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The Puzzle Palace - An Inside View of Decline in Our Schools (Paperback)
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The Puzzle Palace - An Inside View of Decline in Our Schools (Paperback)
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Loot Price R448
Discovery Miles 4 480
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"The Puzzle Palace - An Inside View of Decline in Our Schools" is a
revealing look at the decline of public education in Louisiana.
Student test scores have steadily declined over the years
corresponding with an increasing number of high school dropouts in
many areas in Louisiana. This has resulted in the closing of public
schools that have not met established academic standards. There has
been a corresponding increase in home schooling along with an
increase in attendance at private schools, private Christian
schools, and Charter schools. The responsibility for this trend has
been targeted at the local schools and more specifically, the
classroom teacher. This book shows that the factors contributing to
the above trends are much more complex than previously thought and
have progressed over a period of time. It also shows that policy
makers and/or lawmakers make educationally unsound decisions and
then require the local schools to implement them; hence "The Puzzle
Palace," There is an underlying negative spiritual element that
cannot be denied that is also part of the overall problem picture.
The stories in this book have been based on actual events but job
descriptions and most details have been changed. The opinions
expressed are the author's and are based on thirty one years of
experience in the school system. In the end, Burnham places the
ultimate blame not completely upon 'The Puzzle Palace' itself, but
upon mankind's eternal enemy who has absolute disregard for the
sacred creation of man, himself. For Burnham, if those who have
been granted ultimate responsibility for the education system would
understand one of his modes of operation, "to destroy a people or a
nation" by way of, "the parallel decline of the schools," perhaps
'The Puzzle Palace' would find more appropriate ways of policy
implementation thus reversing educational decline rather than
promoting its proliferation. Hope exists, if the Palace would
listen to the masses.
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