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"The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers. . . . After the Education Wars helps us to see a better way forward."
--Cathy N. Davidson, The New York Times Book Review"After the Education Wars is an important book that points the way to genuine reform."
--Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error and The Death and Life of the Great American School System
A bestselling business journalist critiques the top-down approach of popular education reforms and profiles the unexpected success of schools embracing a nimbler, more democratic entrepreneurialism
In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today's reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and--contrary to popular belief--at odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well.
These rich, detailed stories of real reform in action illustrate how enduring change must be deeply collaborative and relentlessly focused on improvement from the grass roots up--lessons also learned from both the open-source software and quality movements. The good news is that solutions born of this philosophy are all around us: from Brockton, Massachusetts, where the state's once-failing largest high school now sends most graduates to college, to Leander, Texas, a large district where school improvement, spurred by the ideas of quality guru W. Edwards Deming, has become a way of life.
A welcome exception to the doom-and-gloom canon of education reform, After the Education Wars makes clear that what's needed is not more grand ideas, but practical and informed ways to grow the best ones that are already transforming schools.
Author
Andrea Gabor
Book Format
Hardcover
Publisher
New Press
Published
June 2018
Weight
696g
Dimensions
166 x 237 x 39 mm
ISBN
9781620971994
ISBN-10
1620971992
Eden Code
4884627
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Author/Creator: Andrea Gabor
ISBN: 9781620971994
Publisher: New Press
Release Date: June 2018
Weight: 696g
Dimensions: 166 x 237 x 39 mm
Eden Code: 4884627