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Title Trapped in mediocrity : why our schools aren't world-class and what we can do about it / Katherine Baird.

Publication Info. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, [2012]
©2012

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 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  370.973 BAIRD    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  370.973 B163T    Check Shelf
Description pages cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A historical and comparative perspective on the United State's educational system -- Just how low are our educational standards? -- The consequences of low expectations on student effort -- Low standards compromise higher education's mission -- Reduced productivity and increased wage disparities -- Low standards harm those we think are helped -- The tyranny of too many voices or "too many cooks spoil the broth" -- Exit, voice and the "something for everyone" curriculum -- Soft America meets hard America: the perceived high costs and low benefits of high expectations -- Getting from here to there.
Subject Public schools -- United States.
Education -- Standards -- United States.
Educational change -- United States.
Education -- Standards. (OCoLC)fst00902789
Educational change. (OCoLC)fst00903371
Public schools. (OCoLC)fst01082942
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Added Author Baird, Katherine, 1958-
ISBN 9781442215474 cloth alkaline paper
144221547X cloth alkaline paper
9781442215498 electronic
1442215496 electronic
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