Zusatztext "Educational adequacy" is the way that many of our U.S. state constitutions define the government's obligation to public education. Legal decisions over federal or state financial obligations to public schools use this term repeatedly. But educational adequacy has remained a murky! legalistic! and empty term. The authors of Defining the Good School show us that our responsibility for creating the conditions for a "good public school" for every child is the singular task for achieving educational adequacy. Spelling out both the purposes of! and barriers to the good public school! the authors create a compelling vision for comprehensive public education in the 21st century founded on the powerful construct of critical habits of mind. I recommend this book to school leaders and policy-makers at all levels of governance. Informationen zum Autor Jeff Swensson is a veteran educator who has served in public schools throughout the Midwest. He is the co-author or author of six books that focus on instruction, curriculum, leadership, finance, student learning, and contemporary issues in traditional public education. Michael Shaffer spent just over 25 years as an elementary school principal who developed a boys' book club with over 100 boys who would skip recess to hang out with him to talk about books, and a Boys Read section of the library to facilitate the ease of book choice and access for boys. He has traveled all over the country speaking about getting boys to read. Klappentext Mired in an archaic purpose, American schools are inhibited by policies tethered to high minimum quality, the nation's definition of educational adequacy. This book deconstructs the barriers that obstruct the future: contemporary public education. This search uncovers the necessities for transforming educational adequacy for all US students. Zusammenfassung Mired in an archaic purpose, American schools are inhibited by policies tethered to high minimum quality, the nation's definition of educational adequacy. This book deconstructs the barriers that obstruct the future: contemporary public education. This search uncovers the necessities for transforming educational adequacy for all US students. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of Contents Preface Introduction CHAPTER 1. What's the Purpose of Public Education? The Contemporary Purpose of Education At A Loss to Glimpse the Future The More US Education Changes, the More It Stays the Same A Selfie Puts Education's Purpose and Educational Adequacy to the Test A Selfie Reveals. State Authority for Public Education A Diverse Student Population High School Graduation Funding for US Education Parents and Caregivers The Impact of Standardized Testing Contemporary Purpose and Standardized Testing What Do We Have Here? Implications from the Selfie A Picture That Demands at Least a Thousand Words A Future for US Public Education Beginning to Search with the End in Mind CHAPTER 2. True North: The Moral Obligation of Public Education True North and Socialization Socialization and Moral Obligation in Public Education Moral Obligation: One Point of View Moral Obligation: Another Point of View The Troubled History of Moral Obligation The Impact of US History Moral Obligation and the Absence of Critical Habits of Mind The Capacity for Moral Obligation in Public Education Leading-Out Principled Reasoning Fostering Autonomy and Relatedness Interpretations of Moral Obligation Two Imperatives of the Moral Obligation of Public Education Responses to these Imperatives Students and Self-Mastery and Principled Reasoning Choices and the Future of Moral Obligation Moral Obligation and Choices About Student Capacity Mor...

Educational adequacy is the way that many of our U.S. state constitutions define the government's obligation to public education. Legal decisions over federal or state financial obligations to public schools use this term repeatedly. But educational adequacy has remained a murky, legalistic, and empty term. The authors of Defining the Good School show us that our responsibility for creating the conditions for a good public school for every child is the singular task for achieving educational adequacy. Spelling out both the purposes of, and barriers to the good public school, the authors create a compelling vision for comprehensive public education in the 21st century founded on the powerful construct of critical habits of mind. I recommend this book to school leaders and policy-makers at all levels of governance.

Autorentext
Jeff Swensson is a veteran educator who has served in public schools throughout the Midwest. He is the co-author or author of six books that focus on instruction, curriculum, leadership, finance, student learning, and contemporary issues in traditional public education. Michael Shaffer spent just over 25 years as an elementary school principal who developed a boys' book club with over 100 boys who would skip recess to hang out with him to talk about books, and a Boys Read section of the library to facilitate the ease of book choice and access for boys. He has traveled all over the country speaking about getting boys to read.

Klappentext
Mired in an archaic purpose, American schools are inhibited by policies tethered to high minimum quality, the nation's definition of educational adequacy. This book deconstructs the barriers that obstruct the future: contemporary public education. This search uncovers the necessities for transforming educational adequacy for all US students.

Inhalt

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

CHAPTER 1. What's the Purpose of Public Education?

The Contemporary Purpose of Education

At A Loss to Glimpse the Future

The More US Education Changes, the More It Stays the Same

A Selfie Puts Education's Purpose and Educational Adequacy to the Test

A Selfie Reveals.

State Authority for Public Education

A Diverse Student Population

High School Graduation

Funding for US Education

Parents and Caregivers

The Impact of Standardized Testing

Contemporary Purpose and Standardized Testing

What Do We Have Here? Implications from the Selfie

A Picture That Demands at Least a Thousand Words

A Future for US Public Education

Beginning to Search with the End in Mind

CHAPTER 2. True North: The Moral Obligation of Public Education

True North and Socialization

Socialization and Moral Obligation in Public Education

Moral Obligation: One Point of View

Moral Obligation: Another Point of View

The Troubled History of Moral Obligation

The Impact of US History

Moral Obligation and the Absence of Critical Habits of Mind

The Capacity for Moral Obligation in Public Education

Leading-Out Principled Reasoning

Fostering Autonomy and Relatedness

Interpretations of Moral Obligation

Two Imperatives of the Moral Obligation of Public Education

Responses to these Imperatives

Students and Self-Mastery and Principled Reasoning

Choices and the Future of Moral Obligation

Moral Obligation and Choices About Student Capacity

Moral Obligation and Choices About Agency in Public Education

Standing in the Way of Moral Obligation

Precepts of the Moral Obligation of US Public Education

CHAPTER 3. The Eye of the Beholder: An Unavoidable Barrier

This Search and Its Barriers

The Perspectives and Publics of Contemporary US Public Education

History and the Eye of the Beholder

Major Perspectives About US Public Education

Free Market Schooling

Choice + Mechanisms = Competition in the Free Market

In the Free Market Only the Individual Knows Best

To Create the Marketplace Only the Self-Anointed Know Best

Traditional Public Schools

Two Publics in US Public Education

The Public

And the public

Barriers Arise Where None Should Exist

Why Do These Barriers End…