Schools for Sale Why Free Market Policies Won't Improve America's Schools and What Will |
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| Author:
| House, Ernest |
| Series edited by:
| Murphy, Joseph F. |
| Series title: | Critical Issues in Educational Leadership Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8077-3737-8 |
| Publication Date: | Apr 1998 |
| Publisher: | Teachers College Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $34.00 |
Book Description:
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This text illustrates that attempts to reshape American schools to make ""productive workers"" ignore how schools work and students learn, and are therefore doomed to failure. The book provides an appraisal framework to test the relative merits and viability of popular reform ideas.
This text illustrates that attempts to reshape American schools to make ""productive workers"" ignore how schools work and students learn, and are therefore doomed to failure. The book provides an appraisal framework to test the relative merits and viability of popular reform ideas.