Will Standards Save Public Education?

Informationen zum Autor Deborah Meier is the author of The Power of Their Ideas. She is principal of the Mission Hill School in Boston! Massachusetts. Klappentext Somewhere. . . there is a place of sanity where education is intense and substantive. . . . It's in that place that Deborah Meier has been working all these years. Her voice conveys a life of struggle in the front lines-victories and losses! hopes and disappointments. . . . It's a voice our nation needs to hear. --Jonathan Kozol! from the Foreword Acclaimed educator Deborah Meier offers a fresh take on standardized tests. While others have criticized standards and what they measure! Meier rejects the very idea of a centralized authority that dictates how and what teachers teach. Standardization! she argues! prevents citizens-including teachers-from emerging as thoughtful! responsible adults! seriously engaged with shaping their own schools! classrooms! and communities. As a result! young people can't learn from them how to be thoughtful! responsible adults and good citizens! the primary goal of public education in a democracy. The New Democracy Forum is a series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. "A civic treasure. . . . A truly good idea! carried out with intelligence and panache." --Robert Pinsky Zusammenfassung Somewhere. . . there is a place of sanity where education is intense and substantive. . . . It's in that place that Deborah Meier has been working all these years. Her voice conveys a life of struggle in the front lines-victories and losses! hopes and disappointments. . . . It's a voice our nation needs to hear. --Jonathan Kozol! from the Foreword Acclaimed educator Deborah Meier offers a fresh take on standardized tests. While others have criticized standards and what they measure! Meier rejects the very idea of a centralized authority that dictates how and what teachers teach. Standardization! she argues! prevents citizens-including teachers-from emerging as thoughtful! responsible adults! seriously engaged with shaping their own schools! classrooms! and communities. As a result! young people can't learn from them how to be thoughtful! responsible adults and good citizens! the primary goal of public education in a democracy. The New Democracy Forum is a series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns. "A civic treasure. . . . A truly good idea! carried out with intelligence and panache." --Robert Pinsky ...

Product details

• Authors: Joshua Cohen, d kozol Meier, Deborah Meier
• Assisted by: Joshua Cohen (Editor), Joel Rogers (Editor)
• Publisher: BEACON PRESS
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.04.2000
• EAN: 9780807004418
• ISBN: 978-0-8070-0441-8
• No. of pages: 106
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 203 mm x 8 mm
• Series: New Democracy Forum; New Democracy Forum
• Subjects: Education and learning; Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system