UNSUSTAINABLE
A Strategy for Making Public Schooling More Productive, Effective, and Affordable
By (author) Tim R. McDonald
Publication date:
16 February 2011Length of book:
130 pagesPublisher
R&L EducationDimensions:
247x168mm7x10"
ISBN-13: 9781607093640
UNSUSTAINABLE frames the problem of cost and effectiveness in America’s 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 country’s 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.
It argues something that many education professionals and policy makers have come to believe but rarely mention: That this country’s 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.
…Let's build models of school governance, management, and practice on a new foundation of teacher leadership. Ultimately this gives us the blueprint to restructure our system and dismantle the existing bureaucratic hierarchy.