Synopses & Reviews
It is nice to believe that simple answers can achieve high quality solutions to the dilemmas in American public education. When faced with something as complex as preventing students from falling through the cracks or becoming off track for completing their education, the urge is to oversimplify the problems and the educational profession. Public education is moving in a perilous direction. It appears that just about everyone thinks they know what to prescribe for public education. In reality, we are talking about the development of complicated, individual human beings, and their ability to learn in equitable, healthy ways. The book will help comprehend reasons why children continue to lag behind, and take an in depth look at how to intervene and provide policies and support to help students and teachers succeed. The purpose of this book is to shed more light on the complexities and possibilities of yielding better answers, especially when executing justifiable, equitable change in education.
Synopsis
This book will help comprehend reasons why children continue to lag behind, and take an in depth look at how to intervene and provide policies and support to help students and teachers succeed. The purpose of this book is to shed more light on the complexities and possibilities of yielding better answers, especially when executing justifiable, equitable change in education.
Synopsis
The vast numbers of new educational policies, programs, and practices being implemented as educational reform in American public schools have not been analyzed for short or long-term effectiveness or impact on students and their learning. Not only are conditions for many learners still a concern, new information about conditions for students who are not under-performing informs us that they are falling short of the desired mark. This calls for expert educators, researchers, school leaders, teachers, families, students, and interested others to determine the degree to which policies and practices have a positive impact on student outcomes, and the aims of public education. Using Response to Intervention as an innovative model, The Equity Agenda contributes to filling the void by analyzing the essence of educational reforms for increasing enduring, equitable effectiveness, and improving conditions and teaching and learning for both teachers and students.