Education's flashpoints : upside down or set-up to fail / Jim Dueck.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2015]Copyright date: 2015Description: xv, 252 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781475813166 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1475813163 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781475813173 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1475813171 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • LB 2822.8 .D83 2015
Contents:
A blissful past disrupted -- "Holster" your anger -- Accountability: investment or expense? -- Class size: working or learning condition? -- Paying teachers for the wrong things -- Students are more accountable than educators -- Trust or accountability -- Teacher gender and fairness to boys -- Why is tenure such a villain? -- "Continuous pass" and "all pass" are unwelcome twins -- Democratizing education -- Striking is wrongheaded -- School boards misplaced priorities -- Coaches should not evaluate -- What gets measured gets taught -- The unfairness of prolonged summer vacations -- The pain of the twelve month window -- Measuring leadership -- Going from upside-down to right-way up -- References.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-252).

A blissful past disrupted -- "Holster" your anger -- Accountability: investment or expense? -- Class size: working or learning condition? -- Paying teachers for the wrong things -- Students are more accountable than educators -- Trust or accountability -- Teacher gender and fairness to boys -- Why is tenure such a villain? -- "Continuous pass" and "all pass" are unwelcome twins -- Democratizing education -- Striking is wrongheaded -- School boards misplaced priorities -- Coaches should not evaluate -- What gets measured gets taught -- The unfairness of prolonged summer vacations -- The pain of the twelve month window -- Measuring leadership -- Going from upside-down to right-way up -- References.

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