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Beyond standards : the fragmentation of education governance and the promise of curriculum reform / Morgan Polikoff.
Van Pelt Library LB3060.83 .P65 2021
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Polikoff, Morgan, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Education--Standards--United States.
- Education.
- Education--Standards.
- United States.
- Curriculum change--United States.
- Curriculum change.
- Education and state--United States.
- Education and state.
- Physical Description:
- v unnumbered pages, 186 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard Education Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- "Beyond Standards highlights the structural conditions that have undermined the success of the standards movement and challenges us to confront them. The book offers an impassioned argument about the ways that our decentralized educational systems undermine the pursuit of educational equity and excellence. Morgan Polikoff applies a wide array of quantitative and qualitative data to provide a pointed critique of the US educational system. He addresses why standards have failed, whether standards-based reform can be salvaged, and what we can do to improve teaching and learning at scale across America's thirteen thousand school districts. Polikoff argues that no amount of tinkering can fix standards. Rather, we need to tackle the big, structural issues, such as decentralization. The author identifies curriculum reform as a high-leverage strategy for making meaningful progress at scale and emphasizes that states need to play a greater role in evaluating and recommending high-quality curriculum materials. Beyond Standards proposes a new, progressive vision that emphasizes the central role of states in challenging the antiquated, segregating structures that have thwarted educational improvement" --Publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 The Best-Laid Plans
- ch. 2 Thirty Years of Disappointment
- ch. 3 The Case for Curriculum Materials
- ch. 4 Curriculum Control in US Classrooms
- ch. 5 The Lack of Support for Coherence
- ch. 6 A Grand Bargain for America's Teachers
- ch. 7 The Imperative for State Leadership in Instructional Reform
- ch. 8 When Everyone's in Charge, Is Anyone in Charge?.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-164) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1682536114
- 9781682536117
- 1682536122
- 9781682536124
- OCLC:
- 1223015381
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