Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools

ISBN-13: 9780415927628 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 288 str.

Tony Wagner; Thomas Vander Ark

Opis

Dramatically reframing the debate on education in America, Making the Grade shows why today's test-driven reforms will fail and points the way toward a system that benefits all students.

Recenzje

"...offers a number of solutions that move the dialogue beyond tired debates." -- Publishers Weekly
"...a laudable template for restructuring education..." -- Kirkus Reviews
"With new ideas about school reform, Tony Wagner's Making the Grade is a 'must read' for educators and policy leaders who want to improve student and school performance. This book recognizes that our schools have historically spent far more time sorting kids than preparing them to succeed beyond the classroom. It confirms that standards-based reform - with its focus on standards, assessments and accountability - alone won't produce the results we want. We also need to restructure our schools and build their capacity to achieve higher-level learning. And Wagner has given us some valuable suggestions about how this can be done." -- Susan Tave Zelman, Ohio Superintendent of Public Instruction

Spis treści

Foreward Introduction: What's Really Wrong With Our Schools? Chp. 1: How Has the World Changed for Children? Chp. 2: What Do Today's Students Need to Know? Chp. 3: How Do We Hold Students and Schools Accountable? Chp. 4: What Do Good Schools Look Like? Chp. 5: What Must Leaders Do? Bibliography Notes

O autorze

Tony Wagner is Co-Director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and leads the Harvard Seminar on Public Engagement. Senior Advisor to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation education programs, he consults widely to schools, districts, and foundations in the U.S. and internationally. He is the author of How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities.