The Educational Morass: Overcoming the Stalemate in American Education
Autor Myron Liebermanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 20 aug 2007
Public education is a highly decentralized public service, buffeted by national, state, and local interests and reported by media that are not up to the task of describing the situation realistically. Despite these negative aspects, Myron Lieberman contends that major reforms are possible, but require different leaders, strategies, and tactics.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781578866236
ISBN-10: 1578866235
Pagini: 316
Dimensiuni: 148 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția R&L Education
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 1578866235
Pagini: 316
Dimensiuni: 148 x 228 x 22 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția R&L Education
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Cuprins
Part 1 Conventional Reforms Reconsidered
Chapter 2 The Achievement Gap and Other Perennials
Chapter 3 Charter Schools
Chapter 4 Educational Research
Chapter 5 Teacher Education and Certification
Part 6 The Real Cost of Teacher Education
Part 7 Teacher Representation: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 8 The Impact of Collective Bargaining in Public Education
Chapter 9 Union Power or School Board Weakness?
Chapter 10 Individual Representation: Back to the Future?
Part 11 School Choice
Chapter 12 The Triumph of the Equalitarians
Chapter 13 The Strategy and Tactics of School Choice
Part 14 Education's Information System
Chapter 15 Education in the Media
Chapter 16 Credence Goods and the Accountability Gap
Part 17 Appendix: The Public School Establishment
Chapter 2 The Achievement Gap and Other Perennials
Chapter 3 Charter Schools
Chapter 4 Educational Research
Chapter 5 Teacher Education and Certification
Part 6 The Real Cost of Teacher Education
Part 7 Teacher Representation: Past, Present, and Future
Chapter 8 The Impact of Collective Bargaining in Public Education
Chapter 9 Union Power or School Board Weakness?
Chapter 10 Individual Representation: Back to the Future?
Part 11 School Choice
Chapter 12 The Triumph of the Equalitarians
Chapter 13 The Strategy and Tactics of School Choice
Part 14 Education's Information System
Chapter 15 Education in the Media
Chapter 16 Credence Goods and the Accountability Gap
Part 17 Appendix: The Public School Establishment
Recenzii
Readers of Myron Lieberman's prose are likely to discover a writing style that is direct, candid, and occasionally off-putting. He does not try to soften his message or avoid blunt criticism of the leading conservative public intellectuals on education issues. In short, Myron Lieberman writes his mind just as I've heard him speak it many times. That's one of the reasons... that his messages are usually clear and unambiguous, and that's why Dr. Lieberman stands as good a chance as anyone... to set in motion some of the reforms American K-12 education so badly needs.
Perhaps no one has the lengthy, in-depth and varied experience with public education of Myron Lieberman. His writing is pertinent, perceptive, provocative, persuasive and eminently readable. His unmatched experiences with, and knowledge of, teacher unions merits particular attention to that section of this volume. Some of his prior books were selected as outstanding education books in the years published. The Education Morass merits similar recognition.
No one demolishes 'groupthink' about K-12 reform proposals better than Myron Lieberman. This latest, much-needed assault on the false claims and assumptions that pervade much of the debate and research agenda of established K-12 education interests is a must-read.
Lieberman cuts through myths, wishful thinking, and fuzzy thinking about public education in general and school choice in particular. His critiques of teacher unions, school boards, and many would-be reformers are equally sharp. But he points a way out of the morass: an alliance between reformers who know that educational innovation requires free markets and those whose main interest is equalizing educational opportunity.
The Educational Morass is a great book [that] gets to the root cause of why efforts to reform or replace public education are not successful and will not be in the absence of basic changes in the goals, strategies, and tactics of supporters of education reform. Dr. Lieberman clearly shows that education is a morass because several key groups have veto power over educational reform, and no interest group or coalition of interest groups controls the factors essential to effectuate a major educational reform. Lieberman's vision is a three-sector industry: public schools, nonpublic schools, and for-profit schools in a competitive education industry. His book shows that collective bargaining in public education violates the basic norms for determining public policy, and as a result, is heavily biased in favor of the status quo.
When historians look back on the reform era, Myron Lieberman will stand alone as a voice in the wilderness. The thoroughness of his research, the clarity of his writing, and the objectiveness of his reasoning in The Educational Morass show why he is one of the true intellectual champions of American education. It takes courage to tell the emperor he wears no clothes.
