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What Is Authentic Educational Reform? - Pushing Against the Compassionate Conservative Agenda (Paperback)
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What Is Authentic Educational Reform? - Pushing Against the Compassionate Conservative Agenda (Paperback)
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"In response to the nationwide attacks on education in the name of
educational reform packaged in No Child Left Behind, general
analyses and local accounts of these attacks, as well as arguments
on behalf of 'authentic educational reform' are badly needed....
This volume offers a useful combination of specific case studies,
theory, and policy." - Gerald Coles, educational psychologist, US
Challenging the compassionate conservative agenda for educational
reform -- an agenda which seeks to improve American education
through a business model focused on scripted lessons, lock-step
approaches to teaching, high stakes-testing, and rigid
accountability measures -- this book critiques the assumptions of
this agenda, examines the problems that have riddled its
implementation in schools, and suggests constructive alternatives.
Educational theorists and researchers including Joel Spring, Sonia
Nieto, Bill Ayers, and Susan Ohanian, classroom teachers, and
parents, offer a mix of perspectives on: the social and political
contexts of current educational reform initiatives; the impact of
the compassionate conservative agenda on educational policies and
practices; the ways in which children and teachers are affected by
this agenda and its policies; and approaches that hold out hope for
implementing authentic education reform. Intended for education
professionals, students, and scholars, What Is Authentic
Educational Reform? poses more questions than it answers, but taken
together, these questions constitute a foundation for a more
informed and thoughtful public conversation about how to refocus
reform efforts in a direction that will truly strengthen American
public education for all children and their families.
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