Defining the Good School : Educational Adequacy Requires More than Minimums /: Educational Adequacy Requires More than Minimums. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jeff Swensson, Michael Shaffer.
• Authors: Swensson, Jeff; Shaffer, Michael
• Contents: Table of Contents ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Preface ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">Introduction ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">CHAPTER 1. What’s the Purpose of Public Education? ; ; The Contemporary Purpose of Education ; ; At A Loss to Glimpse the Future ; ; The More US Education Changes, the More It Stays the Same ; ; A Selfie Puts Education’s Purpose and Educational Adequacy to the Test ; ; A Selfie Reveals… ; ; State Authority for Public Education ; ; A Diverse Student Population ; ; High School Graduation ; ; Funding for US Education ; ; Parents and Caregivers ; ; The Impact of Standardized Testing ; ; Contemporary Purpose and Standardized Testing ; ; What Do We Have Here? Implications from the Selfie ; ; A Picture That Demands at Least a Thousand Words ; ; A Future for US Public Education ; ; Beginning to Search with the End in Mind ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">CHAPTER 2. True North: The Moral Obligation of Public Education ; ; True North and Socialization ; ; Socialization and Moral Obligation in Public Education ; ; Moral Obligation: One Point of View ; ; Moral Obligation: Another Point of View ; ; The Troubled History of Moral Obligation ; ; The Impact of US History ; ; Moral Obligation and the Absence of Critical Habits of Mind ; ; The Capacity for Moral Obligation in Public Education ; ; Leading-Out Principled Reasoning ; ; Fostering Autonomy and Relatedness ; ; Interpretations of Moral Obligation ; ; Two Imperatives of the Moral Obligation of Public Education ; ; Responses to these Imperatives ; ; Students and Self-Mastery and Principled Reasoning ; ; Choices and the Future of Moral Obligation ; ; Moral Obligation and Choices About Student Capacity ; ; Moral Obligation and Choices About Agency in Public Education ; ; Standing in the Way of Moral Obligation ; ; Precepts of the Moral Obligation of US Public Education ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">CHAPTER 3. The Eye of the Beholder: An Unavoidable Barrier ; ; This Search and Its Barriers ; ; The Perspectives and Publics of Contemporary US Public Education ; ; History and the Eye of the Beholder ; ; Major Perspectives About US Public Education ; ; Free Market Schooling ; ; Choice + Mechanisms = Competition in the Free Market ; ; In the Free Market Only the Individual Knows Best ; ; To Create the Marketplace Only the Self-Anointed Know Best ; ; Traditional Public Schools <br />; Two Publics in US Public Education ; ; The Public ; ; And <span style="font-style:italic;">the public ; ; Barriers Arise Where None Should Exist ; ; Why Do These Barriers Endure? ; ; Taking this Search Beyond the Eye of the Beholder ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">CHAPTER 4. A Barrier Within: The Tyranny of Either/Or ; ; The Synergy of Struggle ; ; Characteristics of the Tyranny of Either/Or ; ; Adult-Centric Advantage ; ; Ideology Is Destiny ; ; Reform Is Ideology ; ; Education Is Singularity ; ; The TEO Barrier: School-Attached or School-Detached ; ; The Bricks in this Barrier ; ; Dismantling the Tyranny of Either/Or ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">CHAPTER 5. Confronting the Barrier of Conventional Wisdom ; ; The Authority of Conventional Wisdom ; ; The Baleful State of Educational Adequacy ; ; Educational Adequacy as a Social Construction ; ; Educational Adequacy as Minimum Quality ; ; A Challenge to Educational Adequacy? See You in Court! ; ; Deficiencies and Disparities ; ; How Educational Adequacy Becomes Conventional Wisdom ; ; The Paradox of Educational Adequacy ; ; Educational Adequacy: A Dead End ; ; Can Conventional Wisdom Be More than Minimums? ; ; Reconsidering Educational Adequacy ; ; Conventional Wisdom and Linearity ; ; Mediational Influence ; ; <span style="font-weight:bold;">CHAPTER 6. The Measurement Barrier in US Public Education ; ; I-P-O and Measurement: Standardized Testing ; ; Measurement and its Misnomers ; ; Measurement Misnamed: Accountability ; ; Measurement Misnamed: Efficiency ; ; Naming Rights: The Convenience of Efficiency ; ; Measurement Misnamed: Cost Abatement ; ; The Fog of Certainty ; ; Testing Bait and Switch ; ; Just More Numbers in the Wall ; ; Students Lost in the Fog ; ; Measurement and the Illusion Called Gap-Gazing ; ; The Weakness of the Bricks in this Barrier ; ; The Case for Effective Evaluation ; ; Examples of Effective Evaluation ; ; Teaching to Cognitive Expectations ; ; The End of Measurement Inadequacy ; <br /><span style="font-weight:bold;">CHAPTER 7. Power and Public Education ; ; The Presence of Power in Education ; ; The Rationale for the Future of US Public Education ; ; The Heart of the Good Public School ; ; Power: Abuse and Potential of a Steady State ; ; When Power Is Exclusionary ; ; The Minor Leagues: Purpose, Power, and Education ; ; Why the Original Power of Education Is Vulnerable ; ; Amorality and External Power ; ; The Many Effects When Wires Cross ; ; The “What, ” “Who, ” and “Why” of Power in Education ; ; The “What” of Power in Public Education <
• Publisher Details: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource (162 pages)
• Subjects: Education: Comparative; Education: Standards (incl. Common Core)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781475856224; 1475856229
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