[PDF.57ok] In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization

In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization

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 | #893724 in Books |  Beacon Press |  2003-08-01 |  2003-08-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.50 x.61 x5.54l,.50 | File type: PDF | 208 pages

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||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| In Defense of Trusting Communities Via Small Schools!|By Kevin Currie-Knight|Deborah Meier is one thoughtful educator. I first encountered this book in graduate school (in a class on Education Leadership) and, to my surprise, ended up coming back to it again and again. At first, I wasn't terribly blown away by Meier's arguments and the nuances in them, but the book did grow on|From Publishers Weekly|While policy makers agree that big city public schools are failing to meet children's needs, their solutions usually involve shifting responsibility to distant figures chancellors, mayors and relying on abstract performance evaluation tool

We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states-as our national surrogates for trust.

Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win our faith by showing they can do their job. But she argues just as fiercely that standardized testing is precisely the wrong way to that end. The tests themselves, she argues...

You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization   |  Deborah Meier. Just read it with an open mind because none of us really know.

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