saturday Review, April 18, 1970, p. 76
  16. [+]
    New Books (11 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Guide to Canadian Universities, by Joyce Slayton Mitchell
    1. Guide to Canadian Universities by Joyce Slayton Mitchell
    2. The Harvard Strike by Lawrence E. Eichel, Kenneth W. Jost, and Robert D. Luskin, ...
    3. The Plateglass Universities by Michael Beloff
    4. What We Owe Children by Caleb Gattegno
    5. Piaget for Teachers by Hans G. Furth
    6. Teaching with Feeling by Herbert M. Greenberg
    7. The Climactic Decades: Mandate to Education by Theodore Brameld
    8. Promise or Peril by William R. Corson
    9. The Limits of Protest by Peter Buckman
    10. Push Comes to Shove by Steven Kelman
    11. Piety in the Public School by Robert S. Michaelsen
    The Saturday Review, August 15, 1970, pp. 57-65
  17. [+]
    New Books (9 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Whitetown, U.S.A., by Peter Binzen
    1. Whitetown, U.S.A. by Peter Binzen
    2. Today's Academic Condition by Samuel B. Gould
    3. The Campus Scene, 1900-1970 by Calvin B.T. Lee
    4. Conflict and Dissent in the High Schools by Kenneth L. Fish
    5. The Catholic University: A Modern Approach by Neil G. McCluskey
    6. Children at School: Primary Education in Britain Today by Geoffrey Howson
    7. Teaching in the British Primary School by Vincent R. Rogers
    8. Oh! Sex Education! by Mary Breasted
    9. The Distinctive College by Burton R. Clark
    The Saturday Review, December 19, 1970, p. 61
  18. [+]
    New Books (11 Reviews)
    John Calam
    The Right to Create, by Judith Groch
    1. The Right to Create by Judith Groch
    2. The Changing College Classroom by Philip Runkel, Roger Harrison, and Margaret Runkel, ...
    3. Agony and Promise by G. Kerry Smith
    4. Students in Revolt by Seymour Martin Lipset and Philip G. Altbach
    5. The Educational Enclave by Norman Matlin
    6. Teachers for the Disadvantaged by James Champion Stone
    7. The University and Revolution by Gary R. Weaver and James H. Weaver
    8. Realism in Education by William Oliver Martin
    9. The Human Encounter: Readings in Education by Sheldon Stoff and Herbert Schwartzberg
    10. Conformity: Standards and Change in Higher Education by Warren Bryan Martin
    11. Dynamics of Academic Reform by J.B. Lon Hefferlin
    The Saturday Review, February 21, 1970, pp. 75-76
  19. [+]
    New Books (8 Reviews)
    John Calam
    The Student Revolution: A Global Confrontation, by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
    1. The Student Revolution: A Global Confrontation by Joseph A. Califano, Jr.
    2. Campus Apocalypse by Donald L. Rogan
    3. Is the Library Burning? by Roger Rapoport and Laurence J. Kirshbaum
    4. The College Scene by James A. Foley and Robert K. Foley
    5. The Ideal of the University by Robert Paul Wolff
    6. Black Studies in the University by Armstead L. Robinson, Craig C. Foster, and Donald H. Ogilvie, ...
    7. The Cloistered Elite by John Wakeford
    8. A Parent's Guide to Children's Reading by Nancy Larrick
    The Saturday Review, January 24, 1970, p. 68
  20. [+]
    New Books (10 Reviews)
    John Calam
    High School 1980, by Alvin C. Eurich
    1. High School 1980 by Alvin C. Eurich
    2. The Classrooms of Miss Ellen Frankfort by Ellen Frankfort
    3. The Management of Education by Shelley Umans
    4. Students and Decision Making by Robert S. Morison
    5. The School and the Democratic Environment
    6. Issues in American Education by Arthur M. Kroll
    7. The Pursuit of Loneliness by Philip E. Slater
    8. Summerhill: For and Against by Harold H. Hart
    9. Academic Degree Structures: Innovative Approaches by Stephen H. Spurr
    10. The Child's Conception of Movement and Speed by Jean Piaget
    The Saturday Review, July 18, 1970, pp. 57-65
  21. [+]
    New Books (4 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Student Power and the Canadian Campus, by Tim Reid and Julyan Reid
    1. Student Power and the Canadian Campus by Tim Reid and Julyan Reid
    2. Point of View: Talks on Education by Edward H. Levi
    3. The Student and the University by Elvin Abeles
    4. What Happened to Teacher? by Myron Brenton
    The Saturday Review, March 21, 1970, p. 75
  22. [+]
    New Books (10 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Cobweb Attitudes, by Colin Greer
