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17%OFFFrederick M. Hess - The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday´s Ideas - 9780674055827 - V9780674055827
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The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday´s Ideas

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Description for The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday´s Ideas Hardback. Offering an overview of endless debates over school reform, this title shows that even bitter opponents in debates about how to improve schools agree on much more than they realize. It suggests that uniformity gets in the way of quality, and urges us to create a much wider variety of schools, to meet a greater range of needs for different talents. Num Pages: 304 pages. BIC Classification: JNF; JNL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 25. Weight in Grams: 494.

In this genial and challenging overview of endless debates over school reform, Rick Hess shows that even bitter opponents in debates about how to improve schools agree on much more than they realize—and that much of it must change radically. Cutting through the tangled thickets of right- and left-wing dogma, he clears the ground for transformation of the American school system.

Whatever they think of school vouchers or charter schools, teacher merit pay or bilingual education, most educators and advocates take many other things for granted. The one-teacher–one-classroom model. The professional full-time teacher. Students grouped in age-defined grades. ... Read more

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Product Details

Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
304
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Condition
New
Weight
494g
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674055827
SKU
V9780674055827
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About Frederick M. Hess
Frederick M. Hess is Resident Scholar and Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute and Executive Editor of Education Next.

Reviews for The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers Get Stuck in Yesterday´s Ideas
Half the time I'm agreeing with every word Rick Hess says, and wishing I had said it myself. The other half the time I'm provoked, stimulated, and arguing with him. He's got it both all right and all wrong. Read him, argue with him, take him very seriously.
Deborah Meier, author of In Schools We Trust Rick Hess is ... Read more

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