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Faculty
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Dennis L. Evans
Director
Administrative Services Credential Program
Graduate Advisor
UCI/UCLA and CSU/UCI Joint Ed.D. Programs
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Publications
Evans, D. (2008), Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Teaching and Educational Practice, Third Edition. New York: McGraw Hill.
Overview (McGraw Hill):
Lecturer Dennis Evans' Third Edition of Taking Sides: Teaching and Educational Practice is a debate-style reader, designed to introduce students to controversies in teaching and education. The readings, which represent the arguments of leading educators and social commentators, reflect opposing positions and have been selected for their liveliness and substance and because of their value in a debate framework. For each issue, there is a concise introduction and a postscript summary. The introduction sets the stage for the debate as it is argued in the "yes" and "no" readings. The postscript briefly reviews the opposing opinions and suggests additional readings on the controversial issue under discussion. Topics covered in the Policies and Practice section include: national standards, home schooling, middle school, religious content in public schools, drug testing of students, charter schools, NCLB as educational policy, school discipline/zero tolerance, and large high schools/quality education. Topics covered in the Teaching and Classroom Practices section include: teaching history, sexual education in public schools, single-sex classrooms, grade inflation, purpose of homework, sports participation, computer technology and games in the classroom, accommodations for students with disabilities, and character/moral education programs.
Editor, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial Issues in Secondary Education, McGraw-Hill/Dushkin, Guilford, CT. 2002.
School Uniforms: An "Unfashionable" Dissent (an expanded version of article published in Phi Delta Kappan, October 1996), The Thinking Reader, Editor, James Koobatian, Wadsworth Publishing, 2002.
Merit Pay for Teachers: Unwise, Unworkable, and Unnecessary, American School Board Journal. January, 2001.
Government and Schools, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, May 31, 2000.
SAT in the Crosshairs, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, February 23, 2000.
The Excess of Self-Esteem, Education Week, Vol.XIX, No.8, October 20, 1999.
Evil, Unexplained, Education Week, Vol.XVIII, No. 37, May 26, 1999.
Keeping History Alive,The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, April 16, 1999.
Group-think Replaces Excellence in Schools, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, March 19, 1999.
Assistance for Underqualified Teachers, Education Week, Vol.XVIII, No. 21, February 3, 1999.
Governor Davis calls an End-Around on Proposition 209, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, January 22, 1999.
The President's 'Good Job', Guest Column, Orange County Register, December 27, 1998.
Why Must Beginning Teachers Sink or Swim, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register November 16, 1998.
Education is Getting Itself back on Track, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, October 21, 1998.
The Terrain of Educational Leadership: Ambiguities and Answers, Journal of the California Association of Professors of Educational Administration, Volume 10, Fall 1998.
Another Reason for Law School Drop-out Rates, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, June 15, 1998.
Playing the Number games with UC Admissions, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, April 6, 1998.
Reducing teacher Problems to a 'Know Nothing' Dichotomy, Education Week, Volume XVII, No. 13, November 19, 1997.
What Price Will We Pay For Computers in Every Classroom?, Guest Column, Orange County Register, September 28, 1997.
School Uniforms Won't Cover Up Problems, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, July 10, 1997.
The Professorate's Resistance to Teaching and Service, Education Week, Volume XVI, No. 39, June 25, 1997.
Who's in charge?, Teacher Magazine, March 1997.
Our Icons: Gladiators, Mimes and Minstrels, The Orange Grove, Orange County Register, March 14, 1997.
Unqualified Teachers: A Predictable Finding, Education Week, Vol. XVI, No. 9, October 30, 1996.
School Uniforms: An Unfashionable Dissent, NASSP Bulletin, October 1996.
Raise Standards, Don't Lower Barriers, Commentary, Los Angeles Times, September 24, 1996.
Education for the Workplace: Another Form of Elitism, Education Week, Vol. XV, No. 10, November 8, 1995.
Anyone Can Teach? Stop Political Attacks on Professionalism, Education Week, Vol. XIV, No. 40, July 12, 1995.
The Essence of Improvement, NASSP Bulletin, April 1995.
Book Review: Charting Urban School Reform, Eductional Leadership Vol. 52, No. 6, March 1995.
Some Reflection on doing the Principalship, NASSP Bulletin, Vol. 79, No. 567, January, 1995.
Principals of Discipline in the Secondary School: A System that Works, Issues in teacher Education, Vol. 3, No. 1, 1994.
Book Review: The Game of School, Educational Leadership, Vol. 51, No. 6, March 1994.
Parental Choice of Schools: The Latest Panacea, NASSP Bulletin, Vol. 76, No. 544, May, 1992.
Eliminate School Boards, Teacher Magazine, April, 1992.
Our Colonial Era Approach to Governance, Education Week, Vol. XI, No. 7, November 13, 1991.
The Realities of Un-Tracking a High School, Educational Leadership, Vol. 48, No. 8, May, 1991.
Should 'Choice' Plans Include Private Schools?, Taking Sides - Clashing Views on Controversial Educational Issues 6th Edition, Editor James W. Noll, Dushkin Publishing Group, Guilford, Conn., 1991.
The Mythology of the Marketplace in School Choice, Education Week, Vol. X, No. 7, October 17, 1990. Also published in Education Digest, Vol. 56, No. 7, March, 1991 and Social Problems: A Critical Thinking Approach, 2nd Edition, Editors Baker, P., Anderson, L., Dorn, D., Wadsworth Publishing, 1993.
Will Teacher Empowerment Survive the Bandwagon?, Thrust, Vol. 19, No. 5, February 1990.
The Dangers of Inclusive Choice Plans, Education Week, Vol. IX, No. 21, February 14, 1990.
The Myth of Educational Reform, Thrust, Vol. 17, No. 1, September, 1987.
Leadership Misconstrued: The Myth of Super-Principal, Thrust, Vol. 15, No. 4, January, 1986.
Planning for a Change in a School's Grade Level Configuration,unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Southern California, 1985
A Heretical Approach, Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 66, No. 3, November 1984.
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