TY - BOOK AU - Dueck,Jim TI - Education's flashpoints: upside down or set-up to fail SN - 9781475813166 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - LB 2822.8 .D83 2015 PY - 2015///] CY - Lanham, Maryland PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - School improvement programs KW - Education and state N1 - 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 ER -