The National Debate Topic: 2017-2018
Subtitle: Education reform
Publisher: Grey House Publishing
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Amenia, New York
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
ISBN-13: 9781682174531
Table of contents: title: 1. The state of American education.; title: Educational states / Micah L. Issitt; title: Ask better school reform questions / Frederick M. Hess and Paige Willey; title: A look at the education crisis: tests, standards, and the future of American education / Ulrich Boser, Perpetual Baffour, and Step Vela; title: Why the charter school debate has moved beyond "better" or "worse" / Joshua Cowen; title: America's not-so-broken education system: do U.S. schools really need to be disrupted? / Jack Schneider; title: What the world can learn from the latest PISA test results / The Economist; title: Where school choice gets an A or B / Mark Silva; title: 2. Reform 2017.; title: Commercializing knowledge: reform in 2017 / Micah L. Issitt; title: Tax credits, school choice and "neovouchers": what you need to know / Kevin Welner; title: It's not what Trump's Education Department will do that should worry critics; it's what it won't do / Conor Williams; title: Dismal voucher results surprise researchers as DeVos era begins / Kevin Carey; title: Education for sale? School choice and the future of American education / Linda Darling-Hammond; title: Massachusetts charter cap holds back disadvantaged students / Sarah Cohodes and Susan M. Dynarski; title: An education leader with one big idea / Dan Currell; title: 3. In the classroom: skills, knowledge, climate.; title: The modernization of education / Micah L. Issitt; title: What we're missing in measuring who's ready for college / Mikhail Zinshteyn; title: It's time for vocational schools to get some respect / Deborah Halber; title: Forget welding: the hottest new vocational schools do digital design / Margaret Rhodes; title: A plan to teach every child computer science / Emily Deruy; title: Inside Silicon Valley's classrooms of the future / Hannah Kuchler; title: It takes a suburb: a town struggles to ease student stress / Kyle Spencer; title: 4. Equity and the achievement gap.; title: The achievement class / Micah L. Issitt; title: College calculus: what's the real value of higher education? / John Cassidy; title: Skipping class / The Economist; title: Student debt payback far worse than believed / Andrea Fuller; title: Sheila Bair's one weird trick to make her college less white / Shahien Nasiripour; title: Bernie Sanders just introduced his free college tuition plan / George Zornick; title: 10 public high school teachers explain why they're worried about Trump's pick for Education Secretary / De Elizabeth; title: The outsized role of parent contributions in elementary school finance / Emily Workman; title: 5. Education technology.; title: Hi-teach: education in the digital age / Micah L. Issitt; title: Computing in the classroom: from the "teaching machine" to the promise of twenty-first-century learning technology / Sophia Nguyen; title: Ex-FCC chair blasts efforts to change lifeline, net neutrality, privacy rules / Benjamin Herold; title: Transforming the EdTech ecosystem: a checklist for investing / Barbara Kurhsan; title: Online education pioneer boots up a jobs program for the tech industry / Tom Simonite; title: The new cheating economy / Brad Wolverton