In Need of a Renaissance: Real Reform Will Renew, Not Abandon, Our Neighborhood Schools

Autor/in	Ravitch, Diane
Titel	In Need of a Renaissance: Real Reform Will Renew, Not Abandon, Our Neighborhood Schools
Quelle	In: American Educator, 34 (2010) 2, S.10-13 (12 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0148-432X
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Public Education; Neighborhood Schools; Educational Change; Accountability; Theory Practice Relationship; Role of Education; Parent Student Relationship; School Readiness; Socioeconomic Background; Teaching (Occupation); Unions; Teacher Administrator Relationship; Cooperative Planning; Educational Improvement; Objectives; Goal Orientation; Strategic Planning; Neighborhoods; Time Perspective; Alignment (Education); Barriers; Politics of Education; Needs Assessment; Curriculum; Instructional Effectiveness + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Öffentliche Erziehung; Bildungsreform; Verantwortung; Theorie-Praxis-Beziehung; Bildungsauftrag; Readiness for school; School ability; Schulreife; Sozioökonomische Lage; Teaching; Lehrberuf; Teaching improvement; Unterrichtsentwicklung; Goal definition; Zielsetzung; Zielorientierung; Zielvorstellung; Strategy; Planning; Strategie; Planung; Neighbourhoods; Nachbarschaft; Zeitbezug; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Bedarfsermittlung; Curricula; Lehrplan; Rahmenplan; Unterrichtserfolg
Abstract	Hollow reforms, like proposals that emphasize get-tough accountability over support for educators and widespread choice over quality neighborhood schools, enjoy their share of supporters. As the author watched the choice and accountability movements gain momentum across the nation, she concluded that curriculum and instruction were far more important than choice and accountability. In this article, the author argues that it is time for those who want to improve their schools to focus on the essentials of education. Far too many reformers imagine that it is easy to create a successful school, but it is not. Schools can improve and learn from one another, but school improvements--if they are real--occur incrementally, as a result of sustained effort over years. The author contends that if reformers want to improve education, they must first of all have a vision of what good education is. As a nation, America needs a strong and vibrant public education system. Efforts to reform public education are, ironically, diminishing its quality and endangering its very survival. The author urges reformers to turn their attention to improving the schools, infusing them with the substance of genuine learning and reviving the conditions that make learning possible. (Contains 9 endnotes.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10