The Dark Side of School Reform: Teaching in the Space between Reality and Utopia The Dark Side of School Reform directly engages some of the more difficult aspects of working as an educator in a public school. This book investigates what it means to teach, lead, and live during times of ongoing and intense change [...] Read more »
Ravitch on Obama charter school accountability Race To The Top 1% public education reform vs
Diane Ravitch on Arne Duncan, 1% Obama charter public education school reform teacher bashing no child left behind race to the top. She did not say the SEGREGATION word but spoke of a two tier education system when charter schools exclude low performing kids poor kids and needy kids with disabilities. Billionaires blame teachers for [...] Read more »
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education In her critically acclaimed national best seller, Diane Ravitch examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once fiercely defended. Evaluating wildly popular ideas for restructuring schools, including charter schools and testing, she explains why [...] Read more »
More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee
More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple, overlapping, and often conflicting strategies to advance the race by gaining [...] Read more »
Pittsburgh Schools Deal With Discipline
Pittsburgh Schools are still fully embroiled in the high school reforms enacted in 2006. A task force, with goals are similar to those of the federal No Child Left Behind Act, is currently leading the reforms. Pittsburgh Schools evaluate the reforms in accordance with the Excellence for All Plan, an initiative that seeks to develop [...] Read more »
Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment (S U N Y Series, Reform in Mathematics Education)
Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment (S U N Y Series, Reform in Mathematics Education) Today new ways of thinking about learning call for new ways for monitoring learning. Reform in School Mathematics builds from the vision that assessment can become the bridge for instructional activity, accountability, and teacher development. It places teachers in [...] Read more »
The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation (Jossey-Bass Education Series)
The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation (Jossey-Bass Education Series) In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. [...] Read more »
Diane Ravitch On School Reform, Part 1
From NYU’s Radical Film and Lecture Series held on 3/26/10 full video can be found at www.rfls.blip.tv description: What type of School Reform do we really want? A public discussion featuring: Diane Ravitch — Author of over twenty books, former Assistant Secretary of Education under President George HW Bush, and currently research professor of education [...] Read more »
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education ISBN13: 9780465014910 Condition: New Notes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold! A passionate plea to preserve and renew public education, The Death and Life of [...] Read more »
A Teacher’s Perspective On School Reform
When people talk about problems with our schools, I hear a lot of blame: blaming, teachers, blaming parents, blaming kids. And when they talk about how to reform schools, I hear a lot of “get tough” measures: get tough on schools, get tough on teachers, get tough on kids. What I don’t hear are the [...] Read more »