It's the Classroom, Stupid

Download or read book It's the Classroom, Stupid written by Kalman R. Hettleman and published by R&L Education. This book was released on 2010-01-16 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system. The plan reflects the author's rare fusion of on-the-ground experience as school board member, public administrator and political activist and exhaustive policy research. The causes of failure, Hettleman shows, lie in obsolete ideas and false certainties that are ingrained in a trinity of dominant misbeliefs. First, that educators can be entrusted on their own to do what it takes to reform our schools. Second, that we need to retreat from the landmark federal No Child Left Behind Act and restore more local control. And third, that politics must be kept out of public education.