Education today is increasingly focused on tests and testing.
Teachers are being judged on how much they can increase test scores
from one year to the next. These year-to-year gains in scores are
part of a "value-added" approach to teacher evaluation, and
value-added teacher assessment is all the rage now. A main point of
this book is that while teachers do add value when they enable
students to increase their performance on standardized tests, this
is neither the only nor the most important value they add. An
analysis of 40 years of data on teachers suggests that an equally
if not more important value added is their contribution to the
stability of our increasingly unsteady democracy. Teachers help
steady modern democracy by teaching children the limits of liberty
and by cultivating the social virtues--trust, cooperation,
helpfulness, and the like--upon which civil society depends. We
need not only to recognize this but also to avoid education
policies that undermine their willingness and ability to do so.
General
| Imprint: |
Rowman & Littlefield Education
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
October 2013 |
| First published: |
October 2013 |
| Authors: |
Robert Slater
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| Dimensions: |
239 x 158 x 15mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
138 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-4758-0006-7 |
| Categories: |
Books >
Social sciences >
Education >
Philosophy of education
Promotions
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| LSN: |
1-4758-0006-1 |
| Barcode: |
9781475800067 |
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