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Common sense education : from common core to ESSA and beyond
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The 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has again changed education for public schools and communities. Common Core is now optional and the role of Secretary of Education has been...
The 2015 passage of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) has again changed education for public schools and communities. Common Core is now optional and the role of Secretary of Education has been limited by no longer incentivizing states, as done under Common Core. This book analyzes the new direction today's schools must pursue for student learning and their success beyond high school.
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- Creator
- Ernest J. Zarra
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, 2016
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (195 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781475825121, 9781475825107, 9781475825114, 1475825129, 1475825110, 1475825102
- OCLC
- ocn946160698, ocn956647630
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
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- Contents; List of Tables; Foreword; Preface; Reasons for Writing This Book; Politics and Education; Arrogance or Common Sense?; Framing the Discourse; Why This Book Is Important; Inspiration for This Book; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Structure of the Book; 1 Why Replace Common Core?; Chapter Overview; The Theoretical and the Ideological; Common Core Is Dead; Long Live Common Core; Reality and the Data; A Sample of Ten States; Summary of English Language Arts Data; English Language Arts Dumbed Down under Common Core; Summary of Mathematics Data
- Mathematics Dumbed Down under Common CoreCommon Core Mathematics Inadequacies; Handwriting on the Wall; Is Rigor Really the Answer?; The Tide Is Turning; Executive Outreach, or Broken Laws?; Bringing Back a Little Common Sense; 2 The ESSA; Chapter Overview; Every Student Now Succeeds; Things Do Not Add Up; The ESSA: America's Newest Alphabet Program; ESSA Highlights; A Watchful Eye; Three Basic Errors of Common Core; Bipartisan Efforts; Common Sense or Washington Wisdom?; 3 The Right Direction for Today's Schools; Chapter Overview; Returning Common Sense to American Education
- Stepping Back from the EdgeCivic Education Is the Right Direction; Moral Purpose Is the Right Direction; Focusing on Student Academic Needs, Passions, Skills, and Interests Is the Right Direction; The Direction of American Education: A Survey of Attitudes and Opinions of Educators and Parents; A Sensible Direction; 4 Twenty-First-Century Teacher Excellence; Chapter Overview; Expectations of Excellence; Is Excellence Attainable Today?; Excellent Teachers Are Leaving Their Classrooms; Teacher Shortages; Rethinking Excellence for the Twenty-First Century; Developing Excellence
- Teachers as Moral Practitioners5 Twenty-First-Century Teacher Preparation; Chapter Overview; Filling the Classrooms; Excellence in the Education Profession; Developing Community; Supporting Excellence; The Value of Twenty-First-Century Teacher Excellence; Dual Credit Teachers; Evaluating Teachers; Important Traits of Twenty-First-Century Teachers; 6 Twenty-First-Century Schools; Chapter Overview; Are We Listening?; Is Public Education Too Large to Succeed?; The Best Middle Schools in America; Focusing on Secondary Education; Next-Generation High Schools; The Real World
- Educational Teach-nologyExciting Twenty-First-Century High Schools; A Suggested Conceptual Framework for High Schools; 7 Graduating Twenty-First-Century Students; Chapter Overview; Graduation Requirements; Are Test Scores Really Reliable?; What Is Being Measured?; Testing Apples with Oranges; Culture Is in the Way; Special Needs Students and Testing; Innovative Programs; Career and Technical Education and Alternate Diplomas; Equity in Opportunity and Access; Tuition-Free Community College; Minority Achievement in Public High Schools; Studying the Problem; Next Steps; Notes; About the Author