The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas,New

The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday's Ideas,New

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In this genial and challenging overview of endless debates over school reform, Rick Hess shows that even bitter opponents in debates about how to improve schools agree on much more than they realizeand that much of it must change radically. Cutting through the tangled thickets of right and leftwing dogma, he clears the ground for transformation of the American school system.Whatever they think of school vouchers or charter schools, teacher merit pay or bilingual education, most educators and advocates take many other things for granted. The oneteacheroneclassroom model. The professional fulltime teacher. Students grouped in agedefined grades. The ninemonth calendar. Topdown local district control. All were innovative and excitingin the nineteenth century. As Hess shows, the system hasnt changed since most Americans lived on farms and in villages, since school taught you to read, write, and do arithmetic, and since only an elite went to high school, let alone college.Arguing that a fundamentally nineteenth century system cant be right for a twentyfirst century world, Hess suggests that uniformity gets in the way of quality, and urges us to create a much wider variety of schools, to meet a greater range of needs for different kinds of talents, needed by a vastly more complex and demanding society.

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