Description |
1 online resource (xix, 211 pages) |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-211). |
Note |
Online resource; title from e-book title screen (EBL platform, viewed March 6, 2015). |
Contents |
Sham one: Desegregation destroyed our schools -- Sham two: Testing answers everything -- Sham three: Reading is the basis of all learning -- Sham four: Teaching means not worrying about students learning -- Sham five: Public schools are too wasteful -- Sham six: Private is better -- Sham seven: Shopping is the answer -- Sham eight: Democracy ruins schools -- Sham nine: Justice has no place in education -- Sham ten: It's all about the children. |
Summary |
"Written by a parent and school board member, who first embraced many of the ideas of the modern school reform movement, Schoolhouse Shams lays bare much of the mythology and misinformation that underpin many of the failed school reform policies of the last decade. Many of the top strategies of the highly publicized school reform movement already have been tried out in St. Louis with disastrous results. Along with demonstrating the failure of school reform prescriptions to improve education, the experience of St. Louis demonstrates that the ideological premise of the reform movement, that a focus on providing opportunities for private profit-taking will necessarily improve schools, is both wrong and conflicts with the ideals of democracy, accountability, and justice."--Provided by publisher. |
Subject |
Educational change -- United States.
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School improvement programs -- United States.
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Education -- United States -- Evaluation.
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EDUCATION -- Decision-Making & Problem Solving.
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Education -- Evaluation. (OCoLC)fst00902624
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Educational change. (OCoLC)fst00903371
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School improvement programs. (OCoLC)fst01107461
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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Other Form: |
Print version: Downs, Peter, 1958- Schoolhouse shams 9781610488334 (DLC) 2012039574 (OCoLC)811598027 |
ISBN |
1610488350 (electronic bk.) |
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9781610488358 (electronic bk.) |
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