Saving Schools

Author : Paul E. Peterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674050118

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Saving Schools by Paul E. Peterson Pdf

In this book Peterson interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking to our own era by scrutinizing the often unanticipated consequences of their commitments and ideas. These extraordinary individuals provided the critical ideas and articulated the ideals that motivated many others to search for ways to save the schools from the limitations in which they were embedded: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King, Al Shanker, William Bennett, and James S. Coleman. The drive to centralize was pervasive despite repeatedly expressed reform desire to customize education. Peterson argues that education has become an increasingly labor intensive industry that must reverse direction and become more capital intensive or it will descend in quality. Fortunately, technological change is making it possible radically alter the way in which education services are delivered, providing a new chance to save our schools.

Author : Kenneth S. Goodman
Publisher : RDR Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1571431020

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Saving Our Schools by Kenneth S. Goodman Pdf

"Saving Our Schools exposes the ugly side of President George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" mandate, which has threatened to close more than 6,000 public schools, to the detriment of dedicated teachers and disadvantaged children alike. Revealing how NCLB forces schools with strictly limited resources to teach its children test-taking skills in a desperate bid to pass high-stakes standardized testing, and how the government blacklists successful professors, institutions, and methods that balk the NCLB party line, and much more, Saving Our Schools warns of an immediate threat to the integrity of public education and urges the reader to take action. An eye-opening social commentary, of keen importance in determining the nation's future. -Midwest Book Review

Author : Paul E. Peterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-30
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780674504547

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Saving Schools by Paul E. Peterson Pdf

Saving Schools traces the story of the rise, decline, and potential resurrection of American public schools through the lives and ideas of six mission-driven reformers: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King Jr., Albert Shanker, William Bennett, and James Coleman. Yet schools did not become the efficient, egalitarian, and high-quality educational institutions these reformers envisioned. Indeed, the unintended consequences of their legacies shaped today’s flawed educational system, in which political control of stagnant American schools has shifted away from families and communities to larger, more centralized entities—initially to bigger districts and eventually to control by states, courts, and the federal government. Peterson’s tales help to explain how nation building, progressive education, the civil rights movement, unionization, legalization, special education, bilingual teaching, accountability, vouchers, charters, and homeschooling have, each in a different way, set the stage for a new era in American education. Now, under the impact of rising cost, coupled with the possibilities unleashed by technological innovation, schooling may be transformed through virtual learning. The result could be a personalized, customized system of education in which families have greater choice and control over their children’s education than at any time since our nation was founded.

Author : Robert D. Barr,William H. Parrett
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452294766

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Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools by Robert D. Barr,William H. Parrett Pdf

This field-tested resource outlines effective approaches for improving student learning, proficiency, and achievement at all levels through learning-focused priorities, results-driven practices, and high academic expectations.

Author : John Harvey
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781412061780

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Saving America's Schools by John Harvey Pdf

Out of the hills of Kentucky and Southern Indiana comes a teacher’s voice crying for a completely new approach to public education. A 30-year veteran of public education in 4 states, the author marshals some convincing arguments that the worst enemy of public education is itself and that the school administrations in most school systems are very definitely guilty of self-perpetuating and extending that failure. While hiding behind the façade of competent, caring administrators, all too many superintendents and principals are guilty of placing the almighty dollar first, their own reputations second and students a poor third. The writer places the blame for all of this failure on the heads of school administrations while not excusing the culpability of teachers and parents for believing those who try to convince them that education is available for everyone if the correct “magic” curricula, programs, methods, etc. are followed carefully and proper testing is done correctly. Public education is still only educating those students who come to school properly motivated or who are fortunate enough to find those few teachers who are willing to buck the system and teach the children, not the tests, the curricula or the currently popular (and ever-changing) programs. In answer to the inevitable questions of whether or not the system is worth preserving and what might be done to make a serious attempt at educating every child, the author proposes some interesting and thought provoking strategies. Radically different than those proposed by the Bush administration, these strategies are possible on any level from a single classroom to an entire nation. Saving America’s Schools is a must-read for every serious educator, every parent and every concerned citizen in this country.

