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Education Technology and the Failure of American Schools
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2014
Summary
This book looks at the progress of American education in the use of technology since the publication of Stallard and Cocker's last book, The Promise of Technology in Schools: The Next Twenty Years. Fifteen years after its publication, they find little significant difference in the way K-12 schools are using technology to improve student achievement. Education Technology and the Failure of American Schools offers a broad and penetrating look at the American educational system to determine why progress is so lacking. What is found is a system that has far outlived its functionality in terms of governance, organization, and professional practices. American schools are compared to those of nations whose students regularly outperform them on international tests of achievement. The authors offer a bold approach to educational reform that will irritate many who now consider themselves educational leaders. The final chapter makes offers a new approach to education in the primary grades, one that will surprise those lobbying for more computers for those early learning years. This is a must-read for anyone concerned about American education.
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Offer clear examples of what is missing in the average school experience
Explain why teaching and school administration are not true professions
Discuss levels of failure from the federal level to the local school administration
Describe how the present system came into being
Compare educational reform efforts with those in actual professions
Explain the basic misapplication of technology in the present system
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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-1-4758-1111-7
ISBN-Online
978-1-4758-1113-1
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
215
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Preface No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
1 Fourteen Years Later: Trends and Fads in Technology Integration No access
2 K-12 and Higher-Education Uses of IT Today No access
3 Schooling: What Is the Business of Education? No access
4 How Bad Is the Failure of American Schools? No access
5 Are Failing Schools the Only Cause of Low Student Achievement? No access
6 Why Schools Fail to Integrate Technology Effectively No access
7 Professional versus Bureaucratic Approaches to Change No access
8 How Degradation of the Field of Education Impedes Reform No access
9 K-12: A New Beginning Will Require Commitment and Consensus No access
10 Using IT to Personalize Learning No access
11 Foundation for a Learning Society and a New Profession No access
12 Moving beyond Bureaucracy No access
13 What about the Early Years of Learning? No access
Epilogue: While the World Changes No access Pages 207 - 210
