Sandra Stotsky

Changing the Course of Failure

How Schools and Parents Can Help Low-Achieving Students

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is about this country's efforts to educate and raise the achievement level of large numbers of low-achieving students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 350g
• ISBN-13: 9781475839951
• ISBN-10: 1475839952
• Artikelnr.: 51144892

Autorenporträt

Sandra Stotsky is professor of education emerita, University of Arkansas, and was Senior Associate Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from 1999-2003. She has authored several books and many reports and articles on the school curriculum, K-12 standards, teacher training, and teacher licensing tests.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Acknowledgements Chapter 1. The Current Education Problem Chapter
2. The Political Context for the Education of Low-Achieving Students
Chapter 3. Highlights of Early U.S. Educational History Chapter 4.
Fragmentation of the English Curriculum in the 20th Century Chapter 5.
Evolving Explanations of Low Achievement; How Well Education Programs and
Strategies Have Addressed It Chapter 6. Who Should Teach Low-Achieving
Students-and All the Others? Chapter 7. Testing Concerns Chapter 8. What
Might Desperate Policy Makers Do? Chapter 9. What Could State Legislatures
with a Spine Do? Chapter 10. Policies to Reduce Adolescent
Under-Achievement or High School Drop-Outs About the Author