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Creating Educational Access, Equity, and Opportunity for All
Real Change Requires Redesigning Public Education to Reflect Today's World
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2014
Summary
Louis Sullivan, an American architect, was referred to as the "father of modernism" and coined the phrase "form follows function.” His phrase provides a key insight into the state of public education in America. The existing form for public education is industrial in nature and is not a match for what should be the function of an education system in an information age society—one that is characterized by technology, globalism, a new definition of work, and rapid, relentless change.
This book explains how the mismatch between function and form is creating circumstances that are putting the future of public education at risk, leading to system dysfunction, deregulation, and privatization. Public education needs to be redesigned and reformatted to match the function of the age in which we now live. The current structure and function denies too many students the levels of access, equity, and opportunity that their parents once enjoyed. Achieving that outcome is important to the economic, social, and political wellbeing of America.
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-0698-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-0699-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
155
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Preface No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 10
1 A Society in Conflict No access Pages 11 - 18
2 Three Generations of Reform No access Pages 19 - 26
3 Why Reform Initiatives Have Not Worked No access Pages 27 - 30
4 The Clattering Train No access Pages 31 - 36
5 The Wrong Road No access Pages 37 - 42
6 Differing Ages—Differing Contexts No access Pages 43 - 50
7 Responding to Change in the Face of Adversity No access Pages 51 - 56
8 The Context for Change No access Pages 57 - 60
9 The Importance of Prior Learning to the Reform/Change Process No access Pages 61 - 64
10 The Processes of Reform No access Pages 65 - 72
11 The Organizational Structures of Reform No access Pages 73 - 90
12 Identifying Needed Reforms to Practice No access Pages 91 - 112
13 Shaping the Reform Process No access Pages 113 - 128
14 Building a Reform Process That Responds to Continuous and Rapid Change No access Pages 129 - 136
15 What the Future Holds No access Pages 137 - 142
