Contradictions of School Reform
Author: Linda McNeil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1135963290
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Author: Linda McNeil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 337
ISBN-13: 1135963290
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author: Linda McNeil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1135963282
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Parents and community activists around the country complain that the education system is failing our children. They point to students' failure to master basic skills, even as standardized testing is widely employed in efforts to improve the educational system. Contradictions of Reform is a provocative look into the reality, for students as well as teachers, of standardized testing. A detailed account of how student improvement and teacher effectiveness are evaluated, Contradictions of Reform argues compellingly that the preparation of students for standardized tests engenders teaching methods that vastly compromise the quality of education.
Author: Linda M. McNeil
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013-10-14
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1135209286
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →McNeil traces the poor quality of high school instruction t the tensions between the social control purposes of schooling and the schools' educational goals.
Author: Samuel Bowles
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 362
ISBN-13: 1608461319
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →"This seminal work . . . establishes a persuasive new paradigm."--Contemporary Sociology No book since Schooling in Capitalist America has taken on the systemic forces hard at work undermining our education system. This classic reprint is an invaluable resource for radical educators. Samuel Bowles is research professor and director of the behavioral sciences program at the Santa Fe Institute, and professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts. Herbert Gintis is an external professor at the Santa Fe Institute and emeritus professor of economics at the University of Massachusetts.
Author: Peter Downs
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 1610488334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by a parent and school board member, who first embraced many of the ideas of the modern school reform movement, Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade. Many of the top strategies of the highly publicized school reform movement already have been tried out in St. Louis with disastrous results. Along with demonstrating the failure of school reform prescriptions to improve education, the experience of St. Louis demonstrates that the ideological premise of the reform movement, that a focus on providing opportunities for private profit-taking will necessarily improve schools, is both wrong and conflicts with the ideals of democracy, accountability, and justice.
Author: David F. Labaree
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2011-03-01
Total Pages: 313
ISBN-13: 0674058860
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children—but all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way “this archetype of dysfunction works so well at what we want it to do even as it evades what we explicitly ask it to do.” Ever since the common school movement of the nineteenth century, mass schooling has been seen as an essential solution to great social problems. Yet as wave after wave of reform movements have shown, schools are extremely difficult to change. Labaree shows how the very organization of the locally controlled, administratively limited school system makes reform difficult. At the same time, he argues, the choices of educational consumers have always overwhelmed top-down efforts at school reform. Individual families seek to use schools for their own purposes—to pursue social opportunity, if they need it, and to preserve social advantage, if they have it. In principle, we want the best for all children. In practice, we want the best for our own. Provocative, unflinching, wry, Someone Has to Fail looks at the way that unintended consequences of consumer choices have created an extraordinarily resilient educational system, perpetually expanding, perpetually unequal, constantly being reformed, and never changing much.
Author: Christopher Tienken
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1475802587
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies, the authors take an in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik. They scrutinize school reform events, proposals, and policies from the last 60 years through the lens of critical social theory and examine the ongoing tensions between the need to keep a vibrant unitary system of public education and the ongoing assault by corporate and elite interests in creating a dual system. Some of events, proposals, and policies critiqued include the Sputnik myth, A Nation At Risk, No Child Left Behind, the lies of the Common Core State Standards Initiative, and other common reform schemes. The authors provide an evidence-based contrarian view of the free-market reform ideas and pierce the veil of the new reform policies to find that they are built not upon empirical evidence, but instead rest solidly on foundations of myth, fear, and lies. Ideas for a new set of reform policies, based on empirical evidence and supportive of a unitary, democratic system of education are presented.
Author: Nancy DaFoe
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2016-06-20
Total Pages: 165
ISBN-13: 1475828330
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Misdirection of Education Policy: Raising Questions about School Reform proposes critically important questions about the wisdom of American public education policy and reform initiatives. Laying out the particulars of three policy strands—creation of STEM curricula/schools, expansion of charter schools/privatizing, and teacher accountability/testing tied to job security— The Misdirection of Education Policy exposes complications, contradictions, and deliberate deceptions in these supposed solutions to very real issues in education. Dafoe theorizes that obstacles facing American education are far more complicated than policy makers suggest or consider. The Misdirection of Education Policy poses the question of whether it is practical to offer an education that is not merely practical in its ends, opening doors far beyond career readiness and filling employers’ job slots. The approach suggested here is designed to offer an arterial that allows students and teachers to do more than simply prepare for STEM careers; it advocates for an education that helps people navigate life by becoming explorers who remain curious and analytical about their world.
Author: Diane Ravitch
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-08-26
Total Pages: 418
ISBN-13: 0345806352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, an incisive, comprehensive look at today’s American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools. In a chapter-by-chapter breakdown she puts forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve our public schools. She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it.
Author: Martha Catherine Highsmith
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 484
ISBN-13:
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