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Book Synopsis Fixing Our Schools from the Bottom Up by : United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget
Download or read book Fixing Our Schools from the Bottom Up written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Budget and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Fixing Our Schools from the Bottom Up by : John R. Kasich
Download or read book Fixing Our Schools from the Bottom Up written by John R. Kasich and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2001-04 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witnesses: Jeb Bush, Governor of the State of Florida; Richard W. Riley, Secretary, Department of Education; George V. Voinovich, U.S. Senator from the State of Ohio; Dwight Evans, a State Representative from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Virginia Markell, President, National PTA; John T. Walton, Co-Chairman of the Children's Scholarship Fund; and Rose Blassingame and Vermont White, Washington Scholarship Fund.
Book Synopsis What's Wrong with Our Schools by : Michael C. Zwaagstra
Download or read book What's Wrong with Our Schools written by Michael C. Zwaagstra and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's Wrong with Our Schools and How We Can Fix Them examines the status of public education in North America and exposes many of the absurd instructional practices found in all-too-many schools. Written by three experienced educators, this book provides readers with a direct window into public education. The language is straightforward, the case studies based on real events, and the research evidence clearly presented. With chapter titles like, 'Subject Matter Matters,' 'A Pass Should be Earned,' and 'There is Too Much Edu-Babble,' the authors systematically demolish the ridiculous fads that have taken hold of public education. As unashamed apologists for the importance of knowledge and content in school curricula, the authors clearly show why the views of romantic progressives, like those of popular author Alfie Kohn, fail to stand up to rigorous scrutiny. A consistent focus on common sense permeates this book and provides parents, teachers, and administrators with practical ways in which they can help improve public education. Anyone interested in the future of public education will benefit from reading this book. For more information, visit www.fixingourschools.com.
Book Synopsis Race to the Bottom by : Michael V. McGill
Download or read book Race to the Bottom written by Michael V. McGill and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the country that invented the modern public school end up embracing policies that weaken it? What alternatives are there to current corporate reform policies? How can we give America’s children an education that will truly prepare them and our nation for the challenges of tomorrow? In Race to the Bottom, McGill successfully traces the emergence of corporate reform and describes how its tenets run counter to what he believes are the key elements of a high-quality education. McGill draws from a wealth of experience as a school superintendent for over 40 years, including his tenure in Scarsdale during the 2001 district-wide boycott of New York State standardized tests. Showing how strong leaders working with teachers and the community have been able to strengthen schools, the author offers a model of school reform that will prepare students for the 21st century. “An acute analysis of the failure of corporate school reform, a sobering tale of its damages, and an urgent call for changing course, all from a veteran education leader of the nation's best schools.” —Yong Zhao, internationally known scholar, author, and speaker “Into an often toxic, unreasoning, and polarized education debate, Michael McGill introduces a much needed voice of reason, experience, and hope. McGill is a rare combination of experienced day-to-day practitioner of public school teaching and administration, and cogent historical analyst of the American education system. If you're looking for an overview that combines passion for education with an unerring feeling of veracity, this is the place to find it.” —Nicholas Lemann, Pulitzer-Moore Professor and Dean Emeritus at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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Book Synopsis A Legacy of Learning by : David T. Kearns
Download or read book A Legacy of Learning written by David T. Kearns and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2010-12-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's wrong with America's schools? Why can't we fix them? How did we wind up with dropout rates of 25 percent and graduates who can barely read and write? Why does the United States spend twice as much on education as the international average and wind up near the bottom of the barrel in global comparisons of student achievement? Why do we lag behind nations such as South Korea, Hungary, and Singapore? And how should we go about improving the situation? Answers to these questions lie at the heart of this volume. David T. Kearns and James Harvey contend we are fine-tuning failure. We have yet to break with the past in order to face a different and challenging future. Despite worshiping at the altar of "local control" we have managed to create cookie-cutter schools across the country. We have been sidestepping the transparent need for common expectations about what students should know and be able to do. Standards, the authors say, are not clear enough or high enough. Above all, we have met the enemy and it is us: all of us support "change" as long as someone else is changing. This book is a fascinating and provocative analysis of where we went wrong and what we need to do to get American education back on track. It defines the kind of education our kids deserve. It calls for a new definition of "public education" in which choice is taken for granted. And it outlines an action agenda to help parents and citizens make first-class schools truly their own. In the future, the authors argue, we should think of a public school as any other non-profit entity—capable of operating in the public interest free of the red tape now strangling public education. It should be paid for by the public and accountable to the public, with its charter or contract routinely revoked when it stops serving public purposes or fails to meet its performance goals.
