The forces behind school change : defining and understanding the call for improvement / Tim J. Carman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Carman, Tim, 1947-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

United States.

Academic achievement--United States.

Academic achievement.

Physical Description:

viii, 124 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2008.

Summary:

American public schools are facing a crisis of confidence as America penetrates more deeply into the era of No Child Left Behind. The statute requires the standards to rise each year until the year of perfection, 2014, when 100% of the students are required to meet annual yearly progress. There is varied discussion among credible education groups that the year of perfection is unrealistic because not all children come to school equally ready to learn. Universal standards that do not account for differences in student readiness create an uneven measure. That is where this book comes in. The Forces Behind School Change: Defining and Understanding the Call for Improvement is intended to be a resource for both schools of affluence and schools of poverty. This classic dichotomy is at the center of the tension.

Contents:

Preface

The hunt for haloes and heroes

Cohesion consultants : the Martin Luther King learners gone wrong

The seduction of American schools

Elastic expectations

Anxious axioms : reach them to teach them

Education as a moral responsibility

References.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-121).

ISBN:

9781578865840

9781578865857

1578865840

1578865859

OCLC:

77011531