Both revealing and compelling, Annette Kolodny’s Failing the Future: A Dean Looks at Higher Education in the Twenty-first Century is drawn from the author’s experience as a distinguished teacher, a prize-winning scholar of American literature, a feminist thinker, and an innovative administrator at a major public university. In chapters that range from the changing structure of the American family and its impact on both curriculum and university benefits policies to recommendations for overhauling the culture of decision making on campus, this former Dean of the College of Humanities at the University of Arizona explores the present state of higher education and offers a sobering view of what lies ahead. In this volume Kolodny explains the reasons for the financial crisis in higher education today and boldly addresses the challenges that remain ignored, including rising birthrates, changing demographics both on campus and across the country, the accelerating globalization of higher education and advanced research, and the necessity for greater interdisciplinarity in undergraduate education. Moreover, while sensitive to the complex burdens placed on faculty today, Kolodny nonetheless reveals how the professoriate has allowed itself to become vulnerable to public misperceptions and to lampooning by the media. Not simply a book about current problems and future challenges, Failing the Future is rich with practical solutions and workable programs for change. Among her many insights, Kolodny offers a thorough defense of the role of tenure and outlines a new set of procedures to ensure its effective implementation; she proposes a structure for an “Antifeminist Intellectual Harassment Policy”; and she provides a checklist of family-sensitive policies universities can offer their staff, faculty, and administrators. Kolodny calls on union leaders, campus communities, policymakers, and the general public to work together in unprecedented partnerships. Her goal, as she states in a closing coda, is to initiate a revitalized conversation about public education. This book should be required reading for all those concerned with the future of higher education in this country—from college trustees to graduate students entering the professoriate, from faculty to university administrators, from officers of campus-based unions to education policymakers.
Описание: Misplaced Blame: Decades of Failing Schools, Their Children and Their Teachers examines the underlying causes of why schools fail.
Автор: Steven P. Jones Название: Blame Teachers: The Emotional Reasons for Educational Reform ISBN: 1681232189 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681232188 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 7623.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: There is a story going around about the public schools and the people who teach in them - a story about why we should blame teachers for the poor state of public schools. Why do so many people point fingers at teachers and seem to resent them so much? Blame Teachers examines why many people blame teachers for what they understand to be the poor state of schools.
Описание: Since the passing of No Child Left Behind in 2001, American schools have emphasized test scores to measure school performance. Even as teachers have fought to get rid of this detrimental trend, today the new corporate reformers, and even our own government leaders, support high-stakes testing to evaluate teachers. They also promote the privatization of our public schools by turning them into charter and online schools, bringing big profits to many corporations and blatantly ignoring the problems of poverty and underfunding in our public schools. Sadly, many corporate reformers turn a blind eye to the real problems that teachers face today: trying to teach in classrooms that are filled with an overwhelmingly high number of pregnant teens, children who cannot read beyond the third grade, and children who attend violent neighborhood schools that are dangerously underfunded and underprepared to deal with their daily heartaches. Passed On gives us an honest portrayal of what teachers and students are up against in poor, failing American schools today, and provides a much-needed front-line perspective in the current school reform debates.
Автор: Stein, Les Stein, Alex Stein, Jessica Название: Education disrupted ISBN: 1475800606 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781475800609 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 17741.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book will help public school educators understand that turnaround efforts are based on sound leadership principles - nothing more, nothing less. It also provides school leaders with the critical skills to turn around failing schools and, more importantly, prevent their schools from failing in the first place.
Автор: Gunzelmann Betsy Название: Hidden Dangers: Subtle Signs of Failing Schools ISBN: 1610485491 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781610485494 Издательство: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Рейтинг: Цена: 6336.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The Hidden Dangers in our schools have grown and intensified over the last few years. Clearly, schools do not work in a vacuum; each is affected by the much larger society, government and economy. In this new edition we will be introduced to the interplay of these facets and how they can help and in some cases hinder our schools, our teachers, and our students from thriving.
Автор: Steven P. Jones Название: Blame Teachers: The Emotional Reasons for Educational Reform ISBN: 1681232197 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781681232195 Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan) Рейтинг: Цена: 14137.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: There is a story going around about the public schools and the people who teach in them - a story about why we should blame teachers for the poor state of public schools. Why do so many people point fingers at teachers and seem to resent them so much? Blame Teachers examines why many people blame teachers for what they understand to be the poor state of schools.
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