Knowing Your Schools

Jim Dueck

doi:10.5771/9781475860351

Summary

Education is a significant social program in our culture because we understand that learning well impacts our capacity to live well. Its importance produces many controversies because perspectives are greatly influenced by what policies and practices are implemented. Inevitably, the general public has insufficient time and/or interest to scratch away the veneer surrounding controversial matters and discover what should be.

This book identifies numerous conflicts within the field of education and provides the perspectives and information which stakeholders within the enterprise sweep aside or cover-up. An extensive data-base is used to demonstrate why existing policies and practices create unfair learning situations for our nation’s children, frequently described as our most valuable resource.

Policy-makers, both administrative and legislative, are caught in the middle; yet, they choose to avoid controversy by siding with educators. This book provides evidence of how the decision-making should be altered to achieve optimal learning in our North American schools.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4758-6033-7
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4758-6035-1
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 202
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
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1. All Are Not Ready to Learn No access
2. Kindergarten Redshirting No access
3. The Dominant Rule for Beginning School No access
4. The Pressure to Succeed No access
5. But All Learn in School No access
6. Student Achievement by Birth Month No access
7. Dual Entry Provides the Best Solution No access
8. Student Retention Magnifies the Problem No access
9. Dual Entry Improves Student Achievement No access
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1. Students Are More Accountable Than Their Educators No access
2. Scoring the Work of Teachers No access
3. State, Province, and School District Evaluations No access
4. Accountability Requires Consequences No access
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1. Teacher Evaluations Demonstrate Low Standards No access
2. The Success of TeacherS’ Unions No access
3. The Tenure Tide Is Changing No access
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1. Grade Inflation in the United States No access
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1. Postsecondary Blockage No access
2. Public’s Focus on Gender Imbalance No access
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1. Power Point #14 No access
2. Teachers’ Work Schedule No access
3. Current Pay Bonuses Are Wrongheaded No access
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1. An Era of American Religiosity No access
2. Quality of Life No access
3. School Vouchers No access
4. The Value of ONE OF THE WORLD’S OLDEST BOOKS No access
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1. Comparing Magnet, Charter, and Private Schools No access
2. Teachers’ Unions No access
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1. The Chaos of Summer Vacation No access
2. THE IMPACT OF SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS ON STUDENT LEARNING No access
3. Benefits of Summer Learning No access
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1. The Role of Relationships in Inflated Assessment No access
2. The “Back Scratch” Effect No access
3. Revealing Hidden Secrets of a Poor Evaluation System No access
4. A New Frontier in Teacher Evaluation No access
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1. History of Acceleration No access
2. Clarifying Acceleration No access
3. Social Implications with Acceleration No access
4. Academic Implications with Acceleration No access
5. Savings Benefits No access
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Chapter 15: COVID-19 No access Pages 189 - 192
References No access Pages 193 - 202