Book Synopsis Improving Schools from the Bottom Up by :
Download or read book Improving Schools from the Bottom Up written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Improving Schools from the Bottom Up by : Patrick M. Shields
Download or read book Improving Schools from the Bottom Up written by Patrick M. Shields and published by U.S. Government Printing Office. This book was released on 1995 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This document presents findings of a national study of effective schools programs and other school-based reforms conducted during school year 1991-92. The reforms were broadly defined to encompass school-site improvement efforts designed to develop schoolwide capacity for problem solving, to improve teaching, and to increase student learning. Data were obtained from a survey of a nationally representative sample of local school districts (n=1,555), surveys of administrators in all state education agencies, and intensive case studies of 5 states, 16 districts, and 32 schools. Data from the district survey show that school-based reform was relatively widespread, occurring at all school levels. The case-study data suggest that change efforts varied widely across districts and schools. The study examined the degree to which the reform effort involved meaningful collaboration among school staff, staff ownership of the change process, a focus on teaching and curriculum, building professional capacity among staff, and a focus on student outcomes and equity. The case-study data suggest that the more promising examples of school-based reform often shared a set of characteristics--a clear focus on creating more challenging learning experiences for all students, a school culture in which teachers worked collaboratively and had a voice in decision making, and opportunities for faculty development. The following recommendations are made for supporting promising reform efforts: (1) find a balance between top-down and bottom-up structures; (2) adapt leadership and vision at every level of the system; (3) build local capacity-building systems; (4) devolve some authority to school staff; and (5) clearly tie government mandates and requirements to learning goals. A total of 32 tables and 1 figure are included. Appendices contain notes on methodology and copies of the survey instruments. (LMI)
Download or read book Remaking Our Schools written by Ed Pino and published by Inst of Graduate Studies. This book was released on 1993 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis What The Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era by : Eric Kalenze
Download or read book What The Academy Taught Us: Improving Schools from the Bottom Up in a Top-Down Transformation Era written by Eric Kalenze and published by John Catt. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Early in the 2000s, a high-school principal in Minnesota, Dr. Bob Perdaems, faced a complex challenge. The demographics of his school were shifting, political tensions in the surrounding communities were rising, and, thanks to the No Child Left Behind Act's new testing and accountability requirements, his school's performance was soon to be scrutinized more intensely and more publicly than ever before. While he had several visions of how his school could continuously improve through these realities, however, he had no additional budget to bring his ideas to life.Undaunted, Dr. Bob set to creating school improvements the best way he knew how--and that, of course, he could afford: he prioritized his school's areas for growth, found teachers who would lend minds and hands, and gathered them to look at the blueprints. What the Academy Taught Us is a book about the collaborative school-improvement culture Dr. Bob created in his Minnesota high school: the principles that initiated it, the collective effort that kept it running, and the lasting effects it had on its teachers and students. The book also brilliantly explores how bottom-up approaches like Dr. Bob's fare in the current era, which seeks to transform schools through more top-down and 'disruptive' means. Ultimately, What the Academy Taught Us offers today's educators a way forward. While largely viewing the difficult work of school improvement through the prism of a single school, it presents abundant recommendations about how schools everywhere can build effective and continuous improvement from the bottom up.
Book Synopsis Rebuilding Our Schools from the Bottom Up by : Fiona Carnie
Download or read book Rebuilding Our Schools from the Bottom Up written by Fiona Carnie and published by . This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This inspiring book explores how schools can take greater control of their futures and transform their culture by strengthening voice, participation and the understanding of what it means to be part of a learning community. A wealth of imaginative, practical and sustainable initiatives are included, where teachers are able to openly share and discuss the challenges they face, parents are actively involved and supported, and young people are allowed, and encouraged, to contribute to decisions about their learning. The book is essential reading for anyone interested in how to build robust, dynamic and responsive learningcommunities through positive, bottom-up change.
Book Synopsis Fixing Urban Schools by : Paul Thomas Hill
Download or read book Fixing Urban Schools written by Paul Thomas Hill and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one. Cleveland, Baltimore and Washington, DC, are struggling to recreate their failed school systems and many more cities are likely to follow. City leaders need more than new superintendents. They need stable reform strategies strong enough to move an entrenched system. Unfortunately, it is not clear where they can turn for help. Education experts are deeply divided about whether teacher retraining or new standards are enough to reform a struggling city system, or whether more fundamental changes, such as family choice and family-run schools, are needed. Based on new research, this book identifies the essential elements of reform strategies that can transform school performance in big cities beset by poverty, social instability, racial isolation and labour unrest.
