Fred M Newmann

Gebundenes Buch

Authentic Achievement

Restructuring Schools for Intellectual Quality

Beschreibung

"Fred Newmann, unlike most researchers, pays attention to the critical linkage between reorganizing schools and what happens in classrooms. In these research-based portraits of schools and classrooms, reform-minded policymakers and practitioners will find compelling evidence to never forget the connection between teaching, learning, and restructuring." -Larry Cuban, professor of education, Stanford University Why are some schools more successful than others? This new book presents the findings of a five-year, federally funded study that examined the connection between school restructuring and student achievement. Using a wealth of examples, the authors provide a vivid picture of the conditions under which innovations in a school's organization contribute to student achievement-extending learning beyond rote memorization of isolated facts to thinking, disciplined understanding, and complex communication. Standards for achieving student intellectual quality are recommAnded, and evidence is provided that teaching consistent with these standards greatly contributes to student achievement. The results and recommAndations offer teachers, administrators, and policymakers an important mid-course correction in the process of school restructuring.

Autor

FRED M. NEWMANN is professor of curriculum and instruction, University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is former director of the National Center on Effective Secondary Schools and of the Center on Organization and Restructuring of Schools.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Oktober 1996
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 768g
• ISBN-13: 9780787903206
• ISBN-10: 0787903205
• Artikelnr.: 21710130

Rezensionen

?Newmann and his colleagues get beyond the slogans about ?highstandards' to what must be done in classrooms and schools. Theyroot this analysis in careful research, thereby giving itespecially persuasive force.? --Theodore R. Sizer, universityprofessor, Brown University, and chairman, Coalition of EssentialSchools

?Fred Newmann, unlike most researchers, pays attention to thecritical linkage between reorganizing schools and what happens inclassrooms. In these research-based portraits of schools andclassrooms, reform-minded policymakers and practitioners will findcompelling evidence to never forget the connection betweenteaching, learning, and restructuring.? --Larry Cuban, professor ofeducation, Stanford University

?Rare is

the educational text that takes theory as seriously aspractice, that produces as much good news as sobering analyses,that tests for excellence and equity in the same setting. Newmannand Associates demonstrate unequivocally the powerful relation ofgood teaching to serious learning. This book is a gift toeducators, a treat for policymakers, and a treasure for those of uswho are starved for images of good educational practice. --MichelleFine, professor of psychology, City University of New York,Graduate Center

?Administrators, teachers, and parents who are serious aboutimplementing positive change in the educational process for the21st century will benefit from Authentic Achievement. In a societywhere educational qualifications are necessary to competeprofessionally, this book is a roadmap, showing ways we can helpyoung people achieve their goals.? --Floretta Dukes McKenzie,former superintAndent of schools, Washington, D.C., and president,The McKenzie Group, Inc.