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Rebuilding schools for students : let the change begin / Darlene Leiding.
Van Pelt Library LA217.2 .L443 2014
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Leiding, Darlene, 1943- author.
- Series:
- Innovations in education series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- United States.
- Charter schools--United States.
- Charter schools.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 148 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Education, [2014]
- Summary:
- By addressing the current issues that contemporary school systems face-including teacher unions, school reforms, the U.S. Department of Education, technology, NCLB, teachers under scrutiny, teacher tenure, boosting parent engagement, failing schools, and the realities of what works and what doesn't in the charter school realm-Rebuilding Schools for Students: Let the Change Begin serves to promote change by taking risks and achieving results. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Like a phoenix rising from the ashes: our story continues
- Schools in crisis
- School reform: misplaced optimism
- What's up with teacher bashing?
- Parents: our missing link
- The US Department of Education: to be or not to be?
- Teachers' unions: the problem or the answer?
- Technology: will technology advance learning or prove a distraction?
- Charter schools: are some born to fail?
- Finding common ground: voters want to hear more about education
- From failure to success: an offer we can't refuse
- Rebuilding American education by taking risks and achieving results.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781475801507
- 1475801505
- 9781475801514
- 1475801513
- OCLC:
- 851417658
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