The big lies of school reform : finding better solutions for the future of public education /
Gorski, Paul,editor.
Zenkov, Kristien,editor.
New York : Routledge,
2014.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The pedagogy of poverty : the big lies about poor children / Gloria Ladson-Billings -- Improving education and the mistaken focus on "raising test scores" and "closing the achievement gap" / Rochelle Gutiérrez -- The common core : engine of inequity / Anthony Cody -- Direct instruction : effectively teaching low-level skills / Curt Dudley-Marling -- Detangling the lies about English-only and bilingual education / Jim Cummins -- The test does not know best : on collecting good evidence for student learning / Deborah Meier -- Lying about teachers and their training / Kristien Zenkov -- Debunking the lie that teachers' unions are bad for kids / Katy Swalwell -- The truth about tracking / Lauren Anderson and Jeannie Oakes -- Poverty, economic inequality, and the impossible promise of school reform / Paul C. Gorski -- Seeing students as humans, not products : why public schools should not be run like private businesses / Wayne Au -- The trouble with federal turnaround policies and their impact on low-scoring schools / Michelle Renée and Tina Trujillo.
School improvement programs
Public schools
Education
Education
Educational accountability
Educational change