Renewal

Harold Kwalwasser

doi:10.5771/9781610486897

Summary

Harold Kwalwasser has put together a call to action for education reform that makes a clear case for what has to be done in order to educate all children to their full potential. He visited forty high-performing and transforming school districts, charters, parochial, and private schools to understand why they have succeeded where others have failed. The analysis in Renewal: Remaking America's Schools for the Twenty-First Century brings together all of the necessary changes in one dynamic strategy. Many schools, even though facing seemingly impossible odds, have succeeded brilliantly. But their histories also reflect that there are neither silver bullets or demons. The heart of successful reform is systemic change, which requires the patience, understanding, and commitment of every adult who has a role in the process, from parents and taxpayers, to the school board members, superintendents, and teachers, and on to state legislators and members of Congress.

Renewal offers a clear picture of how to move away from the mass-production style of education that most schools offered throughout the twentieth century to a new, more innovative, and flexible model that can meet this country's promise of truly educating every child and preparing each of them for the challenges ahead.

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Bibliographic data

Copyright year: 2012
ISBN-Print: 978-1-61048-688-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-61048-689-7
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 325
Product type: Book Titles

1. Contents No access
2. Preface No access
3. Introduction No access
1. Chapter One: Management Theory 101 No access
2. Chapter Two: Human Relations 101 No access
3. Chapter Three: Politics 101 No access
1. Chapter Four: Superintendents No access
2. Chapter Five: Principals No access
1. Chapter Six: A Brave New World No access
2. Chapter Seven: Keeping—and Working with—Those You Have No access
3. Chapter Eight: Training New (and More) Teachers Inside the System No access
4. Chapter Nine: The Rest of Your Life—Good Teachers Can Always Get Better: The Professional Learning Community No access
5. Chapter Ten: Training New (and More) Teachers: Working the Pipeline into the Classroom No access
6. Chapter Eleven: Creating More Alternative Training and Certification Programs No access
7. Chapter Twelve: What Is a Good Teacher?: Evaluation in a Professional World No access
8. Chapter Thirteen: Tenure No access
9. Chapter Fourteen: Motivating Teachers: Is Pay the Be-All and End-All? No access
10. Chapter Fifteen: The Coleman Report Effect on Motivation: Do Teachers Have Low Expectations of Poor Kids? No access
11. Chapter Sixteen: The Special Challenge of Hard-to-Staff Schools No access
1. Chapter Seventeen: Do Not Lose Sight of the Student No access
2. Chapter Eighteen: Seeing Every Child for Who They Are, Not Who We Assume Them to Be—Replacing One Curriculum Taught One Way No access
3. Chapter Nineteen: Ending a System Designed to Lose Track of Kids—Paying Attention to Real Students, Not to the Assumptions We Make about Them No access
4. Chapter Twenty: Assessing Students: Never Letting Them Fall Too Far Behind No access
5. Chapter Twenty-one: Parents: One Half of a Confused Partnership No access
6. Chapter Twenty-two: Parents: Long-Ignored Customers and Owners No access
1. Chapter Twenty-three: Six Beliefs No access
2. Chapter Twenty-four: Eight Practices No access
3. Chapter Twenty-five: A Case Study in What It Takes to Fail No access
4. Chapter Twenty-six: The Things Not Done No access
1. Chapter Twenty-seven: The Role of the States No access
2. Chapter Twenty-eight: The Role of the Federal Government No access
1. Chapter Twenty-nine: The Education System We Need—the System of Schools We Want No access
Acknowledgments No access Pages 293 - 294
Appendix I: The Blueprint for Action—an Outline of What We Need to Do No access Pages 295 - 304
Appendix II: A Proposed School “Disclosure Document” No access Pages 305 - 314
Index No access Pages 315 - 324
About the Author No access Pages 325 - 325