Changing the Course of Failure
How Schools and Parents Can Help Low-Achieving Students
1st Edition
Published on 18. May 2018
130 pages
979-8-216-29592-1 (ISBN)
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The basic purpose of this book is to help policy makers at all levels of government understand that (1) widespread adolescent underachievement is not susceptible to solution by educational interventions no matter how much money is allocated to public education; and (2) there are unidentified educational and civic costs to focusing on low achievement and to expecting public institutions of education (for K-12 and college) to solve a growing social problem. Many policy makers seem to think that teachers/schools are the primary cause of low achievement. Educational institutions still cannot solve a non-education-caused problem and haven't done so for over fifty years despite all the public and private money that has been allocated. The book concludes with suggested policies for addressing the damage to public education from "gap-closing" standards and with suggested areas for policy making in order to change the current course of failure for many low-achieving students.
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Changing the Course of Failure
How Schools and Parents Can Help Low-Achieving Students
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05/2018
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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Sandra Stotsky is professor of education emerita, University of Arkansas, and was Senior Associate Commissioner at the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education from 1999-2003. She has authored several books and many reports and articles on the school curriculum, K-12 standards, teacher training, and teacher licensing tests.
Content
Preface
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. The Current Education Problem
Chapter 2. The Political Context for the Education of Low-Achieving Students
Chapter 3. Highlights of Early U.S. Educational History
Chapter 4. Fragmentation of the English Curriculum in the 20th Century
Chapter 5. Evolving Explanations of Low Achievement; How Well Education Programs and Strategies Have Addressed It
Chapter 6. Who Should Teach Low-Achieving Students-and All the Others?
Chapter 7. Testing Concerns
Chapter 8. What Might Desperate Policy Makers Do?
Chapter 9. What Could State Legislatures with a Spine Do?
Chapter 10. Policies to Reduce Adolescent Under-Achievement or High School Drop-Outs
About the Author
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. The Current Education Problem
Chapter 2. The Political Context for the Education of Low-Achieving Students
Chapter 3. Highlights of Early U.S. Educational History
Chapter 4. Fragmentation of the English Curriculum in the 20th Century
Chapter 5. Evolving Explanations of Low Achievement; How Well Education Programs and Strategies Have Addressed It
Chapter 6. Who Should Teach Low-Achieving Students-and All the Others?
Chapter 7. Testing Concerns
Chapter 8. What Might Desperate Policy Makers Do?
Chapter 9. What Could State Legislatures with a Spine Do?
Chapter 10. Policies to Reduce Adolescent Under-Achievement or High School Drop-Outs
About the Author
