Description
Book SynopsisChanges to Improve Schools is a book about educational reform. Richard Garrett has spent ten years researching the U.S. K-12 system to find things in need of improvements. The book has 17 chapters that cover a wide range of topics such as the performance of American students, classroom discipline, and apprehensions younger graduates face when deciding to pursue educational fields.
Trade ReviewRichard Garrett's proposals to reform public education are data-driven and supported by the testimony of public-school teachers, administrators, education scholars, and experts in the field. There is no doubt that the system needs reform in many ways. Garrett's book exposes the root causes of its failures and provides 22 workable solutions.
-- Jeff Rasley, Author of multiple books and President, Scientech Foundation of Indiana
Richard Garrett presents a blueprint of 22 workable pillars that might be able to hold up America's, top-heavy, and collapsing educational structure. These twenty-two pillars are reinforced by scholars, teachers, and common sense. Policymakers should read Garrett's blueprint, and enact his advice, before the collapse gets any worse.
-- Chris Edwards, Ed.D, current high school teacher and author of "Self-Taught, Moving from a Seat-Time Model to a Mastery-Learning Model."
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
1 Does the U.S. Have National Goals?
2US Students Are Not as Good as We Think
3 When Did Things Begin to Go Bad?
4 Teachers, The Vital Ingredient
5 220 Precious Minutes
6 Discipline Issues Are a Major Problem
7The Success Equation for Children
8How Should Schools Be Organized?
9Learning to Read
10When Should Formal Education Begin?
11Who’s Going to Fix It?
12 Legal Issues - The Threat of Lawsuits Weighs Heavy
13Labor Unions
14The Massachusetts Miracle and the Maryland Commission
15 Overhead, A Constant Threat
16National Impact
17 What Changes Must be Made to Reform the System?
End Notes
Appendix 1 Introduction to Website
Index
