Confronting Oppressive Assessments

How Parents, Educators, and Policymakers Are Rethinking Current Educational Reforms
Herausgeber: McKenna, John William; Polka, Walter S.

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Produktbeschreibung

This book is about doing what's right for public education in the United States in this age of intensive curriculum convergence, planned instructional standardization, and oppressive accountability procedures. Information is presented about why and how educators, parents, students, community members, and policy-makers have decided to protest against current state and federal educational policies and procedures. The practical experiences of parents, teachers, principals, school superintendents, school board members, and professors are analyzed in chapters of this book. Their first-hand experiences with the various components of the current reform movement are poignantly presented. Through their voices the frustrations with the serious flaws associated with this reform agenda are passionately and logically articulated. They comprehensively explain their personal and professional motivations for organizing and fomenting a rethinking in school reform implementation procedures and they advocate their "smarter approach" to school reforms in our country. The book includes key references that elucidate the need to seriously re-think the directions and strategies of contemporary schooling in order to maintain enlightened creative instruction based on exciting student-centered curriculum experiences and professional educational judgments.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. September 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 358g
• ISBN-13: 9781475826814
• ISBN-10: 1475826818
• Artikelnr.: 45062921

Autorenporträt

Edited by Walter S. Polka and John William McKenna

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface: Confronting Oppressive Assessments: How Parents,
Educators, and Policy-Makers Are Rethinking Current Educational Reforms
Walter S. Polka and John McKenna Chapter One: What Are We Really Doing to
our Children? Rethinking Federal and State Education Reform Policies Walter
S. Polka and John E. McKenna Chapter Two: Using an Industrial Age Paradigm
for Education is Not Smart, Especially in the Digital Age John E. McKenna
and Walter S. Polka Chapter Three: The Lack of Joy in Learning: Parents
Want to Know Why Children Don't Like School Anymore Douglas J. Regan and
Mary Beth Carroll Chapter Four: Why Teachers Are Frustrated Ashli Dreher
and Kathy Brown Chapter Five: High-Stakes Test Anxieties for All Children:
Parents, Teachers, and Pscyhologists Voice Concerns Laura Stewart-Beach,
Kathy Brown, and Greg Fabiano Chapter Six: Principals with Principles: The
Dilemma of Implementing Destructive Polices Charles Smilinich, Mark
Mambretti, Douglas Regan, and John McKenna Chapter Seven: Superintendents'
Perspectives: Fighting for Local Control and Justice in Education for All
Jeffrey Robert Rabey Chapter Eight: Thoughts on What to Do Next at the
Local Level John McKenna and Walter Polka Chapter Nine: A Dwindling Second
Chance: High School Dropouts and the 2014 GED® Exam Rachael J. Rossi
Chapter Ten: Everyone is Now a "Teacher of the Core"-Even Higher Education
is Converged in This Reform Movement Susan Krickovich and Donna Phillips
Chapter Eleven: Political Perspectives Regarding Changing the Current
Educational Reform Agenda: The Winds of Change are Blowing Stronger Walter
S. Polka and John E. McKenna Chapter Twelve: Why Not Create a Brighter
Future for All of Our Students by Legislative Changes to the Educational
Current Reforms? What If We Just Do It? John E. McKenna and Walter S. Polka
Appendix About the Editors About the Contributors