Big lies of school reform : finding better solutions for the future of public education /
"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 h...
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2014.
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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.