The Far Side of Educational Reform

📖 The Scoop

It is skepticism and suspicion the decade from the middle of the 1960s through the for an excessively idealistic and even dangerously end of the 1970s was in many respects a Golden Age ideological generation, polluted by progressive teaching of teacher professional autonomy. [...] Within the context of a strong padded by their benefits, and made comfortable and economy and demographic shortages of teachers, complacent by the perks of seniority and the declining there was optimism, expansion and innovation. [...] Disillusioned with the extremes 2007, p. 32) on teachers and school leaders in the push and unfulfilled promises of the First and Second to improve learning in all schools, and especially those Ways, Third Way thinkers and leaders described a new in the most challenging circumstances. [...] Michael Fullan Strictly speaking, though, the OECD concentrates (2009), Special Education Advisor to the Premier of not on the whole of Canada but on just the province Ontario and also author of the Preface to the McKinsey of Ontario. [...] Whatever the general merits of the argument about A second example comes from Marc Tucker's (2011) teacher compensation, there is nothing in the evidence Standing On the Shoulders of Giants, written for the of international comparisons reviewed in this document National Council on Education and the Economy that supports the view that young teachers are in the US.

Genre: Education / Reference (fancy, right?)