Failing Our Future
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Failing Our Future
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Author : Joshua R. Eyler
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2024-08-27
Failing Our Future written by Joshua R. Eyler and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-08-27 with Education categories.
An indictment of the grading system in American schools and colleges—and a blueprint for how we can change it. One of the most urgent and long-standing issues in the US education system is its obsession with grades. In Failing Our Future, Joshua R. Eyler shines a spotlight on how grades inhibit learning, cause problems between parents and children, amplify inequities, and contribute to the youth mental health crisis. Eyler, who runs the Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Mississippi, illustrates how grades interfere with students' intrinsic motivation and perpetuate the idea that school is a place for competition rather than discovery. Grades force students to focus on rewards and distract them from exploring ideas or pursuing interests beyond what they'll be tested on. In fact, grades significantly impede the learning process. They are also significantly affecting children's physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. Rates of anxiety, depression, and suicidal ideation have spiked, and academic stress tied to grades is a leading cause of this escalation. Eyler shares success stories of grading reform efforts that are already under way as an antidote to the harms caused by the practices currently used in educational institutions. Equal parts scathing and hopeful, Failing Our Future aims to improve the lives of students by encouraging them to define success on their own terms. Parents, educators, policymakers, and students will find in these pages a rallying cry for change and a blueprint for how to implement reforms in our homes and classrooms.
Pfi Failing Our Future
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Pfi Failing Our Future written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
How We Sold Our Future
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Author : Jens Beckert
language : en
Publisher: Polity
Release Date : 2025-02-18
How We Sold Our Future written by Jens Beckert and has been published by Polity this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-02-18 with Political Science categories.
For decades we have known about the dangers of global warming. Nevertheless, greenhouse gas emissions continue to increase. How can we explain our failure to take the necessary measures to stop climate change? Why are societies, despite the mounting threat to ourselves and our children, so reluctant to take action? In this important new book, Jens Beckert provides an answer to these questions. Our apparent inability to implement basic measures to combat climate change is due to the nature of power and incentive structures affecting companies, politicians, voters, and consumers. Drawing on social science research, he argues that climate change is an inevitable product of the structures of capitalist modernity which have been developing for the past 500 years. Our institutional and cultural arrangements are operating at the cost of destroying the natural environment and attempts to address global warming are almost inevitably bound to fail. Temperatures will continue to rise and social and political conflicts will intensify. The tragic truth is: we are selling our future for the next quarterly figures, the upcoming election results, and today’s pleasure. Any realistic climate policy needs to focus on preparing societies for the consequences of escalating climate change and aim at strengthening social resilience to cope with the increasingly unstable natural world. Civil society is the only source of pressure that could build the necessary strength and support for climate protection. How We Sold Our Future is a crucial intervention into the most pressing issue of our time.
America S Future In Education
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Author : Brock Griffin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-11-02
America S Future In Education written by Brock Griffin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-02 with categories.
Everyone agrees that our educational system is dramatically underperforming. Why can America go to the moon, but not fix its educational system? Upstream Strategies Inc. and Dr. Douglas Peake seeks to answer this question with clarity and depth. By introducing a new way of thinking about the problem. America's Future in Education will explore why change is so difficult and nearly impossible. How the principles of our founding fathers can overcome this challenge and bring about transformational change. Come along this journey that explores our history and connects it to our future. America is the most innovative nation in the history of the world, and together we can solve this problem.
Inadequate The System Failing Our Teachers And Your Children
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Author : Priya Lakhani
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2020-11-02
Inadequate The System Failing Our Teachers And Your Children written by Priya Lakhani and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-02 with Education categories.
The world of education is in a state of failure. Our teachers are quitting in droves, their natural passion for education stifled. Your children are being let down by a system unfit for our rapidly-changing world, leaving them wholly unprepared to survive the age of AI and automation. Pulling no punches, education technologist and entrepreneur Priya Lakhani OBE outlines how badly we have failed, and who is to blame. With a foreword from Robert Halfon MP, Chair of the Education Select Committee, Priya charts a course for a brighter future. From feeble government reforms to growing mental health crises, Priya leaves no stone unturned in exposing the Inadequate state of education.
Failing Our Future
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Author : James S. Lanich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-10-01
Failing Our Future written by James S. Lanich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-01 with categories.
Still Failing At Fairness
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Author : David Sadker
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2009-04-28
Still Failing At Fairness written by David Sadker and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-04-28 with Education categories.
Despite decades of effort to create fair classrooms and schools, gender bias is alive and well, and in some ways growing. School practices continue to send boys and girls down different life paths, too often treating them not as different genders but as different species. Teachers and parents often miss the subtle signs of sexism in classrooms. Through firsthand observations and up-to-the-minute research, Still Failing at Fairness brings the gender issue into focus. The authors provide an in-depth account of how girls' and boys' educations are compromised from elementary school through college, and offer practical advice for teachers and parents who want to make a positive difference. The authors examine today's pressing issues -- the lack of enforcement for Title IX, the impact of the backlash against gender equity, the much-hyped "boys' crisis," hardwired brain differences, and the recent growth of singlesex public schools. This book documents how teaching, current testing practices, and subtle cultural attitudes continue to short-circuit both girls and boys of every race, social class, and ethnicity. Hard-hitting and remarkably informative, Still Failing at Fairness is "a fascinating look into America's classrooms" (National Association of School Psychologists).
Suffer The Child
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Author : Lidia Wasowicz Pringle
language : en
Publisher: Capital Books (VA)
Release Date : 2006
Suffer The Child written by Lidia Wasowicz Pringle and has been published by Capital Books (VA) this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Children categories.
A compelling in-depth examination by a veteran investigative reporter of the frightening state of our children's health and the health care system that is failing them.
Future Babble
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Author : Dan Gardner
language : en
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Release Date : 2010-10-12
Future Babble written by Dan Gardner and has been published by McClelland & Stewart this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10-12 with Social Science categories.
In 2008, as the price of oil surged above $140 a barrel, experts said it would soon hit $200; a few months later it plunged to $30. In 1967, they said the USSR would have one of the fastest-growing economies in the year 2000; in 2000, the USSR did not exist. In 1911, it was pronounced that there would be no more wars in Europe; we all know how that turned out. Face it, experts are about as accurate as dart-throwing monkeys. And yet every day we ask them to predict the future — everything from the weather to the likelihood of a catastrophic terrorist attack. Future Babble is the first book to examine this phenomenon, showing why our brains yearn for certainty about the future, why we are attracted to those who predict it confidently, and why it’s so easy for us to ignore the trail of outrageously wrong forecasts. In this fast-paced, example-packed, sometimes darkly hilarious book, journalist Dan Gardner shows how seminal research by UC Berkeley professor Philip Tetlock proved that pundits who are more famous are less accurate — and the average expert is no more accurate than a flipped coin. Gardner also draws on current research in cognitive psychology, political science, and behavioral economics to discover something quite reassuring: The future is always uncertain, but the end is not always near.
The Ugly Truth
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Author : Helen Crudup
language : en
Publisher: iUniverse
Release Date : 2009-12-29
The Ugly Truth written by Helen Crudup and has been published by iUniverse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-12-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Thousands of kids around the world will either receive failing grades or drop out of school. Dont become a statistic learn about the ugly truth and how it can affect your life. Read this book and help the children and ourselves become better students, teachers, parents and people for our future.