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Wasting minds : why our education system is failing and what we can do about it / Ronald A. Wolk.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Wolk, Ronald A.
- Wolk, Ronald A., author.
- Series:
- Gale eBooks
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Educational change--United States.
- Educational change.
- Public schools--United States.
- Public schools.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 199 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Alexandria, Va. : ASCD, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The founding editor of Education Week and Teacher Magazine explains how the flawed assumptions that have shaped the debate on school reform for decades have hampered progress and proposes alternative assumptions as the basis for a whole new system of schooling.
- Contents:
- The "get tough" policy
- All standards for all students
- If it moves, test it
- Make them take algebra
- Wanted : great teachers
- The quest for the supreme leader
- The dropout epidemic
- Time for what?
- Never enough money
- Needed : a new strategy of new schools
- One student at a time
- Many pathways to success
- Life to text
- It's the work that counts
- Start them early
- A new role for teachers
- A matter of choice
- Schools for digital natives.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 9786613110602
- 9781416613053
- 1416613056
- 9781283110600
- 1283110601
- 9781416613046
- 1416613048
- 9781416613039
- 141661303X
- 9781416613015
- 1416613013
- OCLC:
- 729253215
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