Education for Upward Mobility (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Petrilli, Michael J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book seeks answers to a fundamental question, perhaps one of the most important questions in America today: How can we help children born into poverty transcend their disadvantages and enter the middle class as adults? And in particular, what role can our schools play? There's little doubt that education and opportunity are tightly joined in the twenty-first-century economy. Almost every week brings a new study demonstrating that highly skilled workers are being rewarded with stronger pay and excellent working conditions, while Americans with few skills are struggling mightily. Expanding educational achievement, then, appears to be a clear route to expanding economic opportunity. Yet much of our public discourse ends there. Of course more young Americans need better education in order to succeed. But what kind of education? Is the goal "college for all"? What do we mean by "college"? Do our young people mostly need a strong foundation in academics? What about so-called "non-cognitive" skills? Should technical education make a comeback? Education for Upward Mobility provides fresh perspectives and concrete ideas for policymakers at every level of government; for leaders and policy analysts in education reform organizations in the states and in Washington; for philanthropists and membership associations; and for local superintendents and school board members. It combines the latest research evidence on relevant topics with in-depth explorations of promising practices on the ground, in real places, achieving real successes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 274
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216271321
• Artikelnr.: 74832582

Autorenporträt

Michael J. Petrilli is an award-winning writer and president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, one of the country's leading education-policy think tanks. He is the author of The Diverse Schools Dilemma: A Parent's Guide to Socioeconomically Mixed Public Schools, and co-editor of Knowledge at the Core: Don Hirsch, Core Knowledge, and the Future of the Common Core.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part I: Transcending Poverty through Education, Work, and Personal
Responsibility
Chapter 1: "Education and the 'Success Sequence,'" Ron Haskins
Chapter 2: "Big Payoff, Low Probability: Postsecondary Education and
Economic Mobility in
America," Andrew Kelly
Chapter 3: "The Certification Revolution," Tamar Jacoby
Chapter 4: "How Apprenticeship Can Spur Upward Mobility in the United
States," Robert Lerman
Part II: Multiple Pathways in High School: Tracking Revisited?
Chapter 5: "Small High Schools of Choice," Peter Meyer
Chapter 6: "College Prep High Schools for the Poor," Joanne Jacobs
Chapter 7: "High Quality Career and Technical Education," Robert Schwartz
and Nancy Hoffman
Part III: The Early Years
Chapter 8: "Starting at Five is Too Late: Early Childhood Education and
Upward Mobility," Elliot Regenstein, Bryce Marable, and Jelene Britten
Chapter 9: "Poverty-Fighting Elementary Schools: Knowledge Acquisition is
Job One," Robert Pondiscio
Chapter 10: "Tracking in Middle School," Tom Loveless
Conclusion