U.S. national debate topic, 2017-2018. Education reform / [compiled by] H. W. Wilson, a division of EBSCO Information Services.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

H.W. Wilson Company.

Series:

Reference shelf ; v. 89, no. 3.

The reference shelf ; volume 89, number 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational change--United States--History--21st century.

Educational change.

Education--United States--Finance--History--21st century.

Education.

Educational technology--United States--History--21st century.

Educational technology.

Education--Finance.

History.

Finance.

United States.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 201 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Other Title:

US national debate topic, 2017-2018. Education reform

United States national debate topic, 2017-2018. Education reform

National debate topic: 2017-2018. Education reform

Education reform

Place of Publication:

Amenia, New York : Grey House Publishing, 2017.

Summary:

Education Reform is the focus of the National Forensics Leagues 2017-2018 Policy Debate. Articles will discuss different strategies in reforming primary and secondary education in the US. American students do not rank well compared to their peers in other countries. Every administration aims to improve education through a variety of means of increased regulation, funding, standards review and teacher professional development. How has the adoption of the Common Core State Standards changed the national education landscape? Is reform still needed? How do we address the persistent achievement gap between ethnic and racial groups? What is the role of for- profit charter schools in improving failing public schools? Is a skills-based education the best for training a 21st century workforce to compete globally? What is the role of technology in improving teaching or learning? Will online K-12 education address accessibility and fairness in education? This volume will cover all the current issues in the debate on education reform including teacher training and pay, class size, flexible scheduling and standardized testing.

Contents:

1. The state of American education :

Educational states / Micah L. Issitt

Ask better school reform questions / Frederick M. Hess, Paige Willey

A look at the education crisis: tests, standards, and the future of American education / Ulrich Boser, Perpetual Baffour, Steph Vela

Why the charter school debate has moved beyond "better" or "worse" / Joshua Cowen

America's not-so-broken education system: do U.S. schools really need to be disrupted? / Jack Schneider

What the world can learn from the latest PISA test results / The Economist

Where school choice gets an A or B / Mark Silva.

2. Reform 2017 :

Commercializing knowledge: reform in 2017 / Micah L. Issitt

Tax credits, school choice and "neovouchers": what you need to know / Kevin Welner

It's not what Trump's Education Department will do that should worry critics; it's what it won't do / Conor Williams

Dismal voucher results surprise researchers as DeVos era begins / Kevin Carey

Education for sale? School choice and the future of American education / Linda Darling-Hammond

Massachusetts charter cap holds back disadvantaged students / Sarah Cohodes, Susan M. Dynarski

An education leader with one big idea / Dan Currell.

3. In the classroom: skills, knowledge, climate :

The modernization of education / Micah L. Issitt

What we're missing in measuring who's ready for college / Mikhail Zinshteyn

It's time for vocational schools to get some respect / Deborah Halber

Forget welding: the hottest new vocational schools do digital design / Margaret Rhodes

A plan to teach every child computer science / Emily Deruy

Inside Silicon Valley's classrooms of the future / Hannah Kuchler

It takes a suburb: a town struggles to ease student stress / Kyle Spencer.

4. Equity and the achievement gap :

The achievement class / Micah L. Issitt

College calculus: what's the real value of higher education? / John Cassidy

Skipping class / The Economist

Student debt payback far worse than believed / Andrea Fuller

Sheila Bair's one weird trick to make her college less white / Shahien Nasiripour

Bernie Sanders just introduced his free college tuition plan / George Zornick

10 public high school teachers explain why they're worried about Trump's pick for Education Secretary / De Elizabeth

The outsized role of parent contributions in elementary school finance / Emily Workman.

5. Education technology :

Hi-teach: education in the digital age / Micah L. Issitt

Computing in the classroom: from the "teaching machine" to the promise of twenty-first-century learning technology / Sophia Nguyen

Ex-FCC chair blasts efforts to change lifeline, net neutrality, privacy rules / Benjamin Herold

Transforming the EdTech ecosystem: a checklist for investing / Barbara Kurhsan

Online education pioneer boots up a jobs program for the tech industry / Tom Simonite

The new cheating economy / Brad Wolverton.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-198) and index.

ISBN:

9781682174531

1682174530

9781682174500

1682174506

OCLC:

987871937