The misdirection of education policy : raising questions about school reform / Nancy Avery Dafoe.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 129-133).

Introduction: examples and non-examples -- We're funding the left side of your brain -- "If I didn't write in this journal ..." -- Why aren't schools run like businesses? -- Faulty logic, public discourse -- Tales told by idiots signifying nothing -- Why teacher evaluations tied to tests don't work -- What hurt -- Public education paradigm shifts menu -- Common Core head first -- Why students should read Tolstoy and Faulkner -- Consequences of exclusionary parameters -- Education without the humanities -- What you don't know -- Master teachers in every classroom -- Welcome the subversive -- Insights from the humanities -- Allow every teacher to engineer reform -- The Waste Land revisited -- Creating meaningful, lasting reform -- Convergence of poetry/science: an interdisciplinary approach to teaching and learning -- Raining poets -- The answer is the question.

The Misdirection of Education Policy: Raising Questions about School Reform proposes critically important questions about the wisdom of American public education policy and reform initiatives. Laying out the particulars of three policy strands, creation of STEM curricula/schools, expansion of charter schools/privatizing, and teacher accountability/testing tied to job security. The Misdirection of Education Policy exposes complications, contradictions, and deliberate deceptions in these supposed solutions to very real issues in education.

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