A Legacy of Learning - Your Stake in Standards and New Kinds of Public Schools

Informationen zum Autor David T. Kearns is chairman emeritus of New American Schools. He is former chairman and CEO of the Xerox Company. James Harvey is a senior fellow at the Center on Reinventing Public Education, Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs, University of Washington. He is also a Seattle-based consultant. A former appointee in the Carter administration, he helped develop the landmark report A Nation at Risk for the National Commission on Excellence in Education. George Bush is former President of the United States. Klappentext What's wrong with America's schools? Why can't we fix them? How did we wind up with dropout rates of 25% and graduates who can barely read and write? Why does the US spend twice as much on education as the international average and wind up near the bottom of the barrel in global comparisons of student achievement? Why do we lag behind nations such as South Korea, Hungary, and Singapore? Answers to these questions lie at the heart of this volume. Zusammenfassung Why do American schools have a drop-out rate of 25 per cent and why do its universities have graduates who can barely read and write? This work provides a provocative analysis of what has gone wrong in the American educational system! and what needs to be done to get it back on track.

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• Autori: David T. Kearns, J Harvey, James Harvey, D Kearns, David T. Kearns, David T./ Harvey Kearns
• Editore: Brookings Institution Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9780815748946
• ISBN: 978-0-8157-4894-6
• Pagine: 226
• Dimensioni: 159 mm x 235 mm x 25 mm
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Diritto > Diritto internazionale, diritto degli stranieri; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Pedagogia > Istruzione