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This book engages a select group of scholars from across the ideological spectrum to examine particular education reform efforts of recent years that have not succeeded and offer lessons for school and system improvement that can be learned from them.
Sommario
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction-Jay P. Greene and Michael Q. McShane
Chapter 1: The Limits of Expertise-Frederick M. Hess and Paige Willey
Chapter 2: The "Failure" of Technologies to Transform Traditional Teaching in the Past Century-Larry Cuban
Chapter 3: Teacher Education: Failed Reform and a Missed Opportunity-Daniel Willingham
Chapter 4: Asking Too Much of Accountability: The Predictable Failure of No Child Left Behind-Martin West
Chapter 5: School Improvement Grants: Failures in Design and Implementation-Ashley Jochim
Chapter 6: Test-Based Teacher Evaluation-Matthew Di Carlo
Chapter 7: The Failure of Private School Vouchers and Tax Credit Scholarship-Anna Egalite
Chapter 8: No Excuses Charter Schools: the Good, the Bad, and the Over-Prescribed?-Matthew Ladner
Chapter 9: Too Big to Fail: "Big Bet" Philanthropy and Constructive Failure at the Gates Foundation-Megan E. Tompkins-Stange
Conclusion-Jay P. Green and Michael Q. McShane
Bibliography
About the Authors
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Jay P. Greene is Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Greene's current areas of research interest include school choice, culturally enriching field trips, and the effect of schools on non-cognitive and civic values. His research has appeared in academic journals such as Education Finance and Policy and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and in newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Washington Post. He is the author of Education Myths and Why America Needs School Choice.
Michael Q. McShane is Director of National Research at EdChoice and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the editor of New and Better Schools, the author of Education and Opportunity, and coeditor of Educational Entrepreneurship Today, Teacher Quality 2.0, and Common Core Meets Education Reform. McShane's commentary has been published in the Huffington Post, USA Today, and The Washington Post, and he has been featured in Teachers College Commentary, and Education Next.
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This book engages a select group of scholars from across the ideological spectrum to examine particular education reform efforts of recent years that have not succeeded and offer lessons for school and system improvement that can be learned from them.
