Addicted to Reform : A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education / John Merrow.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Merrow, John, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Public schools--United States--Evaluation.

Public schools.

Educational change--United States.

Educational change.

Education--Aims and objectives--United States.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxxviii, 277 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : The New Press, 2017.

Summary:

"The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During his four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on topics including America's obsession with standardized testing, the low standards of many teacher-training institutions, how corporate greed created an epidemic of attention deficit disorder, and Michelle Rhee's indifference to cheating in Washington, D.C. Along the way, he taught in high school, a historically black college, and a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on American public education into a "twelve-step" approach to fixing a K-12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: schools that are inappropriate for the twenty-first century. Covering topics from how to turn digital natives into digital citizens to why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one, the twelve smart chapters in this book-including "Measure What Matters," "Ask the Right Question," and "Change Teaching"-form an astute and urgent blueprint for offering a quality education to every American child"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction: Before Entering Treatment

Step One: Own the Problem

Step Two: Calculate the Cost of Reform

Step Three: Don't Pay the Price

Step Four: Ask the Right Question

Step Five: Make Connections

Step Six: Start Early

Step Seven: Expect More

Step Eight: Embrace Technology (Carefully)

Step Nine: Embrace "Outsiders" (Enthusiastically)

Step Ten: Embrace Teachers (Respectfully)

Step Eleven: Measure What Matters

Step Twelve: Choose a New Path

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index of Names

About the Author

Celebrating 25 Years of Independent Publishing

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

OCLC:

1503844481