Bad Students, Not Bad Schools

Informationen zum Autor Robert Weissberg Zusammenfassung Americans are increasingly alarmed over our nation's educational deficiencies Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface 1 Introduction: A Nation at Risk or a Nation in Denial? 2 Bad Students, Not Bad Schools 3 Motivating Students or You Can Take a Horse to Water and Make a Dehydrated Equine Feel Better about Herself 4 Closing the Racial Gap in Academic Achievement 5 The "War" on Academic Excellence 6 The Museum of Failed Educational Reforms 7 Business-like Solutions to Academic Insufficiency 8 The Alluring Choice Solution or Why Educating Students Is Not Manufacturing Cheap Flat Screen TVs 9 Reforming Education Is the New Great Society and Why Fixing Schools May Well Subvert the Social Peace 10 Hope? Works Cited Index

Product details

• Authors: Robert Weissberg, Weissberg Robert
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2010
• EAN: 9781412813457
• ISBN: 978-1-4128-1345-7
• No. of pages: 370
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system; USA, EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General, United States of America, USA, Educational strategies & policy, Educational strategies and policy