Teaching as a Secular Calling. Parental Choice and Excellence

Autor/in	Holloway, Charles C.
Titel	Teaching as a Secular Calling. Parental Choice and Excellence
Quelle	In: Educational Horizons, 83 (2005) 2, S.143-152 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-175X
Schlagwörter	Public Schools; Teaching (Occupation); Career Choice; Nontraditional Education; School Choice; High Schools; Parents; Teachers; Parent School Relationship + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Public school; Öffentliche Schule; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Non-traditional education; Alternative Erziehung; Choice of school; Schulwahl; High school; Oberschule; Eltern; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Parent-school relationship; Parent school relationships; Parent-school relationships; Parent-school relation; Parent school relation; Eltern-Schule-Beziehung
Abstract	The alternative school movement is a threat to the traditional educational system, as well it should be. The traditionalists see that, and fear it. Lower enrollment, nonexistent discipline, absence of learning with respect to declining test scores and evaluation measures, disrespect for teachers by students, administrators, and parents, low salaries, strikes--the list is endless. The need for change is imperative. Where education has been is no longer filling the bill, and the need for a new educational ideology ought not to be ignored. The most painstakingly designed system of public school diversity and choice might allow teachers and other educators to design the schools of their dreams and allow parents to choose among those schools based on solid information about each, all within a framework of protection and accountability--and yet the resulting schools might largely prove uninspired carbon copies produced by educators lacking the foggiest idea of how to do anything differently. (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10