Publication date:
16 October 2010Length of book:
128 pagesPublisher
R&L EducationDimensions:
228x148mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9781607097044
In the United States, 30 percent of students drop out of school prior to graduation. Unrest is evidenced as stakeholders in education wrestle concurrently with financial restraints, changing student demographics, and escalating accountability expectations for achievement.
Patricia Anne Duncan Parrish's more than three decades of training and experience in schools in this nation have resulted in onsite observations, research-based premises, and quantitative recommendations for a step-by-step realignment of the focus of public education—the education of each student for contributory productivity in the international marketplace of the twenty-first century. The reader of A Wake Up Call for Schools reaps definitive strategies for prekindergarten through university level classrooms, for team building and professional development, for campus administration, for counseling and guidance, for central office administration, and for the boardroom to find the way again to a no-excuses, child-centered approach to public education.
Patricia Anne Duncan Parrish's more than three decades of training and experience in schools in this nation have resulted in onsite observations, research-based premises, and quantitative recommendations for a step-by-step realignment of the focus of public education—the education of each student for contributory productivity in the international marketplace of the twenty-first century. The reader of A Wake Up Call for Schools reaps definitive strategies for prekindergarten through university level classrooms, for team building and professional development, for campus administration, for counseling and guidance, for central office administration, and for the boardroom to find the way again to a no-excuses, child-centered approach to public education.
A Wake Up Call for Schools: A New Order in Public Education is an inspirational call to action. It prompts the educational community to more intentionally and proactively act upon a core value that underlies the United States educational system that all children can succeed in school and life. It fits well with the emphasis in current educational policy reform agendas to recognize that teacher effectiveness is a key lever to improve student outcomes. The personal autobiographical character of this book lends tremendous credibility, compassion, and depth to the advice proffered by Patricia Anne Duncan Parrish. The reader cannot help but be moved by the wealth of real-life illustrations that demonstrate what happens in the day-to-day life of students, educators and school administrators. These illustrations marry the heart and science of the educational process and provide the foundation for the book's tenets about what needs to change in order to close the achievement gap.