The Misdirection of Education Policy
eBook - PDF

The Misdirection of Education Policy

Raising Questions about School Reform

  1. 165 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Misdirection of Education Policy

Raising Questions about School Reform

About this book

The Misdirection of Education Policy: Raising Questions about School Reform proposes critically important questions about the wisdom of American public education policy and reform initiatives. Laying out the particulars of three policy strands—creation of STEM curricula/schools, expansion of charter schools/privatizing, and teacher accountability/testing tied to job security— The Misdirection of Education Policy exposes complications, contradictions, and deliberate deceptions in these supposed solutions to very real issues in education.

Dafoe theorizes that obstacles facing American education are far more complicated than policy makers suggest or consider. The Misdirection of Education Policy poses the question of whether it is practical to offer an education that is not merely practical in its ends, opening doors far beyond career readiness and filling employers' job slots.

The approach suggested here is designed to offer an arterial that allows students and teachers to do more than simply prepare for STEM careers; it advocates for an education that helps people navigate life by becoming explorers who remain curious and analytical about their world.

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Information

Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9798216291589
Edition
1
Topic
Education
Subtopic
Education Curricula

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Foreword
  3. Preface
  4. Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter One: We’re Funding the Left Side of Your Brain
  7. Chapter Two: “If I Didn’t Write in This Journal . . . ”
  8. Chapter Three: Why Aren’t Schools Run Like Businesses?
  9. Chapter Four: Faulty Logic, Public Discourse
  10. Chapter Five: Tales Told by Idiots Signifying Nothing
  11. Chapter Six: Why Teacher Evaluations Tied to Tests Don’t Work
  12. Chapter Seven: What Hurt
  13. Chapter Eight: Public Education Paradigm Shifts Menu
  14. Chapter Nine: Common Core Head First
  15. Chapter Ten: Why Students Should Read Tolstoy and Faulkner
  16. Chapter Eleven: Consequences of Exclusionary Parameters
  17. Chapter Twelve: Education without the Humanities
  18. Chapter Thirteen: What You Don’t Know
  19. Chapter Fourteen: Master Teachers in Every Classroom
  20. Chapter Fifteen: Welcome the Subversive
  21. Chapter Sixteen: Insights from the Humanities
  22. Chapter Seventeen: Allow Every Teacher to Engineer Reform
  23. Chapter Eighteen: The Waste Land Revisited
  24. Chapter Nineteen: Creating Meaningful, Lasting Reform
  25. Chapter Twenty: Convergence of Poetry/Science
  26. Chapter Twenty-one: Raining Poets
  27. Chapter Twenty-two: The Answer Is the Question
  28. Appendix A
  29. Bibliography
  30. About the Author of the Foreword
  31. About the Author