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Education Under Siege
Frauds, Fads, Fantasies and Fictions in Educational Reform
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2013
Summary
We Americans seem prone to bandwagon onto fads, particularly now that reforming education has become a national priority. Unfortunately, many of those fads now caroming across our continent are outright frauds; some are fantasies, even fictions. Even more unfortunately, many are undermining our public schools, teachers, kids and communities, and pillaging our tax dollars in the process.
This book analyzes each major reform--No Child Left Behind, Common Core State Standards, grading schools, evaluating teachers, failing students, vouchers, charters, online virtual charters-- and finds them seriously wanting. We conclude with reforms that work actually helping teachers, kids, parents and communities.
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Copyright year
2013
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-0308-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-0309-9
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
192
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter One: No Child Left Behind (NCLB), Race to the Top (NCLB 2.0), and Their Basis—The Accountability Movement No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter Two: Common Core State Standards (for 310 Million Americans!) No access Pages 17 - 28
Chapter Three: Merit and Teacher Evaluation—Another Fraud No access Pages 29 - 38
Chapter Four: Instead of Teacher Evaluation, Which Isn’t Working—A Different Approach No access Pages 39 - 50
Chapter Five: Evaluating Teachers by Using Value-Added Models (VAMs) (Whatever That Means) No access Pages 51 - 62
Chapter Six: Failing Kids—Still a Failure No access Pages 63 - 80
Chapter Seven: Evaluating vs. Grading (Really Rating) Schools No access Pages 81 - 92
Chapter Eight: Privatization: Fad, Fraud, Fantasy and/or Fiction? No access Pages 93 - 108
Chapter Nine: Charter Schools: A Form of Privatization No access Pages 109 - 124
Chapter Ten: Vouchers: Another Form of Privatization No access Pages 125 - 140
Chapter Eleven: Virtual Charter Schools: Privatization on Steroids No access Pages 141 - 158
Chapter Twelve: Miracles (or Really, Mirages) for the Gullible No access Pages 159 - 170
Chapter Thirteen: Major Reforms That Really Work No access Pages 171 - 190
