U.S. national debate topic, 2017-2018. Education reform /
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Amenia, New York :
Grey House Publishing,
2017.
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| Series: | Reference shelf ;
v. 89, no. 3. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The state of American education :
- Educational states / Micah L. Issitt
- Ask better school reform questions / Frederick M. Hess, Paige Willey
- A look at the education crisis: tests, standards, and the future of American education / Ulrich Boser, Perpetual Baffour, Step Vela
- Why the charter school debate has moved beyond "better" or "worse" / Joshua Cowen
- America's not-so-broken education system: do U.S. schools really need to be disrupted? / Jack Schneider
- What the world can learn from the latest PISA test results / The Economist
- Where school choice gets an A or B / Mark Silva.
- 2. Reform 2017 :
- Commercializing knowledge: reform in 2017 / Micah L. Issitt
- Tax credits, school choice and "neovouchers": what you need to know / Kevin Welner
- It's not what Trump's Education Department will do that should worry critics; it's what it won't do / Conor Williams
- Dismal voucher results surprise researchers as DeVos era begins / Kevin Carey
- Education for sale? School choice and the future of American education / Linda Darling-Hammond
- Massachusetts charter cap holds back disadvantaged students / Sarah Cohodes, Susan M. Dynarski
- An education leader with one big idea / Dan Currell.
- 3. In the classroom: skills, knowledge, climate :
- The modernization of education / Micah L. Issitt
- What we're missing in measuring who's ready for college / Mikhail Zinshteyn
- It's time for vocational schools to get some respect / Deborah Halber
- Forget welding: the hottest new vocational schools do digital design / Margaret Rhodes
- A plan to teach every child computer science / Emily Deruy
- Inside Silicon Valley's classrooms of the future / Hannah Kuchler
- It takes a suburb: a town struggles to ease student stress / Kyle Spencer.
- 4. Equity and the achievement gap :
- The achievement class / Micah L. Issitt
- College calculus: what's the real value of higher education? / John Cassidy
- Skipping class / The Economist
- Student debt payback far worse than believed / Andrea Fuller
- Sheila Bair's one weird trick to make her college less white / Shahien Nasiripour
- Bernie Sanders just introduced his free college tuition plan / George Zornick
- 10 public high school teachers explain why they're worried about Trump's pick for Education Secretary / De Elizabeth
- The outsized role of parent contributions in elementary school finance / Emily Workman.
- 5. Education technology :
- Hi-teach: education in the digital age / Micah L. Issitt
- Computing in the classroom: from the "teaching machine" to the promise of twenty-first-century learning technology / Sophia Nguyen
- Ex-FCC chair blasts efforts to change lifeline, net neutrality, privacy rules / Benjamin Herold
- Transforming the EdTech ecosystem: a checklist for investing / Barbara Kurhsan
- Online education pioneer boots up a jobs program for the tech industry / Tom Simonite
- The new cheating economy / Brad Wolverton.