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Autor/inn/en | Greene, Jay P.; Forster, Greg; Winters, Marcus A. |
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Titel | Education myths. What special interest groups want you to believe about our schools, and why it isn't so. |
Quelle | Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers (2005), XII, 267 S. |
Beigaben | grafische Darstellungen |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Monographie |
ISBN | 0-7425-4977-1 |
Abstract | Inhalt: The money myth: "schools perform poorly because they need more money" -- The special ed myth. "special education programs burden public schools, hindering their academic performance" -- The myth of helplessness. "social problems like poverty cause students to fail, schools are helpless to prevent it" -- The class size myth. "schools should reduce class sizes, small classes would produce big improvements" -- The certification myth. "certified or more experienced teachers are substantially more effective" -- The teacher pay myth. "teachers are badly underpaid" -- The myth of decline. "schools are performing much worse than they used to" -- The graduation myth. "nearly all students graduate from high school" -- The college access myth. "non-academic barriers prevent a lot of minority students from attending college" -- The high stakes myth. "the results of high-stakes tests are not credible because they're distorted by cheating and teaching to the test" -- The push-out myth : |
Erfasst von | Universitätsbibliothek Erlangen-Nürnberg |
Update | 2006/4 |