The Futures Of School Reform
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The Futures Of School Reform
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Author : Jal Mehta
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2012-09-01
The Futures Of School Reform written by Jal Mehta and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-09-01 with Education categories.
The Futures of School Reform represents the culminating work of a three-year discussion among national education leaders convened by the Harvard Graduate School of Education. Based on the recognition that current education reform efforts have reached their limits, the volume maps out a variety of bold visions that push the boundaries of our current thinking. Taken together, these visions identify the leverage points for generating dramatic change and highlight critical trade-offs among different courses of action. The goal of this book is not to present a menu of options. Rather, it is to surface contrasting assumptions, tensions, constraints, and opportunities, so that together we can better understand—and act on—the choices that lie before us.
The Big Lies Of School Reform
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Author : Paul C. Gorski
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-03-14
The Big Lies Of School Reform written by Paul C. Gorski and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-03-14 with Education categories.
The Big Lies of School Reform provides a critical interruption to the ongoing policy conversations taking place around public education in the United States today. By analyzing the discourse employed by politicians, lobbyists, think tanks, and special interest groups, the authors uncover the hidden assumptions that often underlie popular statements about school reform, and demonstrate how misinformation or half-truths have been used to reshape public education in ways that serve the interests of private enterprise. Through a thoughtful series of essays that each identify one “lie“ about popular school reform initiatives, the authors of this collection reveal the concrete impacts of these falsehoods—from directing funding to shaping curricula to defining student achievement. Luminary contributors including Deborah Meier, Jeannie Oakes, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Jim Cummins explain how reform movements affect teachers and administrators, and how widely-accepted mistruths can hinder genuine efforts to keep public education equitable, effective, and above all, truly public. Topics covered include common core standards, tracking, alternative paths to licensure, and the disempowerment of teachers’ unions. Beyond critically examining the popular rhetoric, the contributors offer visions for improving educational access, opportunity, and outcomes for all students and educators, and for protecting public education as a common good.
Race To The Bottom
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Author : Michael V. McGill
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 2015-04-03
Race To The Bottom written by Michael V. McGill and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-03 with Education categories.
How did the country that invented the moderm public school end up embracing policies that weaken it? What alternatives are there to current corporate reform policies? How can we give America's children an education that will truly prepare them and our nation for the challenges of tomorrow? In Race to the Bottom McGill successfully traces the emergence of corporate reform and describes how its tenets run counter to what he believes are the key elements of a high-quality education. McGill draws from a wealth of experience as a school superintendent for over 40 years, including his tenure in Scarsdale during the 2001 district-wide boycott of New York State standardized tests. Showing how strong leaders working with teachers and the community have been able to strengthen schools, the author offers a model of school reform that will prepare students for the 21st Century.
The Future Of Schools
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Author : Brian J. Caldwell
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2002-11
The Future Of Schools written by Brian J. Caldwell and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-11 with Education categories.
This text provides an analysis of the efforts to establish systems of self-managing schools around the world. The core of this book is the description of the transformation of the education system in the state of Victoria, Australia, from dependence in a highly centralized and bureaucratized structure to one that values local decision making and the creation of a system of self-managing schools. The text goes on to show how these and similar programmes in other nations could lay the foundations for similar reform. The authors propose that there must be changes in the role of key stakeholders, including government, community and profession; traditional approaches must be challenged and new ways to fund schools to be canvassed.
The Allure Of Order
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Author : Jal Mehta
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-04
The Allure Of Order written by Jal Mehta and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04 with Education categories.
Explores why reformers from both the left and right have repeatedly placed such high hopes in these reforms and why teachers and schools have been unable to resist these external reformers.
Still Separate And Unequal
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Author : Barry A. Gold
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Still Separate And Unequal written by Barry A. Gold and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
Racially separate schools cannot be equal even if funding levels are the same as wealthy White school districts, according to Barry A. Gold in his provocative new book. By documenting the effects that the New Jersey Supreme Court Abbott V decision had on schools and classrooms, Gold argues that Abbott V, along with NCLB, actually widened the educational gap between middle-class White students and minority students by creating a new but less effective type of urban education. This in-depth examination describes and analyzes the actual behavior of administrators and teachers to understand how and why these educational reforms failed. The book features include: reports on the two most important reforms of urban education in U.S. history - the New Jersey Supreme Court Abbott V ruling and NCLB; rich case studies of 7 years of urban elementary reform; why reform efforts failed to achieve their intended outcomes is explained; and ways to improve future urban education reforms are identified.
Lessons For The Future Of System Wide School Reform Fusion
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Author : Michael Barber
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Lessons For The Future Of System Wide School Reform Fusion written by Michael Barber and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Education categories.
What Next
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Author : Mary Cullinane
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
What Next written by Mary Cullinane and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Education categories.
This book offers a detailed study of the school district of Philadelphia's first three years, revealing what the school of the future can teach us about high school redesign, public-private partnerships, and the use of technology in school reform.--[book cover].
The End Of School Reform
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Author : Maurice R. Berube
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
The End Of School Reform written by Maurice R. Berube and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Education categories.
Education as a major social movement is coming to an end. The End of School Reform derives its theoretical framework from the ideas of Hegel, who perceived an end to history, and Thomas Kuhn, who theorized that history does not follow a linear path but that the scientific landscape changes through large-scale movements called "paradigm shifts". This book examines the partial successes of history's three major educational reform movements (the Progressive Education movement at the beginning of the 20th century, the Equity Reform movement of the 1960's-1970's, and the Excellence Reform movement from 1983 to the present) and contends that such major movements in education will never be seen again. Blending Arthur Danto's "end of art", John Horgan's "end of science", and Francis Fukuyama's "end of history" theses--all of which argue that only minor reforms will occur in the future--and drawing on interviews of education historians and policy professors, the "end of school reform" thesis maintains that educational innovation may still continue, but only on a piecemeal basis.
The Future Of Educational Entrepreneurship
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Author : Frederick M. Hess
language : en
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Release Date : 2008-09-01
The Future Of Educational Entrepreneurship written by Frederick M. Hess and has been published by Harvard Education Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-09-01 with Education categories.
The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American education. In the course of exploring these challenges, the book considers a number of crucial issues and circumstances: existing “barriers to entry” that prohibit or obstruct entrepreneurial efforts; the availability—and frequent lack—of venture capital for fueling entrepreneurial activities; the effort to sponsor and create a sufficiently large population of talented educational entrepreneurs; and questions about research, development, and quality control in the burgeoning entrepreneurial sector. A field that is likely to grow in size and importance in the years to come, educational entrepreneurship receives much-needed attention, analysis, and elucidation in this lively, wide-ranging book.