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Autor/in | Collins, Justin |
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Titel | Burning cash. How costly public school failures have charred the American dream. |
Quelle | Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Education, a division of Rowman & Littlefield (2014), XVII, 231 S. |
Beigaben | Illustrationen; Literaturangaben |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Monographie |
ISBN | 9781610485272; 9781610485289; 9781610485296 (elektronisch) |
Schlagwörter | USA; Education; United States; Educational change; Public schools; Bildungsgeschichte |
Abstract | Accessing the American dream -- Amazing stories of amazing children -- Cut-throat competition hits a middle school near you -- Importance of SAT in admissions process -- Mixed news -- Employment prospects -- Daunting demography -- Changing times, indeed -- Two states, two fates -- Smooth operator -- States, two fates -- The Kentucky miracle? -- The scope of kera -- Hard and fast obligations -- The reform battleground of Ohio -- Painful unintended consequences -- Concluding thoughts on the reform shockwaves -- What money can't buy -- Risky business -- A national study -- A national study by the numbers -- Delving deeper -- Big four background -- Spending in the big four -- Digging deeper -- The potency of wealth in the big four -- A glance at the funding-achievement relationship in litigation hotbeds -- Ohio in turmoil -- States, two very different stories -- Concluding thoughts -- It's about learning, stupid! -- Penetrating pedagogy -- Exploring the wealth factor -- Wishful thinking -- Pedagogy still king -- Unintentional harm -- Twenty-first century teacher pedagogy -- Student higher-order exercises -- Concluding suggestions: what to look for -- Placing the reform focus back on the classroom -- Unearthing what matters in our schools -- The universality of real reform -- Spelling out the IPI process -- Understanding not just the machinery, but the underlying processes -- Mapping out what instructional reform efforts entail -- Surveys showing promise of change -- Why "almost" doesn't count -- Too many reform strawmen -- Buttressing their core competencies -- When reform plans fall flat -- The real, readily available reform assets -- It's about both people and process!. |
Erfasst von | Library of Congress, Washington, DC |
Update | 2014/2/06 |