In the Name of Excellence: The Struggle to Reform the Nation's Schools, Why It's Failing, and What Should Be Done - Hardcover
Examines the problems with today's schools, explains how school reform has failed, and discusses the flaws in standardized testing
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About the Author:
About the Author:
Thomas Toch is the education correspondent for U.S. News and World Report. He is has also written on education for a wide range of other national publications and is a frequent television and radio commentator on educational issues.
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About the Author:
Thomas Toch is the education correspondent for U.S. News and World Report. He is has also written on education for a wide range of other national publications and is a frequent television and radio commentator on educational issues.
Toch, a reporter with U.S. News & World Report , correctly asserts that the oft-proposed public education reforms (improved texts, greater public accountability, tougher academic curriculum, stronger teachers, revamped teaching and testing, etc.) are interdependent and each must be implemented in order for the desired "excellence" to result. But without strong teachers, he feels a tougher curriculum means little. In this book, which he divides into three parts, Toch details the history of the reform movement, gives reasons why the movement is not making great forward progress, and chronicles the consequences of the apathy and alienation rife in U.S. schools. Toch argues for a marketplace of schools by choice in public education, required community service projects, peer tutoring, and magnet schools to increase the commitment of teachers and students to the educational process. Yes, his is another school reform book, but one that proposes the reassertion of humanity into the schools. Recommended.
- Scott Johnson, Meridian Com munity Coll. Lib., Miss.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
- Scott Johnson, Meridian Com munity Coll. Lib., Miss.
Copyright 1991 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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- PublisherReplica Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0735103690
- ISBN 13 9780735103696
- BindingHardcover
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