{"product_id":"education-is-upsidedown-9781475809947","title":"Education Is UpsideDown","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEducation 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTABLE 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","brand":"Rowman \u0026 Littlefield","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040161366359,"sku":"9781475809947","price":33.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781475809947.jpg?v=1750945922","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/education-is-upsidedown-9781475809947","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}