Book Synopsis Improving Schools from the Bottom Up by :
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Book Synopsis Fixing the United States Education System by : Cynthia Pritchett
Download or read book Fixing the United States Education System written by Cynthia Pritchett and published by . This book was released on 2019-08-21 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Something is wrong with America's schools. How many people can you find that will say America's schools are great? Our education system is not even in the International top 10. Something needs to change, but what? Fixing the United States Education System (book and workbook) will help you fix your school. This means being able to change a school's culture, but how? Without the ability to identify school culture and which of its characteristics is problematic, you cannot know how to systemically transform school culture. The purpose of this book and workbook is to relate school culture to everyday practice with enough clarity to be useful to school leaders, teachers, parents, and students so you can fix your school. After years of researching, and even more years of experience working in many different types of schools, I've learned that solving our school culture crisis is the key to fixing our schools. Using Fixing the United States Education System: a guidebook to school culture and its role in fixing our schools and Fixing the United States Education System a workbook for identifying school culture to help school leaders, teachers, and parents, fix their school culture crisis is the key to fixing our schools. The time has begun for us to get to work. Grab your books and let's begin. We have a lot of work to do!
Book Synopsis Change Agents by : Partners in School Innovation
Download or read book Change Agents written by Partners in School Innovation and published by Corwin Publishers. This book was released on 2022-10-25 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Teachers, you are the hope you've been looking for. For over twenty-five years, Partners in School Innovation has empowered educators to take the reins and change how things are done in their schools. Their secrets? Specialized adult learning tools, a results-oriented cycle of inquiry, support for understanding the roles of race, class, culture, and power in schools, and more. This book presents their time-tested, research-based practices through narratives chronicling the efforts of real-life educators. Features include: A strengths-based, explicitly antiracist framework Tactics for managing community resistance and cultural barriers Sustainable change strategies and pragmatic actions for educators and school leaders alike Guidance on community outreach, self-care, and building positive culture through leadership Tips for balancing competing priorities Checklists, tools, and online resources
Book Synopsis Against School Reform (And in Praise of Great Teaching) by : Peter S. Temes
Download or read book Against School Reform (And in Praise of Great Teaching) written by Peter S. Temes and published by Ivan R. Dee. This book was released on 2003-07-07 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the midst of the continuing controversy over the right ways to bring change to American schools, Peter Temes’s book is a firebell in the night. In Against School Reform Mr. Temes sets out a straightforward prescription for our schools which centers on the life of the individual teacher and rejects the billion-dollar school reform industry. He argues that enormous monies and millions of hours of effort have gone into reforming American schools in the past ten years, and we have precious little to show for it. As we enter a critical period in American history—a growing population, an uncompromising demand for well-educated workers, and the complexities of world politics impacting ordinary people every day—there is not more time or money to waste. In Mr. Temes’s view, great teachers are the secret to making better schools. Forget the macro issues of school reform, he advises, and focus on recruiting, retaining, and supporting the very best teachers. Teaching will once again become an elite profession, and school problems will go the way of the trolley car. Against School Reform digs deep into the qualities of great teaching, with stories from real schools and with practical advice for parents, teachers, and students who want to celebrate and support great teachers. It also takes a serious look at what our schools must do to recruit and reward the best teachers in the coming era of teacher shortages. Finally, the book celebrates the power of individual teachers to make a difference in their schools and communities, as forces for bottom-up change. More tests won’t fix our schools, Mr. Temes writes. Bigger, better ideas about education won't fix things either. But great teachers can fix our schools, one classroom at a time.
Download or read book Faulty Assumptions written by Jason Davis and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling book, professional educator, Jason Davis, shares his insider perspective about why, despite millions of tax dollars and decades of school reform, we are no closer to achieving meaningful change in our nation's public schools. Readers follow Davis on a first-person journey through the realities of the public school system punctuated by shocking and sometimes horrific true stories about the lives of students, teachers, and families with whom he has worked. Along the way, he dispels the faulty assumptions that have been perpetuated by the media and politicians about why America's children are being left behind, and leaves the reader with a deeper understanding of the true crisis facing our schools and our children. Faulty Assumptions is a poignant, accessible, and fresh look at the world of public school education guaranteed to challenge the current dialogue about where America should be looking for answers to the nation's education woes.
