Sandra Stotsky

Changing the Course of Failure (eBook, ePUB)

How Schools and Parents Can Help Low-Achieving Students

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The basic purpose of this book is to help policy makers at all levels of government understand that (1) widespread adolescent underachievement is not susceptible to solution by educational interventions no matter how much money is allocated to public education; and (2) there are unidentified educational and civic costs to focusing on low achievement and to expecting public institutions of education (for K-12 and college) to solve a growing social problem. Many policy makers seem to think that teachers/schools are the primary cause of low achievement. Educational institutions still cannot solve a non-education-caused problem and haven't done so for over fifty years despite all the public and private money that has been allocated. The book concludes with suggested policies for addressing the damage to public education from "gap-closing" standards and with suggested areas for policy making in order to change the current course of failure for many low-achieving students.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 130
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781475839975
• Artikelnr.: 52007943

Autorenporträt

Sandra Stotsky, professor of education emerita, University of Arkansas, was senior associate commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from 1999 to 2003, in charge of developing or revising K-12 standards in all major subjects, teacher and administrator licensing regulations, teacher licensure tests, and professional development criteria. She served on the Common Core Validation Committee from 2009 to 2010 but refused to sign off on these standards on the grounds that they were not (1) research-based, (2) internationally benchmarked, or (3) rigorous.

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