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The end of the rainbow : how educating for happiness (not money) would transform our schools / Susan Engel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Engel, Susan L., 1959- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Aims and objectives--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Economic aspects--United States.
- Education and state--United States.
- Education and state.
- Education--Philosophy.
- Education--Psychological aspects.
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : The New Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Amid the hype of Race to the Top, online experiments such as Khan Academy, and bestselling books like The Sandbox Investment, we seem to have drawn a line that leads from nursery school along a purely economic route, with money as the final stop. But what price do we all pay for the increasingly singular focus on wage as the outcome of education? Susan Engel, a leading psychologist and educator, argues that this economic framework has had a profound impact not only on the way we think about education but also on what happens inside school buildings.The End of the Rainbow asks what would happen
- Contents:
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; PROLOGUE; ONE The Money Trail; TWO How Money Impoverishes Education; THREE Rich or Poor, It's Good to Have Money; FOUR How Happiness Enriches Schools; FIVE A Blueprint for Well-Being; SIX What We Should Measure; AFTERWORD; NOTES; INDEX
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781620970164
- 1620970163
- OCLC:
- 902415841
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