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Assessing What Really Matters in Schools
Newell, Ronald J.; Ryzin, Mark J. Van
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Description for Assessing What Really Matters in Schools
Hardback. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JNC; JNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 149 x 14. Weight in Grams: 281.
Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education—including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches—have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning. The Hope Study was created to discover whether a radically different learning environment would achieve different outcomes. In detailing the outcome of the Hope Study, Assessing What Really Matters in Schools gives hope to innovative and progressive schools, to new and different accountability systems, while changing the conversation from an achievement discourse to a human development discourse. ... Read more
Since the 1960s, efforts to reform education—including various curricular changes, reading approaches, teacher preparation, money for the disadvantaged, and different instructional approaches—have failed to bring about true systemic change because the reforms fail to deal with a different definition of learning. The Hope Study was created to discover whether a radically different learning environment would achieve different outcomes. In detailing the outcome of the Hope Study, Assessing What Really Matters in Schools gives hope to innovative and progressive schools, to new and different accountability systems, while changing the conversation from an achievement discourse to a human development discourse. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781578869688
SKU
V9781578869688
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99-15
About Newell, Ronald J.; Ryzin, Mark J. Van
Ronald J. Newell serves as the Learning Program and Evaluation Director for EdVisions Schools. Mark J. Van Ryzin is Research Assistant at the Institute for Child Development at the University of Minnesota.
Reviews for Assessing What Really Matters in Schools
To achieve authentic academic success for more students, we need schools that are developed around adolescent needs and interests in belonging, being competent, and being responsibly free. Here is such a powerful, insightful perspective.
Walter Enloe, coauthor of Project Circles and Learning Circles and former lead teacher and principal of the Paideia School and Hiroshima International School This book ... Read more
Walter Enloe, coauthor of Project Circles and Learning Circles and former lead teacher and principal of the Paideia School and Hiroshima International School This book ... Read more