Education Is Upside-Down
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Education Is Upside-Down

Reframing Reform to Focus on the Right Problems

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eBook - ePub

Education Is Upside-Down

Reframing Reform to Focus on the Right Problems

About this book

Education Is Upside Down cuts through adjustments being made at technical levels of educational practice and accountability, challenging ideals and philosophies that have powered American Education for most of the last century. This book explains how and why long-standing approaches generate flawed instructional practices, flawed systemic reform efforts, and a fundamental misalignment between the educational institution and the society it is missioned to serve. Education Is Upside Down urges readers wishing to improve American Education to more carefully consider the institution's central mission, challenge long-accepted truths of practice, and question current reform efforts and actions. In full, Education Is Upside Down resists the practitioner-vs.-reformer blame game, seeking ultimately to carefully untangle—not tighten by yanking on any single strand—the long-complicated knot of American Education.

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Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Preface
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. Of Mismatches and Missions
  5. How to Use a Funnel
  6. The Funnel Tips: A Brief Annotated History
  7. A Meaningless Engagement
  8. Building Skyscrapers on Sand
  9. How (Schools Should Help) Children Succeed
  10. What Gets Measured Gets Done (. . . But Won’t Necessarily Change Anything)
  11. Outside the Box, But Standing Still
  12. Too Scattered to Matter
  13. Righting the Funnel: Issues to Solve, Actions to Take
  14. Funnel of the Future
  15. An Awesome Responsibility
  16. Bibliography
  17. About the Author