商品簡介
Noted scholar of educational administration Lieberman is convinced the American education system is sinking under its own weight into an unreformable situation. He argues that the special interests operating on behalf of the status quo outweigh in numbers and power those who seek to make American education systems more effective, and that too many of the reforms sought are not suitable anyway. He considers conventional reforms such as efforts to close the achievement gap, run charter schools, conduct research-based practice and upgrade teachers' skills, and compares them to the real cost of public education. He looks at the impact of collective bargaining and unionization in teaching, examines the real story behind movements toward school choice, describes the media's influence in education and delineates the real problems with the accountability gap. In all he finds current reforms questionable and proposes changes to systems and practices from the ground up. Annotation c2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Dr. Myron Lieberman is widely regarded internationally as a leading authority on educational policy and practice. In addition to service as a public school teacher, university professor, school board labor negotiator, union leader, legislative consultant in the United States and Canada, and author or coauthor of 18 books and scores of articles in professional and lay media, Dr. Lieberman has been a faculty member at leading universities and speaker on educational employment relations at professional meetings.
