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Straitjacket : how overregulation stifles creativity and innovation in education / George Goens and Philip Streifer.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham : Rowman and LIttlefield Education, a division of Rowman and Littlefield, [2013]Description: 1 online resource (vii, 154 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781475805680
  • 1475805683
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: StraitjacketDDC classification:
  • 379 23
LOC classification:
  • LC89
Online resources:
Contents:
Preface -- Straitjacket -- The Context for Schools and the Expanding Federal Role -- The Narrowing Corridor -- The Growing Impact of Regulation on Public Schools -- The Truth about Achievement and the Preparation Gap -- Context, Complexity, and "Complicatedness" -- Unshackling Creativity and Innovation -- Culture Matters -- So What Does This All Mean? -- Eight Rules to Guide Real Reform of American Public Education -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- About the Authors.
Summary: The straitjacket of centralized control and coercive approaches to the problems that public education is facing is not the solution, but actually is part of the problem. And where achievement is lower than desired this book brings attention to the root cause - lack of student preparation so that more resources can be put into catching these kids up, rather than into more tests, more curriculum development, and more administrative staff needed to comply with all of this complexity and growing regulations.
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Preface -- Straitjacket -- The Context for Schools and the Expanding Federal Role -- The Narrowing Corridor -- The Growing Impact of Regulation on Public Schools -- The Truth about Achievement and the Preparation Gap -- Context, Complexity, and "Complicatedness" -- Unshackling Creativity and Innovation -- Culture Matters -- So What Does This All Mean? -- Eight Rules to Guide Real Reform of American Public Education -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- About the Authors.

The straitjacket of centralized control and coercive approaches to the problems that public education is facing is not the solution, but actually is part of the problem. And where achievement is lower than desired this book brings attention to the root cause - lack of student preparation so that more resources can be put into catching these kids up, rather than into more tests, more curriculum development, and more administrative staff needed to comply with all of this complexity and growing regulations.

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