Jay P. Greene

Education Myths (eBook, ePUB)

What Special Interest Groups Want You to Believe About Our Schools--And Why It Isn't So

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

How can we fix America's floundering public schools? Conventional wisdom says that schools and teachers need a lot more money, that poor and immigrant children can't do as well as most American kids, that high-stakes tests just produce teaching to the test, and that vouchers do little to help students while undermining our democracy. But what if the conventional wisdom is wrong? Jay Greene provocatively shows that much of what people believe about education policy is little more than a series of myths advanced by the special interest groups dominating public education.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. August 2005
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780742577879
• Artikelnr.: 38226333

Autorenporträt

Jay P. Greene is Distinguished Professor and Chair of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. His current areas of research interest include school choice, culturally enriching field trips, and the effect of schools on non-cognitive and civic values.