Standards for Our Schools

How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them

Häftad, Engelska, 2002

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"A must read for those seeking high standards for all students. With unusual insight, the authors address the major issues, offering inspirational examples of schools that succeed." --Jerome T. Murphy, professor and dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education This timely, tough-minded book shows how American public schools can be saved by instituting high standards for academic achievement. It explains not just what the standards movement is about and why it is important, but also what it will take to bring every student up to high standards, no matter where that student starts. Tucker and Codding focus on empowering both students and adults by giving students the gift of high expectations and by giving school professionals the information, skills, authority and resources needed to do the job. They advocate building a standards-based instructional system, creating a results-oriented culture devoted to continuous improvement, and making the institution and the people in it accountable for reaching the goals set by the standards.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2002-08-12
Mått151 x 232 x 27 mm
Vikt524 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagJohn Wiley & Sons Inc
ISBN9780787964283

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Marc S. Tucker is president of the National Center on Education and the Economy and codirector of the New Standards Project, the nation's largest effort to create a system of performance standards for our schools. The creator of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards and co-author of America's Choice: High Skills or Low Wages, he also coauthored the prize-winning Thinking for a Living: Education and the Wealth of Nations. Judy B. Codding is vice-president for programs at the National Center on Education and the Economy. A former teacher at the elementary, middle and high school levels, Codding has also been an award-winning principal of one of Los Angeles' toughest high schools as well as of some of the wealthiest schools in New York's Westchester county. She was one of four charter principals who participated in the creation of Theodore Sizer's Coalition of Essential Schools.

AcknowledgmentsThe AuthorsPrologue: The View from the Plains 1Introduction: Failure Is Not an Option 17Interlude: What Do You Mean, Tiffany Won't Get Credit for Algebra I? 251 Setting High Standards for Everyone 31Interlude: But How Will We Actually Get These Kids to Algebra II? 652 Teaching to the Standards 73Interlude: Upset Victory: Student Achievement 1, Everything Else 0 1013 Leading and Managing for Success 107Interlude: The School Nobody Wanted 1334 Rethinking the Elementary and Middle Schools 139Interlude: The Graphic Arts Academy 1695 Beyond the Comprehensive High School 175Interlude: Accountability, Chicago-Style 2096 Rebuilding "Central" for Accountability 217Epilogue: What We Owe Jeff 245A The National Center on Education and the Economy 251B New Standards Performance Standards 255C New Standards Reference Examinations 291D Resources for Standards-Based Education 301E Glossary 313F Annotated Bibliography 323Notes 331Index 335