Duck and cover : confronting and correcting dubious practices in education
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Duck and cover : confronting and correcting dubious practices in education
Teachers College Press, [2023]
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Summary:"Explore what the authors label educational "duck and cover" policies-ideas that are no longer useful or are not scientifically sound or even logical. The authors offer recommendations for reconsidering, replacing, or just removing these dubious practices. Topics include standardized testing, college and career readiness, social and emotional learning, teaching evaluations, and professional development"-- Provided by publisher
Contents of Works
- Part I: Dreams, fantasies, and nightmares
- Kindergarten readiness
- College and career readiness
- Reading proficiency by 3rd grade
- The achievement gap
- Social and emotional learning
- Foreign language instruction
- Educational technology
- Part II: Operational bugaboos
- Professional development
- Class size
- Time
- Dress and grooming codes
- Teacher evaluation
- Gifted and talented and exceptional education
- Part III: Systemic and analytic conundrums
- State standardized testing
- Governance by school board
- How teachers are paid
- Meta-analysis
- Conclusion