In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization - Tapa dura

Meier, Deborah

 
9780807031421: In Schools We Trust: Creating Communities of Learning in an Era of Testing and Standardization
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ISBN 10: 0807031429 ISBN 13: 9780807031421
Editorial: Beacon Pr, 2002

Sinopsis

We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula—now adopted by all fifty states—as our national surrogates for trust.

Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win our faith by showing they can do their job. But she argues just as fiercely that standardized testing is precisely the wrong way to that end. The tests themselves, she argues, cannot give the results they claim. And in the meantime, they undermine the kind of education we actually want.

In this multilayered exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and puts forward a different vision, forged in the success stories of small public schools she and her colleagues have created in Boston and New York. These nationally acclaimed schools are built, famously, around trusting teachers—and students and parents—to use their own judgment.

Meier traces the enormous educational value of trust; the crucial and complicated trust between parents and teachers; how teachers need to become better judges of each others' work; how race and class complicate trust at all levels; and how we can begin to "scale up" from the kinds of successes she has created.

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Deborah Meier is the MacArthur Award-winning founder of the Central Park East School in East Harlem and the Mission Hill School in Boston. The author of The Power of Their Ideas and Will Standards Save Public Education? (Beacon / 0441-3 / $12.00 pb), she lives in Hillsdale, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts.


MacArthur Award-winning educator Deborah Meier is author of The Power of Their Ideas and Will Standards Save Public Education?. She lives in Hillsdale, New York, and Boston, Massachusetts.

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Editorial
Beacon Pr
Año de publicación
2002
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0807031429
ISBN 13 
9780807031421
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Número de edición
1
Número de páginas
200
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