Unsustainable A Strategy for Making Public Schooling More Productive, Effective, and Affordable

Name: Unsustainable A Strategy for Making Public Schooling More Productive, Effective, and Affordable
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ISBN: 9781607093657

ISBN-10: 1607093650

ISBN-13: 9781607093657

Edition: 2011

Authors: Tim R. McDonald

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UNSUSTAINABLE frames the problem of cost and effectiveness in AmericaOs public schooling system, and provides a strategy to address it. It argues something that many education professionals and policy makers have come to believe but rarely mention: That this countryOs system of K-12 schooling is not sustainable and is becoming a poorer value each year that goes by. It argues for improving the cost and effectiveness of public schooling through a strategy of innovation that targets productivity. Addressing the question how to do this, the book provides policy recommendations to the state, district, and federal levels. In a final chapter it outlines uncommon strategies for overcoming some of…

Book details

List price: $34.00
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Education
Publication date: 2/16/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 138
Size: 6.09" wide x 9.12" long x 0.29" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English



List of Illustrations


Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction



A Strategy for Improvement



Redesigning the System



Change Requires a Viable Strategy



The Current System of K-12 Is Not Sustainable



There Is a Productivity Paradox in K-12 Education



Redesigning Schools for Performance



Design Matters



Redesigning Schools and the Public Schooling System



Understanding New Technologies in Education



Properly Applying Information Technologies in Education



Moving the Strategy Forward



Policy Opportunities



Solutions to Barriers


Notes


Bibliography


About the Author