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Perlstein, Linda

 
9780805088021: Tested: One American School Struggles to Make the Grade
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ISBN 10: 0805088024 ISBN 13: 9780805088021
Editorial: Griffin, 2008

Sinopsis

A "vivid, unpredictable, fair, balanced and . . . very entertaining" look at how education reforms have changed one typical American elementary school over the course of a year (Jay Mathews, The Washington Post)

The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and are judged almost solely on the bottom line: test scores.

To see if this world is producing better students, Linda Perlstein immersed herself in a suburban Maryland elementary school, once deemed a failure, that is now held up as an example of reform done right. Perlstein explores the rewards and costs of that transformation, and the resulting portrait—detailed, human, and truly thought-provoking—provides the first detailed view of how new education policies are modified by human realities.

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Acerca del autor

Linda Perlstein spent six years covering education for The Washington Post and is the author of the acclaimed Not Much Just Chillin': The Hidden Lives of Middle Schoolers. She speaks nationwide to educators and parents. She grew up in Milwaukee and now lives with her husband in Baltimore, Maryland, and western Virginia.

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Editorial
Griffin
Año de publicación
2008
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0805088024
ISBN 13 
9780805088021
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
320
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ISBN 10:  0805080821 ISBN 13:  9780805080827
Editorial: Henry Holt, 2007
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