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Failure up close : what happens, why it happens, and what we can learn from it / edited by Jay P. Greene and Michael Q. McShane.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--United States--Evaluation.
- School improvement programs.
- School failure.
- United States.
- Evaluation.
- School failure--United States--Prevention.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 195 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Introduction / Jay P. Greene and Michael Q. McShane
- The limits of expertise / Frederick M. Hess and Paige Willey
- The "failure" of new technologies to transform tranditional teaching in the past century / Larry Cuban
- Teacher education : failed reform and a missed opportunity / Daniel Willingham
- Asking too much of accountability : the predictable failure of No Child Left Behind / Martin West
- School improvement grants : failures in design and implementation / Ashley Jochim
- Test-based teacher evaluation / Matthew Di Carlo
- The failure of private school vouchers and tax-credit scholarships / Anna J. Egalite
- No excuses charter schools : the good, the bad, anda the over-prescribed? / Matthew Ladner
- Too big to fail : "big bet" philanthropy and constructive failure at the Gates Foundation / Megan E. Tompkins-Stange
- Conclusion / Jay P. Greene and Michael Q. McShane.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 22, 2018).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Hosmer Penniman Book Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Failure up close.
- ISBN:
- 9781475840575
- 1475840578
- Publisher Number:
- 99984007203
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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