Screwed-up school reform : fixing America's broken promise / Richard G. Shear and Bruce S. Cooper.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shear, Richard G., 1953-

Contributor:

Cooper, Bruce S.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

School improvement programs--United States.

School improvement programs.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (121 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Education, a division of Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., [2012]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Screwed-Up School Reform, Richard G. Shear and Bruce S. Cooper reveal that generations of school reforms have actively worked to cure the symptoms of "broken schools," but not the overarching, fundamental problems that permeate the system. Virtually an entire society has failed to understand the main problem with American education: children are rejecting its practices and conditions. But, the screwed-up education system is fixable, and it can be fixed now. If reformers focus instead on changing education's foundation, then children will instead succeed at school and in their personal lives.

Contents:

Intro

Title

Preface

Screwed-Up by the Wrong Paradigms: The Conflicting Purposes of Public Schools

Screwed-Up, by Not Realizing: What Do Students Want? What Do Students Need?

Screwed-Up Educators: Finding the Path Back to Leadership

Screwed-Up by Government and Governance

Screwed-Up by Clueless Boards of Education and Misguided Parent Groups

School Funding Is Screwed-Up

Ending the Screwed-Up Continuum by Recognizing That the Unachievable Is Achievable

References

About the Authors.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-61048-602-1

OCLC:

872674255