Author : Robert D. Barr,William H. Parrett
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2007-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452297910

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Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools by Robert D. Barr,William H. Parrett Pdf

This field-tested resource outlines effective approaches for improving student learning, proficiency, and achievement at all levels through learning-focused priorities, results-driven practices, and high academic expectations.

Author : Ralph E. Robinson,Barbara A. Beswick
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780595128198

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Save Our Schools by Ralph E. Robinson,Barbara A. Beswick Pdf

Work dedicated to educating each child appropriately and identifying at-risk youngsters by Grade Two and salvaging them by Grade Eight.

Author : N. Hornberger
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1349284661

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Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? by N. Hornberger Pdf

This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.

Author : N. Hornberger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780230582491

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Can Schools Save Indigenous Languages? by N. Hornberger Pdf

This volume offers a close look at four cases of indigenous language revitalization: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand, Saami in Scandinavia, Hñähñö in Mexico and Quechua and other indigenous languages in Latin America. Essays by experts from each case are in turn discussed in international perspective by four counterpart experts.

Author : Donald R. McAdams
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807738840

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Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning! by Donald R. McAdams Pdf

Don McAdams, one of a small group of activists elected to the Houston Independent School District Board of Education in 1989, provides a fast moving first-person account of successful reform in the nation’s seventh largest school district. With tact and wisdom, the author shows that school reform is seldom about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Rather, it is mostly about power, status, and money. This is a great story filled with conflict and surprising turns of fate. No one interested in politics, governance, and management of urban school districts can afford to miss Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools . . . and Winning!

Author : Roger C. Schank
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807770900

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Teaching Minds by Roger C. Schank Pdf

From grade school to graduate school, from the poorest public institutions to the most affluent private ones, our educational system is failing students. In his provocative new book, cognitive scientist and bestselling author Roger Schank argues that class size, lack of parental involvement, and other commonly-cited factors have nothing to do with why students are not learning. The culprit is a system of subject-based instruction and the solution is cognitive-based learning. This groundbreaking book defines what it would mean to teach thinking. The time is now for schools to start teaching minds!

Author : Sir Joshua Girling FITCH
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0022038801

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The Savings Bank in the School. An Account of an Economic Experiment in the Communal Schools of Ghent, Etc by Sir Joshua Girling FITCH Pdf

Author : Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher : The Fraser Institute
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Privatization in education
ISBN : 9780889751859

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Can the Market Save Our Schools? by Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) Pdf

Author : Al Guzzi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781479799220

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Save Our Children, Save Our Schools by Al Guzzi Pdf

It has been said that education is merely a reflection of society. Pathway to Success explores the changes in our society that have had a profoundly negative impact on students by creating such "Barriers to Learning" that many students cannot overcome. Our middle schools and high schools have become so subject matter oriented that many students do not feel any connection to their school. Pathway to Success sets forth a plan to assist students to overcome the "Barriers to Learning."The plan is focused on the student, highly individualized and meaningful. It provides the student with a connection to the school like never before. Professional staff will know their students well as they implement their individual education plan. Students’ academic as well as their social needs will be met. Students, who display serious behavioral problems, including signs of mental disorders, will be referred to appropriate professionals for help. The implementation of this plan will promote greater student achievement; fewer discipline problems, and a safer school environment. It will make education not just a reflection of society but a changing force.

Author : Bruce Deitrick Price
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 1681143615

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Saving K-12 by Bruce Deitrick Price Pdf

Public schools are a vast money pit. Education officials seem to prefer inefficiency and mediocrity. We could have better schools at less cost. This book explains how. Bruce Deitrick Price is the country's most prolific and aggressive writer on education. He is good at explaining the root causes, the problems that typically occur, and the ideological obsessions that lead our Education Establishment astray. This book presents 65 articles divided into 10 themes: Reading; Math; Weird Theories and Methods; Common Core; Historical Background; Guilty as Charged; Where Are Our Leaders; and What to Do Now. You can read the articles in any order and dip in wherever you want. This is pleasant reading about grim topics. If we don't save the public schools, we're not going to save very much else.