Justin A. Collins

Battling the Student Engagement Front

Fresh Tactics in a Tortured Turnaround Struggle

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Produktbeschreibung

This book sought to explore whether school funding practices satisfy the equity and adequacy standards delineated by policymakers and judges, and demanded by the broader public. A funding formula myopia, the book argues, has left student engagement largely overlooked. It comes as no surprise, therefore, that vast funding enhancements have introduced disappointing outcomes results. The book argues the front of the classroom must become and remain the epicenter of reform activity: and that transforming instructional and engagement behaviors are effort-intensive endeavors that very little in pecuniary terms.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 226
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 374g
• ISBN-13: 9781610487542
• ISBN-10: 1610487540
• Artikelnr.: 39616632

Autorenporträt

By Justin A. Collins

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1: Grand Promises, Austere Means Survival
of the Fittest Large Returns on Large Investments The Economic Bedrock It's
Raining Outside The Funding Maze Fixing Broken Schools by Fixing Broken
Finance Systems? 2: The Fairness of the Playing Field: Funding Equity and
Adequacy Passion Finds the Classroom Taking a Look Under the Finance Hood
Big Four Funding Practices Kentucky and Ohio Revisited 3: Robe Policymaking
Slaying the Messenger Bench Players Swirling Sociological Winds The
Jurisprudential Crystal Ball 4: Changing Schools Through Changed Pedagogy
What's Going Through Teachers' Minds What Money Can't Buy The Instructional
Practices Inventory Described Understanding Not Just the Machinery, But the
Underlying Processes Surveys Showing the Promise of Change Appreciating
Building-Level Differences in Numerical Terms Reform Mechanics by the
Numbers : How Excellent Schools Do It 5: Spare the Flying Cars Prepare for
Takeoff Gaping Disparities If It's Not Broken, Fix It? The Power of One
Options in the Accountability Age