After the education wars
Subtitle: how smart schools upend the business of reform
By: Andrea Gabor
Publisher: The New Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 373
ISBN-13: 9781620971994
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Educational change; School improvement programs; Education; Aims and objectives; School management and organization
Other titles: How smart schools upend the business of reform
Description: "In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today's reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and--contrary to popular belief--at odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well." -- Amazon.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The quiet revolution; title: Big dreams, small schools : how entrepreneurial rebels built a movement in New York City; title: Testing power : when is disruption just . . . disruptive?; title: State of reform : the not-so-quiet revolution in Massachusetts; title: No lone stars : how trust and collaboration in one Texas school district have created lasting reform; title: The hurricane and the charters : new schools unearth old ways in New Orleans; title: Conclusion : A civic action: how schools; title: and society; title: benefit from real democracy.