In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization - Couverture rigide

Meier, Deborah

 
9780807031421: In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0807031429 ISBN 13 : 9780807031421
Editeur : Beacon Pr, 2002

Synopsis

Book by Meier Deborah

Les informations fournies dans la section « Synopsis » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Présentation de l'éditeur

We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states-as our national surrogates for trust.

Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win our faith by showing they can do their job. But she argues just as fiercely that standardized testing is precisely the wrong way to that end. The tests themselves, she argues, cannot give the results they claim. And in the meantime, they undermine the kind of education we actually want.

In this multilayered exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and puts forward a different vision, forged in the success stories of small public schools she and her colleagues have created in Boston and New York. These nationally acclaimed schools are built, famously, around trusting teachers-and students and parents-to use their own judgment.

Meier traces the enormous educational value of trust; the crucial and complicated trust between parents and teachers; how teachers need to become better judges of each others' work; how race and class complicate trust at all levels; and how we can begin to 'scale up' from the kinds of successes she has created.

Revue de presse

'A rich, nuanced reflection on trust and schooling that examines trust's many layers. . . . A terrific, important book.' --Mike Rose, author of Possible Lives

'A passionate, jargon-free plea for a rerouting of educational reform, sure to energize committed parents, progressive educators and maybe even a politician or two.' --Publishers Weekly

'Listen carefully to Deborah Meier's In Schools We Trust: She speaks to the heart of a school-and of democracy itself.' --Theodore R. Sizer, author of Horace's Compromise and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools.

Les informations fournies dans la section « A propos du livre » peuvent faire référence à une autre édition de ce titre.

Éditeur
Beacon Pr
Date d'édition
2002
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0807031429
ISBN 13 
9780807031421
Reliure
Relié
Numéro d'édition
1
Nombre de pages
200
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible

Autres éditions populaires du même titre

9780807031513: In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0807031518 ISBN 13 :  9780807031513
Editeur : Beacon Press, 2003
Couverture souple