Education's missing ingredient : what parents can tell educators / Victoria M. Young.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Young, Victoria M., 1956-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public schools--United States.

Public schools.

United States.

Education--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education.

Education--Aims and objectives.

Education--Parent participation--United States.

Education--Parent participation.

Physical Description:

xviii, 151 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littleman Education, [2009]

Summary:

The cry has risen to "fix our public schools." Repeatedly, it has fallen on the ears of those without the ability to listen or the understanding necessary to develop the vision for a responsible plan to fix schools. A new opportunity presents itself now. It is time to take on the big and supposedly complicated problems of our education system. Education's Missing Ingredient clearly describes the issues-from the dangers associated with a lack of classroom discipline to the failings of the people to recognize and defend their schools from an overstepping federal government. This book clarifies the answers to our education system's woes and our republic's flickering success. It offers a formula for achieving that ever-elusive goal of equal opportunity in American education. As you begin to understand education's missing ingredient, the simplicity of the solution will amaze you. This path of understanding leads to the type of education system the United States has thus far failed to produce.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Safe and Disciplined Schools 1

Chapter 2 The Three Rs: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic 11

Chapter 3 Where's the Science? 21

Chapter 4 Along Came "No Child Left Behind" 29

Chapter 5 What is the Problem? 41

Chapter 6 We Have the Answers 57

Chapter 7 What's Next? 99

Chapter 8 Democracy and Ecucation 117.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781607093466

1607093464

9781607093473

1607093472

9781607093480

1607093480

OCLC:

369302865