UNSUSTAINABLE

A Strategy for Making Public Schooling More Productive, Effective, and Affordable

By (author) Tim R. McDonald

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Publication date:

16 February 2011

Length of book:

130 pages

Publisher

R&L Education

ISBN-13: 9781607093664

UNSUSTAINABLE frames the problem of cost and effectiveness in AmericaOs public schooling system, and provides a strategy to address it. It argues something that many education professionals and policy makers have come to believe but rarely mention: That this countryOs system of K-12 schooling is not sustainable and is becoming a poorer value each year that goes by. It argues for improving the cost and effectiveness of public schooling through a strategy of innovation that targets productivity. Addressing the question how to do this, the book provides policy recommendations to the state, district, and federal levels. In a final chapter it outlines uncommon strategies for overcoming some of the most difficult political, practical, and structural roadblocks to improvement.
McDonald recognizes the central importance of innovation in the design of schools…The right policies are critical to the design of our education systems for the 21st century.