    1. Cobweb Attitudes by Colin Greer
    2. The Confidence Crisis by Paul L. Dressel, F. Craig Johnson, and Philip M. Marcus, ...
    3. Issues of the Seventies: The Future of Higher Education by Fred F. Harcleroad
    4. Twenty-Five Years, 1945-1970 by G. Kerry Smith
    5. Values for Tomorrow's Children by John H. Westerhoff III
    6. The Upper Division College by Robert A. Altman
    7. The Cluster College by Jerry G. Gaff
    8. The Language of Ordinary Experience by David E. Denton
    9. Student Unrest: Threat or Promise? by Richard L. Hart and J. Galen Saylor
    10. The School Fix, NYC, USA by Miriam Wasserman
    The Saturday Review, September 19, 1970, pp. 83-100
  23. [+]
    New Books (9 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Innovation in Primary Education, by George W. Bassett
    1. Innovation in Primary Education by George W. Bassett
    2. Community Control of Schools by Henry M. Levin
    3. Black Images by Wilfred G. Cartey
    4. Of Singular Benefit by Harold A. Buetow
    5. Scene of the Battle by Joan I. Roberts
    6. Parent Effectiveness Training by Thomas Gordon
    7. The Rise of the Student Estate in Britain by Eric Ashby and Mary Anderson
    8. Above High School by M.M. Chambers
    9. Perspectives on Campus Tensions by David C. Nichols
    The Saturday Review, April 17, 1971, p. 77
  24. [+]
    New Books (9 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Can't You Hear Me Talking to You?, by Caroline Mirthes
    1. Can't You Hear Me Talking to You? by Caroline Mirthes
    2. Looking Behind the Classroom Door by John I. Goodlad and M. Frances Klein
    3. Toward Humanistic Education by Gerald Weinstein and Mario D. Fantini
    4. The University Crisis Reader, Vol. I by Immanuel Wallerstein and Paul Starr
    5. The University Crisis Reader, Vol. II by Immanuel Wallerstein and Paul Starr
    6. Sex Education on Film by Laura J. Singer and Judith Buskin
    7. Nobody Can Teach Anyone Anything by Wilfred R. Wees
    8. If Teachers Were Free by Richard Renfield
    9. Suzuki Education in Action by Clifford A. Cook
    The Saturday Review, August 21, 1971, pp. 52-61
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    New Books (6 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Textbooks and the American Indian, by Jeannette Henry
    1. Textbooks and the American Indian by Jeannette Henry
    2. How a People Die by Alan Fry
    3. Moral Education: Five Lectures by Nancy F. Sizer and Theodore R. Sizer
    4. Play and Play Grounds by Jeannette Galambos Stone and Nancy Rudolph
    5. The Hidden Curriculum by Benson R. Snyder
    6. The Professional as Educator by Arthur W. Foshay
    The Saturday Review, February 20, 1971, pp. 75-83
  26. [+]
    New Books (9 Reviews)
    John Calam
    Walk, Run, or Retreat: The Modern School Administrator, by Neil V. Sullivan, Thomas D. ...
    1. Walk, Run, or Retreat: The Modern School Administrator by Neil V. Sullivan, Thomas D. Wogaman, and Ruth Barshay, ...
    2. Every Kid a Winner by Leon M. Lessinger
    3. The Courts and Higher Education by John S. Brubacher
    4. Urban Education Task Force Report
    5. Conflicts in Urban Education by Sheldon Marcus and Harry N. Rivlin
    6. Pickets, Parents, and Power by Barbara Carter
    7. Kent State by James A. Michener
    8. Soviet Preschool Education, Vol. II by Henry Chauncey
    9. Man, Education, and Manpower by Grant Venn
    The Saturday Review, September 18, 1971, pp. 80-87
  27. Parsons and Pedagogues (1971)
    John Calam
    1 Review
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    Schools Make News (Review)
    John Calam
    American Education: Its Men, Institutions and Ideas, by Lawrence A. Cremin
    1. American Education: Its Men, Institutions and Ideas by Lawrence A. Cremin
    The Saturday Review, June 20, 1970, pp. 90-101
  29. The Schools Aren't What They Used to Be---and Probably Never Were
    John Calam and John Patenaude
    The Saturday Review, April 29, 1972, pp. 52-53
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