Everette W. Surgenor

Creating Educational Access, Equity, and Opportunity for All (eBook, PDF)

Real Change Requires Redesigning Public Education to Reflect Today's World

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Louis Sullivan, an American architect, was referred to as the "father of modernism" and coined the phrase "form follows function." His phrase provides a key insight into the state of public education in America. The existing form for public education is industrial in nature and is not a match for what should be the function of an education system in an information age society-one that is characterized by technology, globalism, a new definition of work, and rapid, relentless change. This book explains how the mismatch between function and form is creating circumstances that are putting the future of public education at risk, leading to system dysfunction, deregulation, and privatization. Public education needs to be redesigned and reformatted to match the function of the age in which we now live. The current structure and function denies too many students the levels of access, equity, and opportunity that their parents once enjoyed. Achieving that outcome is important to the economic, social, and political wellbeing of America.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216221753
• Artikelnr.: 74626604

Autorenporträt

Everette W. Surgenor practiced as an educator at the school and district level for thirty plus years. He works as a consultant, author, and chairman of a community broadband initiative.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Introduction Chapter One: A Society in Conflict Chapter Two: Three
Generations of Reform Chapter Three: Why Reform Initiatives Have Not Worked
Chapter Four: The Clattering Train Chapter Five: The Wrong Road Chapter
Six: Differing Ages-Differing Contexts Chapter Seven: Responding to Change
in the Face of Adversity Chapter Eight: The Context for Change Chapter
Nine: The Importance of Prior Learning to the Reform/Change Process Chapter
Ten: The Processes of Reform Chapter Eleven: The Organizational Structures
of Reform Chapter Twelve: Identifying Needed Reforms to Practice Chapter
Thirteen: Shaping the Reform Process Chapter Fourteen: Building a Reform
Process That Responds to Continuous and Rapid Change Chapter Fifteen: What
the Future Holds Chapter Sixteen: Engaging This Future