Defining the Good School: Educational Adequacy Requires More than Minimums - Couverture rigide

Swensson, Jeff; Shaffer, Michael

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1475856202 ISBN 13 : 9781475856200

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield, 2020

Synopsis

The deck is stacked against educators and parents/caregivers looking for educational adequacy in contemporary US education. Too often, satisfactory quality in the good public school is identified based on opinion, the dubious value of standardized test results, and marketing ploys. Moreover, the contemporary purpose of US education and the definition of educational adequacy are wild cards that prevent most from playing a winning hand.



Finding the good public school is left to chance. This book initiates a search to transform this state of affairs. All students deserve a comprehensive public education that invests in the original power of education, dynamic instruction, and principled reasoning.



This discussion tackles the barriers-the eye of the beholder, the tyranny of either/or, and standardized testing-that hobble the capacities of educators and students. Once these barriers are removed, the determinants of comprehensive public education-power, policy, and instruction-emerge.



From these discoveries implications are derived that indicate how comprehensive public educationengages educators and students with a transformed definition of educational adequacy. The good public school depends on this and a complete readjustment of the purpose of US public education. This search enables educators and parents/caregivers to identify and establish the good public school without taking any chances.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Jeff Swensson is a veteran educator who has served in public schools throughout the Midwest. He is the co-author or author of six books that focus on instruction, curriculum, leadership, finance, student learning, and contemporary issues in traditional public education.

Michael Shaffer spent just over 25 years as an elementary school principal who developed a boys' book club with over 100 boys who would skip recess to hang out with him to talk about books, and a Boys Read section of the library to facilitate the ease of book choice and access for boys. He has traveled all over the country speaking about getting boys to read.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield
• Date d'édition: 2020
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1475856202
• ISBN 13: 9781475856200
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 168
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Rowman & Littlefield; https://rowman.com/; ; 4501 Forbes Blvd, Suite 200; Lanham; MD; 20706; Etats-Unis
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