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About this book
Changes to Improve Schools is a book about educational reform. Richard Garrett has spent ten years researching the U.S. K-12 system to find things in need of improvements. The book has 17 chapters that cover a wide range of topics such as the performance of American students, classroom discipline, and apprehensions younger graduates face when deciding to pursue educational fields.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Does the U.S. Have National Goals?
- Chapter 2: U.S. Students Are Not as Good as We Think
- Chapter 3: When Did Things Begin to Go Bad?
- Chapter 4: Teachers, the Vital Ingredient
- Chapter 5: 220 Precious Minutes
- Chapter 6: Discipline Issues Are a Major Problem
- Chapter 7: The Success Equation for Children
- Chapter 8: How Should Schools Be Organized?
- Chapter 9: Learning to Read
- Chapter 10: When Should Formal Education Begin?
- Chapter 11: Who’s Going to Fix It?
- Chapter 12: The Threat of Lawsuits Weighs Heavy
- Chapter 13: Labor Unions
- Chapter 14: The Massachusetts Education Miracle and the Maryland Commission
- Chapter 15: Overhead, a Constant Threat
- Chapter 16: National Impact
- Chapter 17: What Changes Must Be Made to Reform the System?
- Appendix: Introduction to Website
- About the Author