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  title info:
    title: Big lies of school reform
    sub title: finding better solutions for the future of public education
  name:
    name part: Gorski, Paul.
  name:
    name part: Zenkov, Kristien.
  name:
    name part: Ebook Library
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2014
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (342 pages)
  abstract: "The Big Lies of School Reform provides a critical interruption to the ongoing policy conversations taking place around public education in the United States today. By analyzing the discourse employed by politicians, lobbyists, think tanks, and special interest groups, the authors uncover the hidden assumptions that often underlie popular statements about school reform, and demonstrate how misinformation or half-truths have been used to reshape public education in ways that serve the interests of private enterprise. Through a thoughtful series of essays that each identify one "lie" about popular school reform initiatives, the authors of this collection reveal the concrete impacts of these falsehoods--from directing funding to shaping curricula to defining student achievement. Luminary contributors including Deborah Meier, Jeannie Oakes, Gloria Ladson-Billings, and Jim Cummins explain how reform movements affect teachers and administrators, and how widely-accepted mistruths can hinder genuine efforts to keep public education equitable, effective, and above all, truly public. Topics covered include common core standards, tracking, alternative paths to licensure, and the disempowerment of teachers' unions. Beyond critically examining the popular rhetoric, the contributors offer visions for improving educational access, opportunity, and outcomes for all students and educators, and for protecting public education as a common good."--
  table of contents: The pedagogy of poverty : the big lies about poor children / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Improving education and the mistaken focus on "raising test scores" and "closing the achievement gap" / Rochelle Gutiérrez -- The common core : engine of inequity / Anthony Cody -- Direct instruction : effectively teaching low-level skills / Curt Dudley-Marling -- Detangling the lies about English-only and bilingual education / Jim Cummins -- The test does not know best : on collecting good evidence for student learning / Deborah Meier -- Lying about teachers and their training / Kristien Zenkov -- Debunking the lie that teachers' unions are bad for kids / Katy Swalwell -- The truth about tracking / Lauren Anderson and Jeannie Oakes -- Poverty, economic inequality, and the impossible promise of school reform / Paul C. Gorski -- Seeing students as humans, not products : why public schools should not be run like private businesses / Wayne Au -- The trouble with federal turnaround policies and their impact on low-scoring schools / Michelle Renée and Tina Trujillo.
  note: edited by Paul C. Gorski and Kristien Zenkov.
  note: Electronic resource.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: School improvement programs
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Public schools
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Aims and objectives
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Standards
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Educational accountability
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Educational change
    topic: Government policy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Aims and objectives
  subject:
    topic: Education
    topic: Standards
  subject:
    topic: Educational accountability
  subject:
    topic: Educational change
    topic: Government policy
  subject:
    topic: Public schools
  subject:
    topic: School improvement programs
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: LB2822.82 .B595 2014eb
  classification: 371.2 23
  identifier: 9780415707930 (hardback)
  identifier: 0415707935 (hardback)
  identifier: 9780415707947 (pbk.)
  identifier: 0415707943 (pbk.)
  identifier: 9781315886367 (ebk.)
  identifier: 9781134607419 (ebk.)
  identifier: 581828 MIL
  identifier: https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/tamucs/detail.action
  record info:
    record content source: IDEBK
    record creation date: 140321
    record change date: 20250816223210.0
    record identifier: in00003482555
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng