Misguided Education Reform - Bailey, Nancy E.

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Résumé :
Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America&rsquo...

Biographie:
Nancy E. Bailey, Ph.D. taught students with a wide range of beautiful differences in special education for many years. She can be found advocating for democratic public schools on her blog Nancy Bailey's Education Website at www.nancyebailey.com. She is the author of the 2013 Misguided Education reform: Debating the Impact on Students....

Sommaire:
s public school students. Early childhood education, testing, reading, special education, discipline, loss of the arts, and school facilities, are all areas experiencing reform in the wrong direction....

Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students, alone, is worth the price of the book. The author clearly substantiates the nonsense, abuses and frauds associated with the high-stakes testing movement. The discussion about the Common Core State Standards clearly illustrates how non K-12 individuals devised the core to belittle teachers and the public schools. The author notes that no formative evaluation has ever been part of any of the testing movements. And, then notes the total lack of pilot testing on the current vogue of achievement tests. This is must read chapter by all educational policy makers. -- Donald C. Orlich, professor emeritus, Washington State University; coauthor Teaching Strategies: A Guide to Effective Instruction Misguided Education Reform provides a thoughtful and accessible analysis of challenges that ought to be at the very heart of our conversations about educational reform today. Before we can improve what we do, we need to work together to reject interested messages that are designed to confuse and distract, saturating communication channels with sound-bites about teachers, counselors, and students that make it more difficult for us to see, let alone understand, the forces transforming our schools. I applaud the efforts here to unpack and clarify the dangers manifest in the many ways we are criminalizing our students. -- Bill Lyons, professor and director for conflict management, political science, University of Akron; coauthor Punishing Schools: Fear and Citizenship in American Public Education This book reveals the many aspects outside of school that affect student achievement, including an almost unprecedented recognition of the well documented consequences of lead poisoning on children's learning and behavior. Knowledge of the consequences of lead poisoning have been well documented in the public health community for decades but few educators have shown an awareness of dealing with those consequences among their students. -- Michael T. Martin, research analyst for the Arizona School Boards Association (ASBA), author of the ASBA Online Report: A Strange Ignorance: The Role of Lead Poisoning in Failing Schools Nancy Bailey raises questions about school reform everyone should be asking. -- Julia Wilkins, research associate, Clemson University, National Dropout Prevention Center for Students with Disabilities; author Group Activities to Include Students With Special Needs: Developing Social Interactive Skills The chapter concerning public school facilities presents a very powerful argument - and in my view one that is sustained by facts. This is certainly a story that needs telling. -- Alex Molnar, research professor, publications director, National Education Policy Center, University of Colorado; author of numerous books and articles on social and educational policy and practice