Knowing Your Schools

Controversial Issues That Further Special Interest Groups

Jim Dueck (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2022
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-1-4758-6034-4 (ISBN)

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Education is a significant social program in our culture because we understand that learning well impacts our capacity to live well. Its importance produces many controversies because perspectives are greatly influenced by what policies and practices are implemented. Inevitably, the general public has insufficient time and/or interest to scratch away the veneer surrounding controversial matters and discover what should be.

This book identifies numerous conflicts within the field of education and provides the perspectives and information which stakeholders within the enterprise sweep aside or cover-up. An extensive data-base is used to demonstrate why existing policies and practices create unfair learning situations for our nation’s children, frequently described as our most valuable resource.
Policy-makers, both administrative and legislative, are caught in the middle; yet, they choose to avoid controversy by siding with educators. This book provides evidence of how the decision-making should be altered to achieve optimal learning in our North American schools.

Jim Dueck has had a career in education spanning forty years of service as a teacher, principal, superintendent, and deputy minister. He advised representatives from almost fifty education systems around the world, who sought suggestions regarding assessment and accountability in education, including the US government’s launching of the Race to the Top initiative and Common Core.

Preface
Chapter 1: You May Be A Student’s Parent
Chapter 2: Birth Month Projections
Chapter 3: Accountability in Education
Chapter 4: Job-For-Life Is A Wrong Practice
Chapter 5: Standardized Tests Are an Unwelcome Messenger
Chapter 6: The Males’ Ship Is Listing Badly
Chapter 7: Teacher Pay
Chapter 8: Parents’ Responsibility and Right
Chapter 9: Democratizing Education
Chapter 10: Schools Deal with The Sexual Revolution
Chapter 11: Students’ Cell Phones
Chapter 12: Unfairness of Prolonged Summer Vacations
Chapter 13: Coaches Are Not Evaluators
Chapter 14: Disregarding Our Best and Brightest
Chapter 15: Covid 19
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Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2021
Sprache	englisch
Maße	153 x 220 mm
Gewicht	349 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
ISBN-10	1-4758-6034-X / 147586034X
ISBN-13	978-1-4758-6034-4 / 9781475860344
Zustand	Neuware