Bruce S. Cooper, Richard G. Shear

Screwed-Up School Reform (eBook, ePUB)

Fixing America's Broken Promise

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The unspoken American promise is that each generation will lead a better, more successful life than the previous one. In earlier times, it was an education that provided the next generations a better life. For today's children, though, decades of failed school reform have left a generation wondering if this promise has been broken. Despite policies, programs, and resources, American education does not live up to its expectations. In Screwed-Up School Reform, Richard G. Shear and Bruce S. Cooper reveal that generations of school reforms have actively worked to cure the symptoms of "broken schools," but not the overarching, fundamental problems that permeate the system. Virtually an entire society has failed to understand the main problem with American education: children are rejecting its practices and conditions. But, the screwed-up education system is fixable, and it can be fixed now. If reformers focus instead on changing education's foundation, then children will instead succeed at school and in their personal lives.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 168
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781610486026
• Artikelnr.: 40379169

Autorenporträt

Bruce S. Cooper, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus, Education Administration and Public Policy, Graduate School of Education, Fordham University; having taught at University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College, after receiving his doctorate at the University of Chicago with Donald A. Erickson, as his mentor. Cooper has written 35 books on education politics and policy, including The Handbook of Education Politics and Policy, in two editions with Lance D. Fusarelli and James Cibulka; served as President of the Politics of Education Association and a founding member of Private School Research Association; and received the Jay D. Scribner Award for Mentoring and the UCEA.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
IntroductionScrewed-Up by the Wrong Paradigm: The Conflicting Purposes of
the Public Schools
Chapter 1Screwed-Up by Not Realizing: What Do Students Want? What Do
Students Need?
Chapter 2Empowering Educators for Change: You Can't Lead When You're on the
Wrong Road
Chapter 3Screwed-Up by Government and Governance
Chapter 4Screwed-Up by Clueless Boards of Education and Misguided Parent
Groups.
Chapter 5Screwed-Up by Methods of School Funding
Chapter 6Ending the Screwed-Up Continuum by Recognizing that the
Unachievable is Achievable
Chapter 7Ten Changes to End the Screwed-Up
References