Gebundenes Buch

Failure Up Close

What Happens, Why It Happens, and What We Can Learn from It

Herausgeber: Greene, Jay P.; Mcshane, Michael Q.

Beschreibung

This book engages a select group of scholars from across the ideological spectrum to examine particular education reform efforts of recent years that have not succeeded and offer lessons for school and system improvement that can be learned from them.

Autor

Jay P. Greene is Distinguished Professor and Head of the Department of Education Reform at the University of Arkansas. Greene's current areas of research interest include school choice, culturally enriching field trips, and the effect of schools on non-cognitive and civic values. His research has appeared in academic journals such as Education Finance and Policy and Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis, and in newspapers, such as the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, and the Washington Post. He is the author of Education Myths and Why America Needs School Choice. Michael Q. McShane is Director of National Research at EdChoice and an adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. He is the editor of New and Better Schools, the author of Education and Opportunity, and coeditor of Educational Entrepreneurship Today, Teacher Quality 2.0, and Common Core Meets Education Reform. McShane's commentary has been published in the Huffington Post, USA Today, and The Washington Post, and he has been featured in Teachers College Commentary, and Education Next.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 214
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 505g
• ISBN-13: 9781475840551
• ISBN-10: 1475840551
• Artikelnr.: 49449095