A "Comprehensive" Problem: The Disconnect between Fantasy and Reality

Autor/in	Greene, Jay P.
Titel	A "Comprehensive" Problem: The Disconnect between Fantasy and Reality
Quelle	In: Education Next, 6 (2006) 1, S.23-26 (4 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1539-9664
Schlagwörter	High Schools; Elementary Secondary Education; Educational Change; Reading Tests; School Restructuring; Fantasy; Reading Achievement; National Competency Tests; Scores; Educational Strategies + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? High school; Oberschule; Bildungsreform; Lesetest; Schulreformplan; Schulumwandlung; Fantasie; Leseleistung; Lehrstrategie
Abstract	According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), the average 17-year-old today is no more proficient at reading or mathematics than his counterpart in 1970. Some progress has been made by 9- and 13-year-olds, but the gains evaporate by the time these students reach the end of their K-12 experience. The average 17-year-old student's score on the NAEP reading test was 285 in 2004, exactly the same as in 1971. Math results are no different, going from a score of 304 in 1973 to 307 in 2004, a change that is not statistically significant. This lack of advancement is more disappointing considering how low the achievement bar has been. The problem is not lack of resources. The problem is that people do not think about high schools correctly. The high schools that were created in the 20th century--big, sprawling, "comprehensive"--are not like elementary and preschools. They are not natural extensions of families, and their teachers and administrators should not be expected to act as if they were members of a family. This logic is why the new wave of high school reform efforts, led by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has focused on the disconnect between the reality of big, modern high schools and the fantasy of them as extensions of the family. In this paper, Gates has addressed this disconnect with various strategies. (Contains 1 figure.) (ERIC).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10