Betrayed : How the Education Establishment has Betrayed America and What You Can Do about it.

In America, more money is spent from all sources on K-12 education than on the U.S. Department of Defense. Why then are so many children suffering what amounts to educational malpractice? Why are they crippled for life with a substandard education and a life-altering vision of themselves as "in...

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Main Author: Rogers, Laurie H.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, 2011.
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520 |a In America, more money is spent from all sources on K-12 education than on the U.S. Department of Defense. Why then are so many children suffering what amounts to educational malpractice? Why are they crippled for life with a substandard education and a life-altering vision of themselves as "incapable"? Betrayed is a passionate, well-researched and frank accounting of how a failing public-education system continues to be forced on teachers and students, despite its nearly complete lackof supporting research or successful student outcomes. Betrayed roots out the self-styled "stakeholders" who. 
505 0 |a PREFACE: WHY YOU SHOULD READ THIS BOOK; THANK YOU; CHAPTER 1. BETRAYED; CHAPTER 2. SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH PUBLIC EDUCATION; CHAPTER 3. THE SQUARE OF EFFECTIVE LEARNING, METT-TC, AND THE OODA LOOP; CHAPTER 4. CORNER 1: THE TEACHER'S ABILITY TO TEACH; CHAPTER 5. CORNER 2: THE CURRICULUM; CHAPTER 6. CORNER 3: THE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT; CHAPTER 7. CORNER 4: THE STUDENT'S ABILITY TO LEARN; CHAPTER 8. ADMINISTRATIVE ACCOUNTABILITY; CHAPTER 9. DEALING WITH DIVERSIONARY ISSUES; CHAPTER 10. CONSEQUENCES TO THE STUDENTS AND THE NATION; CHAPTER 11. WHAT CAN BE DONE? 
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