The roots of low achievement : where to begin altering them /
This book explains how public education in this country became dysfunctional as a result of the education policies and programs funded by the federal government to address low academic achievement.
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Lanham, Maryland :
Rowman & Littlefield,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- The deteriorating curriculum in American high schools
- What policy makers, educators, and education researchers have examined
- Teachers of minority students in 1966
- Non-school factors influencing low achievement
- What non-education researchers have explored since 1966
- Why philanthropists have wasted money on low-achieving schools
- Why we don't learn from failed or effective policies
- Public deception
- Gap-closing as an educational goal
- How to begin altering the roots of low achievement
- Finale: Altering the roots of low achievement.