Addicted to Reform: A 12-Step Program to Rescue Public Education
- ISBN-10
- 1620972433
- ISBN-13
- 9781620972434
- Category
- Education
- Pages
- 224
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-08-15
- Publisher
- The New Press
- Author
- John Merrow
Description
The prize-winning PBS correspondent's provocative antidote to America’s misguided approaches to K-12 school reform During an illustrious four-decade career at NPR and PBS, John Merrow—winner of the George Polk Award, the Peabody Award, and the McGraw Prize—reported from every state in the union, as well as from dozens of countries, on everything from the rise of district-wide cheating scandals and the corporate greed driving an ADD epidemic to teacher-training controversies and America’s obsession with standardized testing. Along the way, he taught in a high school, at a historically black college, and at a federal penitentiary. Now, the revered education correspondent of PBS NewsHour distills his best thinking on education into a twelve-step approach to fixing a K–12 system that Merrow describes as being “addicted to reform” but unwilling to address the real issue: American public schools are ill-equipped to prepare young people for the challenges of the twenty-first century. This insightful book looks at how to turn digital natives into digital citizens and why it should be harder to become a teacher but easier to be one. Merrow offers smart, essential chapters—including “Measure What Matters,” and “Embrace Teachers”—that reflect his countless hours spent covering classrooms as well as corridors of power. His signature candid style of reportage comes to life as he shares lively anecdotes, schoolyard tales, and memories that are at once instructive and endearing. Addicted to Reform is written with the kind of passionate concern that could come only from a lifetime devoted to the people and places that constitute the foundation of our nation. It is a “big book” that forms an astute and urgent blueprint for providing a quality education to every American child.
Get the book
Similar books
-
Addiction Reform in the Progressive Age: Scientific and Social Responses to Drug Dependence in the United States, 1870-1930
By Arnold JaffeAddiction Reform in the Progressive Age: Scientific and Social Responses to Drug Dependence in the United States, 1870-1930
-
Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction
By Tom RaabeIn this 10th-anniversary edition of the best-selling Biblioholism: The Literary Addiction,Ó Tom Raabe adds a mirthful discussion of the ever-mutating, new e-landscape & its effects on fellow biblioholics everywhere.
-
Addicted to Incarceration: Corrections Policy and the Politics of Misinformation in the United States
By TRAVIS C. PRATTAnalyzing crime policies as they relate to crime rates and society′s ability to both lower the crime rate and address the role of incarceration in preventing future crime, this book shows students how ineffective the rush to incarcerate ...
-
Coverage for Mental and Addictive Disorders in Health Care Reform: A Cost Effective Approach : Hearing of the Committee on...
By United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Human ResourcesCoverage for Mental and Addictive Disorders in Health Care Reform: A Cost Effective Approach : Hearing of the Committee on...
-
When Society Becomes an Addict
By Anne Wilson SchaefAn incisive look at the system of addiction pervasive in Western society today.
-
Chasing the Scream: The Inspiration for the Feature Film "The United States vs. Billie Holiday"
By Johann HariHis discoveries led him to give a TED talk and animation which have now been viewed more than 25 million times. This is the story of a life-changing journey that showed the world the opposite of addiction is connection.
-
Chancers: Addiction, Prison, Recovery, Love: One Couple's Memoir
By Susan Stellin, Graham MacIndoePraise for Chancers “Stellin and MacIndoe, in entries sometimes akin to fighters in the ring, tell the story of their lives as MacIndoe rides a roller-coaster life of drug addiction and prison. . . . [Chancers] grabs in a voyeuristic way ...
-
Psychiatric Services for Addicted Patients
By American Psychiatric Association... Addiction Treatment System The two most important current policy issues affecting the future of sup- port for addiction treatment are health system reform and strategy modifi- cations in the national policy known as the " war on drugs ...
-
Addicted to Christ: Remaking Men in Puerto Rican Pentecostal Drug Ministries
By Helena Hansen... drug policy and addiction treatment under health reform, given that health reform has been a key element of the island's efforts to elevate its status in relation to the United States. These two stories of economic “development” and of ...
-
Addicted to Certainty: The Journey of a Twice Recovering Fundamentalist
By Howard C. MackertIt was only by discovering the unconditional acceptance and grace of God that Howard was able to forgive the past, live a life of love, and embrace the mystery of faith--without a fundamentalist addiction to certainty.