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Changing the Course of Failure
How Schools and Parents Can Help Low-Achieving Students
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eBook - ePub
Changing the Course of Failure
How Schools and Parents Can Help Low-Achieving Students
About this book
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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Yes, you can access Changing the Course of Failure by Sandra Stotsky in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Education & Education Theory & Practice. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- The Current Education Problem
- The Current Political Context for the Education of Low-Achieving Students
- Early U.S. Educational History
- Fragmentation of the English Curriculum in the Twentieth Century
- Evolving Explanations of Low Achievement
- Who Should Teach Low-Achieving Students—and All the Others?
- Testing Concerns
- What Might Desperate Education Policy Makers Do?
- What Can State Legislatures with a Spine Do?
- Policies to Reduce Adolescent Underachievement or High School Dropouts
- About the Author