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Author Tienken, Christopher.

Title The school reform landscape : fraud, myth, and lies / Christopher H. Tienken and Donald C. Orlich.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource
Note Published in partnership with the American Association of School Administrators.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Liberty and justice for all -- The education reform king with a styrofoam crown -- A catalogue of reform fallacies -- The No Child Left Behind Act -- The path of high-risk implications for public education -- High stakes, low quality -- World-class standards that are too big to fail -- Charter schools: separate but legal -- What now? a way forward.
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Summary The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies describes this nation's policymakers awkwardly stumbling through education reforms based on highly questionable political ideology and high-stakes assessments for all children. Provided are a series of actions that use fear and very unsound research studies to eliminate the American school systems and replace them with a dual-system, which discriminates against the poor, handicapped and students with little social capital. The authors provide a series of needed actions to make A.
Subject Public schools -- United States.
School improvement programs -- United States.
Education and state -- United States.
EDUCATION -- Administration -- General.
EDUCATION -- Organizations & Institutions.
Education and state. (OCoLC)fst00902835
Public schools. (OCoLC)fst01082942
School improvement programs. (OCoLC)fst01107461
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Orlich, Donald C.
Other Form: Print version: Tienken, Christopher. School reform landscape 9781475802573 (DLC) 2012046746 (OCoLC)816511862
ISBN 1475802595 (electronic bk.)
9781475802597 (electronic bk.)
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