Addicted to reform : a 12-step program to rescue public education

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Addicted to reform : a 12-step program to rescue public education

Title remainder

a 12-step program to rescue public education

Statement of responsibility

John Merrow

Title variation

Addicted to reform

Title variation remainder

a twelve-step program to rescue public education

Creator

• Merrow, John

Author

• Merrow, John

Subject

• Education -- Aims and objectives
• Education -- Aims and objectives -- United States
• Educational change
• EDUCATION / Educational Policy & Reform / General
• Public schools -- Evaluation
• Public schools -- United States -- Evaluation
• United States
• Educational change -- United States
• EDUCATION / Philosophy & Social Aspects

Language

eng

Summary

"The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During his four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on topics including America's obsession with standardized testing, the low standards of many teacher-training institutions, how corporate greed created an epidemic of attention deficit disorder, and Michelle Rhee's indifference to cheating in Washington, D.C. Along the way, he taught in high school, a historically black college, and a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on American public education into a "twelve-step" approach to fixing a K-12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: schools that are inappropriate for the twenty-first century. Covering topics from how to turn digital natives into digital citizens to why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one, the twelve smart chapters in this book-including "Measure What Matters," "Ask the Right Question," and "Change Teaching"-form an astute and urgent blueprint for offering a quality education to every American child"--

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Dewey number

371.010973

Index

index present

LC call number

LA217.2

LC item number

.M47 2017

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography