Failing Our Kids: How We Are Ruining Our Public Schools Paperback - 2004
by Charles Ungerleider
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"Our public schools are in danger of collapse, and if they do, we will all pay the price
Healthy public schools are essential for a healthy economy and creating informed citizens. But we are neglecting our schools in a perversely malicious way: making impossible demands on them, strangling them financially, creating trivial changes for the sake of ideology, avoiding necessary changes, and just plain ignoring them.
In this forcefully argued and convincing book, education expert Charles Ungerleider makes our situation plain. Canadians have never placed a higher value on education, but if we do not do something about public schools now, we may lose the benefits that they provide and miss the opportunity to fix them.
Drawing on the latest research and using examples from across the country, Ungerleider describes what's right and what's wrong about our public schools system and provides solutions for making them a lot better. He looks at the conflict between "traditional" and "progressive" approaches to education. He argues that the public school curriculum has become bloated, fragmented, and mired in trivia. He examines the effects of the changing family and the influence on children of television, the Internet, video games, and their peers. He discusses the work of teachers and teachers' unions, the changes in public school finance and governance, and the issue of accountability. And he takes on the issue of school choice and competition, where, more than anywhere else, rhetoric prevails over reason.
"From the Hardcover edition.
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- Title Failing Our Kids: How We Are Ruining Our Public Schools
- Author Charles Ungerleider
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 320
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McClelland & Stewart, Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.
- Date March 16, 2004
- Features Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780771086823 / 0771086822
- Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.35 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
- Dewey Decimal Code 370.971
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