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Author
Publisher
Encounter Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Predicts that the American education system is going to experience a bubble burst, just as the housing market did, and offers advice and solutions for parents, educators, and taxpayers on alternatives to the failing school system.
Author
Publisher
WND Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The authors discuss what they see as a plan to socialize the United States by knowingly and willingly dumbing down the population, one aspect of which is the Obama administration's plan to nationalize K-12 schooling with Common Core.
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone agrees that we should graduate as many students as possible, as prepared for colleges and jobs as possible. We all want improved STEM and computer literacy. We're united in our belief that racial testing gaps need to be closed to create more opportunities for everyone. But there are billions of dollars spent every year to get Americans to give up on these shared goals. Why? Race to the Bottom is the first comprehensive expose of the way...
Author
Publisher
[Sharon Taylor-Harris]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Raising Taylor, Finding Superwoman: The Difficult Choices Many Parents Find Hard to Make is about a single mother raising her daughter in today's competitive world. The Difficult Choices Many Parents Find Hard to Make does much more than that. It's an inspiring story for all parents and children to read and would enjoy.
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Language
English
Description
Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
10) State accountability rating systems: a review of school report cards as indicators of school quality
Author
Publisher
National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
A core premise of state school report cards is that publicizing information about how well schools and districts meet specified goals will incentivize school improvement. However, for report card rating systems to be potentially beneficial as a school improvement policy instrument, they must provide fair and valid indicators of school performance.
Author
Publisher
National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
This brief investigates whether closing schools and transferring students for the purpose of remedying low performance is an option educational decision makers should pursue. The logic of closing schools in response to low student performance goes like this: By closing low-performing schools and sending students to better-performing ones, student achievement will improve. The threat of closure may motivate low-performing schools (and their districts)...
Author
Publisher
National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
For decades, politicians have struggled to make educational opportunity more widely avail able and less tied to where a child's parents can afford to live. The reviewed Bellwether Education Partners' recent report attempts to examine the availability of low-income rental units in school districts to understand whether districts in the largest 200 metropolitan areas are accessible to families in poverty. While the report's focus on the intersection...
13) Should the children pray?: a historical, judicial, and political examination of public school prayer
Author
Publisher
Markham Press Fund of Baylor University Press
Pub. Date
©1989
Language
English
Author
Publisher
National Education Policy Center
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Advocates for increased privatization of public schools have long contended that private schools could provide equal or better outcomes at lesser costs. To bolster that argument, this EdChoice report asserts that voucher and voucher-like (tax credit scholarship and education savings account) programs have saved state and local treasuries some $12.4 to $28.3 billion dollars as student "switchers" use those programs to leave public schools and enter...
Author
Series
Publisher
Cavendish Square
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Where to draw the line between church and state in everything from laws and courtrooms to public schools and foreign affairs has been a point of contention throughout American history, a debate between those who believe in a complete separation and those who argue that religion was important to the Founding Fathers and has therefore always been an important part of American culture. This book dives into the foundational documents of the United States,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"An essential book for parents to help their children get the education they need to live happy, productive lives from The New York Times bestselling author of The Element and Creative Schools. Parents everywhere are deeply concerned about the education of their children, especially now, when education has become a minefield of politics and controversy. One of the world's most influential educators, Robinson has had countless conversations with parents...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Language
English
Description
"A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal child care, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose students consistently outscore Americans...
Author
Publisher
The New Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During his four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on topics including America's obsession with standardized testing, the low standards of many teacher-training institutions, how corporate greed created an epidemic of attention deficit disorder, and Michelle...