The Educational Morass: Overcoming the Stalemate in American Education
The Educational Morass is about the ineffectiveness of public education in the United States today and why it is unlikely to achieve significant improvement in the absence of heavy external pressure. The reason for these conclusions and what can be done about it are the core of this book. It is an explanation of why the most popular educational reforms are either misguided or practically impossible to achieve. The book also explains why several reforms which would bring about significant improvement are not under consideration. Although a conservative himself, Lieberman asserts that conservative illusions about public education and about unions and employment issues generally also play a major role in the failure to bring about significant reform.Public education is a highly decentralized public service, buffeted by national, state, and local interests and reported by media that are not up to the task of describing the situation realistically. Despite these negative aspects, Myron Lieberman contends that major reforms are possible, but require different leaders, strategies, and tactics.
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The Educational Morass: Overcoming the Stalemate in American Education
The Educational Morass is about the ineffectiveness of public education in the United States today and why it is unlikely to achieve significant improvement in the absence of heavy external pressure. The reason for these conclusions and what can be done about it are the core of this book. It is an explanation of why the most popular educational reforms are either misguided or practically impossible to achieve. The book also explains why several reforms which would bring about significant improvement are not under consideration. Although a conservative himself, Lieberman asserts that conservative illusions about public education and about unions and employment issues generally also play a major role in the failure to bring about significant reform.Public education is a highly decentralized public service, buffeted by national, state, and local interests and reported by media that are not up to the task of describing the situation realistically. Despite these negative aspects, Myron Lieberman contends that major reforms are possible, but require different leaders, strategies, and tactics.
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The Educational Morass: Overcoming the Stalemate in American Education
The Educational Morass is about the ineffectiveness of public education in the United States today and why it is unlikely to achieve significant improvement in the absence of heavy external pressure. The reason for these conclusions and what can be done about it are the core of this book. It is an explanation of why the most popular educational reforms are either misguided or practically impossible to achieve. The book also explains why several reforms which would bring about significant improvement are not under consideration. Although a conservative himself, Lieberman asserts that conservative illusions about public education and about unions and employment issues generally also play a major role in the failure to bring about significant reform.Public education is a highly decentralized public service, buffeted by national, state, and local interests and reported by media that are not up to the task of describing the situation realistically. Despite these negative aspects, Myron Lieberman contends that major reforms are possible, but require different leaders, strategies, and tactics.
Dr. Myron Lieberman is widely regarded internationally as a leading authority on educational policy and practice. In addition to service as a public school teacher, university professor, school board labor negotiator, union leader, legislative consultant in the United States and Canada, and author or coauthor of 18 books and scores of articles in professional and lay media, Dr. Lieberman has been a faculty member at leading universities and speaker on educational employment relations at professional meetings.
Table of Contents
Part 1 Conventional Reforms ReconsideredChapter 2 The Achievement Gap and Other PerennialsChapter 3 Charter SchoolsChapter 4 Educational ResearchChapter 5 Teacher Education and CertificationPart 6 The Real Cost of Teacher EducationPart 7 Teacher Representation: Past, Present, and FutureChapter 8 The Impact of Collective Bargaining in Public EducationChapter 9 Union Power or School Board Weakness?Chapter 10 Individual Representation: Back to the Future?Part 11 School ChoiceChapter 12 The Triumph of the EqualitariansChapter 13 The Strategy and Tactics of School ChoicePart 14 Education's Information SystemChapter 15 Education in the MediaChapter 16 Credence Goods and the Accountability GapPart 17 Appendix: The Public School Establishment
