The dark side of school reform
Subtitle: teaching in the space between reality and utopia
By: Jeffrey S. Brooks.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 199
Subjects: Teaching; Educational change
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The school day is fast and the school year is faster!; title: Add duties, add responsibility, add rigmarole; title: Teaching as an everyday ambiguity : who is doing what, where, when, why and how?; title: The "old guard" versus the "new way"; title: Snake charmers in the star chamber; title: Strangers in a strange school : isolated teachers, siloed departments, fractured faculty; title: There's no "I" in the word "school"; title: Distraction + disorientation = disaffection; title: Leading with smoke and mirrors : of misty missions, vague values, and floating philosophies; title: Coda or refrain? :  reforming again, and again, and again, and again; title: Teaching in the space between reality and utopia.