02800cam a22003138i 4500 68080 68080 BJBSDDR 20230410123917.0 ta 170630s2017 nyu b 001 0 eng 9781620972410 (hardback) spa BJBSDDR spa eng LA 217.2 M572a 2017 371.010973 Merrow, John, 1941- Addicted to reform : a twelve-step program to rescue public education / John Merrow. New York : The New Press, 2017. xxxviii, 277 p. ; 22 cm Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: Before entering treatment -- Step one: Own the problem -- Step two: Calculate the cost of reform -- Step three: Don't pay the price -- Step four: Ask the right question -- Step five: Make connections -- Step six: Start early -- Step seven: Expect more -- Step eight: Embrace technology (carefully) -- Step nine: Embrace "outsiders" (enthusiastically) -- Step ten: Embrace teachers (respectfully) -- Step eleven: Measure what matters -- Step twelve: Choose a new path. "The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America's misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During his four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on topics including America's obsession with standardized testing, the low standards of many teacher-training institutions, how corporate greed created an epidemic of attention deficit disorder, and Michelle Rhee's indifference to cheating in Washington, D.C. Along the way, he taught in high school, a historically black college, and a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on American public education into a "twelve-step" approach to fixing a K-12 system that Merrow describes as being "addicted to reform" but unwilling to address the real issue: schools that are inappropriate for the twenty-first century. Covering topics from how to turn digital natives into digital citizens to why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one, the twelve smart chapters in this book-including "Measure What Matters," "Ask the Right Question," and "Change Teaching"-form an astute and urgent blueprint for offering a quality education to every American child"-- Provided by publisher. Escuelas públicas Evaluación 1684 Cambio educacional Estados Unidos 1685 Educación Fines y objetivos Estados Unidos 795 Educational change United States. Education Aims and objectives United States. lcc BK 0 0 0 0 HU BJB BJB HU 2023-04-10 0 LA 217.2 M572a 2017 00000120370 2018-10-25 00:00:00 1 2018-10-25 BK