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Author
Publisher
Basic Books/Perseus
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
An urgent case for protecting public education, from one of America's best-known education experts
In this landmark book, Diane Ravitch - former assistant secretary of education and a leader in the drive to create a national curriculum, examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once staunchly advocated. Drawing on over forty years of research and experience, Ravitch critiques today's most popular ideas for restructuring...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Addresses the failures and consequences of America's early education system, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum that provides an educational foundation for all students to strengthen American unity, identity, and democracy.
Author
Series
S. hrg volume 114-767
Publisher
U.S. Government Publishing Office
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Publisher
Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Dept. of Education
Pub. Date
2001]
Language
English
Description
Discusses how the relationships of charter schools with authorizers affect their day-to-day operations and how they develop relationships of trust and confidence with parents, teachers, and other community members.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"From two leading experts in education and entrepreneurship, an urgent call for the radical re-imagining of American education so that we better equip students for the realities of the twenty-first century economy. Today more than ever, we prize academic achievement, pressuring our children to get into the "right" colleges, have the highest GPAs, and pursue advanced degrees. But while students may graduate with credentials, by and large they lack...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
For decades we've been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there's still little consensus on what works and what to do. The one thing people seem to agree on is that schools need to be held accountable - we need to know whether what they're doing is actually working. But what does it mean in practice? High-stakes tests. Lots of them. And that has created a crisis in American schools....
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
This book explores politically charged topics through a series of essays by thinkers at the leading edge of educational innovation. It shows how failing schools destroy neighborhoods--not the reverse--and how research reveals that dedicated, attentive teachers are what help at-risk kids succeed. Inspired the film directed by "An Inconvenient Truth"'s Davis Guggenheim.