Once again, Myron Lieberman has written a book that asks tough questions and gives even tougher answers. School reform advocates as well as defenders of traditional public education will find a lot of the analysis in this book uncomfortable.
Mike Lieberman is one of the most deeply knowledgeable people in our country about the workings of education today. He analyzes that knowledge from a position of independence. He is a stubborn and fearless critic of the massive follies, both right and left, both Democrat and Republican, that plague us. His work is a spur to reform.
Leaving no ox un-gored, Myron Lieberman has written a terrific-but unsettling-book on the sad state of American education. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to know why none of our reforms du jour ever work, and to understand the heavy-lifting that must be done to get us out of our public schooling quagmire.
Illuminating...look at obstacles (notably chapters on hidden costs and education writers)...
Lieberman's fact-filled, right-handed punches land solidly, entertainingly, time and again.
This book is wonderfully unpredictable. Lieberman, having served as a union organizer, school board negotiator, schoolteacher, lobbyist, and university professor, is able to present key issues in K-12 education from perspectives that most have never considered....Recommended. All readership levels.
Those who take the time to read Myron Lieberman's Educational Morass in depth will find...many other useful insights.
Perhaps no one has the lengthy, in-depth and varied experience with public education of Myron Lieberman. His writing is pertinent, perceptive, provocative, persuasive and eminently readable. His unmatched experiences with, and knowledge of, teacher unions merits particular attention to that section of this volume. Some of his prior books were selected as outstanding education books in the years published. The Education Morass merits similar recognition.
No one demolishes 'groupthink' about K-12 reform proposals better than Myron Lieberman. This latest, much-needed assault on the false claims and assumptions that pervade much of the debate and research agenda of established K-12 education interests is a must-read.
Lieberman cuts through myths, wishful thinking, and fuzzy thinking about public education in general and school choice in particular. His critiques of teacher unions, school boards, and many would-be reformers are equally sharp. But he points a way out of the morass: an alliance between reformers who know that educational innovation requires free markets and those whose main interest is equalizing educational opportunity.
The Educational Morass is a great book [that] gets to the root cause of why efforts to reform or replace public education are not successful and will not be in the absence of basic changes in the goals, strategies, and tactics of supporters of education reform. Dr. Lieberman clearly shows that education is a morass because several key groups have veto power over educational reform, and no interest group or coalition of interest groups controls the factors essential to effectuate a major educational reform. Lieberman's vision is a three-sector industry: public schools, nonpublic schools, and for-profit schools in a competitive education industry. His book shows that collective bargaining in public education violates the basic norms for determining public policy, and as a result, is heavily biased in favor of the status quo.
When historians look back on the reform era, Myron Lieberman will stand alone as a voice in the wilderness. The thoroughness of his research, the clarity of his writing, and the objectiveness of his reasoning in The Educational Morass show why he is one of the true intellectual champions of American education. It takes courage to tell the emperor he wears no clothes.
Once again, Myron Lieberman has written a book that asks tough questions and gives even tougher answers. School reform advocates as well as defenders of traditional public education will find a lot of the analysis in this book uncomfortable.
Mike Lieberman is one of the most deeply knowledgeable people in our country about the workings of education today. He analyzes that knowledge from a position of independence. He is a stubborn and fearless critic of the massive follies, both right and left, both Democrat and Republican, that plague us. His work is a spur to reform.
Leaving no ox un-gored, Myron Lieberman has written a terrific-but unsettling-book on the sad state of American education. It is a must-read for anyone who wants to know why none of our reforms du jour ever work, and to understand the heavy-lifting that must be done to get us out of our public schooling quagmire.
Illuminating...look at obstacles (notably chapters on hidden costs and education writers)...
Lieberman's fact-filled, right-handed punches land solidly, entertainingly, time and again.
This book is wonderfully unpredictable. Lieberman, having served as a union organizer, school board negotiator, schoolteacher, lobbyist, and university professor, is able to present key issues in K-12 education from perspectives that most have never considered....Recommended. All readership levels.
Those who take the time to read Myron Lieberman's Educational Morass in depth will find...many other useful insights.