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Making the Grade
Reinventing America's Schools
by Tony Wagner
ISBN: 0415927625
ISBN-13: 9780415927628
Format: Paperback
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Summary
Wagner, co-director of a leadership group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and a senior advisor on education to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, offers his opinions on how to improve and reinvent the American educational system. Wagner attests that the American educational system must be totally redirected-away from the curriculum first established during the industrial revolution and towards a curriculum more in line with the modern information age. Furthermore, Wagner outlines how communities, government, teachers, parents, and students can work together to reform and reinvent the American school system.
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Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Falmer Pr
Published date: 2003
Size: 6 x 8.75 inches
Weight: 0.65 pounds
Pages: 176
Publisher's Notes
Dramatically reframing the debate on education in America, Making the Grade, shows why today's test-driven reforms will fail and points the way toward a system that benefits all students.
One of America's most compelling voices for education reform and a long-time teacher, Tony Wagner argues that Bush's efforts to increase schools' "accountability" - narrowly defined as more high-stakes, multiple-choice tests - are sabotaging both teachers' and students' drive to achieve. Worse still, the tests are diverting our schools from teaching what matters most for success and happiness in adult life: good work habits, motivation, curiosity, and respect.
Should schools teach values? What role should tests play in the system? How do we motivate students?
These are the fundamental questions around which Wagner shapes a strategy for reform. These schools he calls New Village Schools, are centered on "the 4 C's": competency-based curriculum, core values, collaboration, and community.
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