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Product Description What is wrong with public education? Why isn't my child learning? Why are so many students graduating from high school without the skills to be successful in college or to enter the workforce?... Why is public education failing masses of students across America? With these difficult and vexing questions, Denise Turgeon opens her new, timely book on public education in America, Return to the Little Red Schoolhouse: Whose Education Is This Anyway? The book is largely an attempt to find realistic answers to these questions. Turgeon offers a bold diagnosis of the situation and advocates philosophical and methodological changes as the best path forward for reforming public education. As a teacher and an administrator in a large inner city school district for more than twenty years, Turgeon is able to offer an insider's view of the situation. She has distinguished herself through a long record of service and by winning Teacher of the Year and Future Leaders of Tomorrow awards. Return to the Little Red Schoolhouse represents a distillation of her experience and thoughts about education in America and what can be done to improve it. Her central argument is that for too long solutions have been sought outside of schools, in the form of government programs and funding. The result has been ballooning bureaucracies increasingly disconnected from the classroom itself. As Turgeon argues: "Government oversight, constant scrutiny, and topheavy central office school administrations have consumed public education. School districts continue to expand ever upward layer built upon layers until those at the top are totally detached from and indifferent to those at the bottom. Isolated from their source, central office administrations have lost sight of purpose." The solution to the dilemma, as Turgeon sees it, is a bottomup approach, in which the principal stakeholders teachers, students, parents, and communities are empowered and freed from centralized remote control, which mandates standardized testing and a onesizefitsall approach. With a more active voice and a bigger role in governance, stakeholders can customize education and realize its timeless goals of preparing and inspiring students. Return to the Little Red Schoolhouse should be mandatory reading for those who truly care about education in America. Teachers, administrators, parents, and community leaders all will benefit from a careful consideration of Turgeon's arguments. A lucid overview of a major domestic issue, Return to the Little Red Schoolhouse provides the kind of innovative thinking required for moving beyond the current problems public education faces. About the Author Denise M. Turgeon has been a teacher and an administrator in a large inner city school district for more than twenty years. She has won Teacher of the Year and Future Leaders of Tomorrow awards.Return to the Little Red Schoolhouse represents a distillation of her experience and thoughts about education in America and what can be done to improve it.
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