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Exploring the Myths and the Realities of Today's Schools
A Candid Review of the Challenges Educators Face
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2010
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Exploring the Myths and Realities of Today's Schools presents a strong case regarding the strengths and successes of our schools, while also addressing the major challenges currently facing our teachers and school administrators. This sympathetic look at the daily work life of our educators directly confronts issues with our changing student population, teacher unions, poor family dynamics, financial inequities, and student performance on international achievement tests. The author offers data and insights that counter the conventional wisdom that significant improvements will occur simply by expanding charter schools, by implementing merit pay for teachers more widely, or by emulating foreign educational systems. The book offers recommendations for school improvement that are both practical and effective. While many books on public education are written from the perspective of academics or political pundits, this book offers perspectives from the viewpoint of teachers, school principals, school superintendents, and school board members. The author brings his experience and insights from forty plus years in public education as a teacher, principal, and superintendent to provide his from-the-trenches perspective on the true nature of public schooling in the United States.
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Copyright year
2010
ISBN-Print
978-1-60709-849-2
ISBN-Online
978-1-60709-851-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
198
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Chapter 01. Teachers—The Heart of the Matter No access Pages 1 - 10
Chapter 02. Daily Life of a Teacher No access Pages 11 - 18
Chapter 03. Demographic Changes and Student Achievement No access Pages 19 - 30
Chapter 04. The Impact of Teachers Unions No access Pages 31 - 38
Chapter 05. The Myth of Merit Pay No access Pages 39 - 46
Chapter 06. School Charters, Vouchers, and Privatization No access Pages 47 - 56
Chapter 07. The Legal Tangle in Education No access Pages 57 - 66
Chapter 08. Curriculum and Instruction—The What and How of Schooling No access Pages 67 - 74
Chapter 09. Students Then and Now No access Pages 75 - 82
Chapter 10. The Parent Factor No access Pages 83 - 90
Chapter 11. The Limits of Local Control No access Pages 91 - 98
Chapter 12. School Boards No access Pages 99 - 110
Chapter 13. The Superintendent—CEO of the School District No access Pages 111 - 124
Chapter 14. The Critical Role of the School Principal No access Pages 125 - 134
Chapter 15. Special Education and Other Special Services No access Pages 135 - 142
Chapter 16. School Finance No access Pages 143 - 154
Chapter 17. Schools as Organizations No access Pages 155 - 164
Chapter 18. International Comparisons No access Pages 165 - 176
