Matthew Lynch

Understanding Key Education Issues

How We Got Here and Where We Go From Here

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This accessible book offers research-based insights into six key educational trends and issues that are impacting the K-12 learning today: year-round schooling, assessments, educating minorities, anti-intellectualism, issues of social promotion and retention, and school design.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 381g
• ISBN-13: 9781138285675
• ISBN-10: 1138285676
• Artikelnr.: 57041510

Autorenporträt

Matthew Lynch is an award-winning writer, activist, and president of Lynch Consulting Group. Formerly, he was the Dean of the School of Education, Psychology, and Interdisciplinary Studies and an Associate Professor of Education at Virginia Union University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Meet the Author
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter 1: How Did We Get Here, and What's Next?
Chapter 2: Year-Round Schooling: The Unexpected Solution to America's
Education Woes?
Chapter 3: Examining the Present and Future of K-12 Assessments
Chapter 4: Black Boys in Crisis: What Can We Do?
Chapter 5: Combating Anti-intellectualism and Academic Disengagement
Chapter 6: Responding to Social Promotion and Retention
Chapter 7: Rethinking School Design for Better Learning Outcomes
References
Index