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Book SynopsisEducation Is Upside Down cuts through adjustments being made at technical levels of educational practice and accountability, challenging ideals and philosophies that have powered American Education for most of the last century. This book explains how and why long-standing approaches generate flawed instructional practices, flawed systemic reform efforts, and a fundamental misalignment between the educational institution and the society it is missioned to serve. Education Is Upside Down urges readers wishing to improve American Education to more carefully consider the institution's central mission, challenge long-accepted truths of practice, and question current reform efforts and actions. In full, Education Is Upside Down resists the practitioner-vs.-reformer blame game, seeking ultimately to carefully untanglenot tighten by yanking on any single strandthe long-complicated knot of American Education.
Table of ContentsTABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments Chapter 1 Of Mismatches and Missions Chapter 2 How To Use a Funnel Chapter 3 The Funnel Tips: A Brief Annotated History Chapter 4 A Meaningless Engagement Chapter 5 Building Skyscrapers on Sand Chapter 6 How (Schools Should Help) Children Succeed Chapter 7 What Gets Measured Gets Done (…but won’t necessarily change anything) Chapter 8 Outside the Box, But Standing Still Chapter 9 Too Scattered to Matter Chapter 10 Righting the Funnel: Issues to Solve, Actions to Take Chapter 11 Funnel of the Future: An Audacious Ideal Model and What to Do Locally, Starting Today Chapter 12 An Awesome Responsibility Notes Bibliography About the Author
