Bad Students, Not Bad Schools

Bad Students, Not Bad Schools
Author :
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Total Pages : 318
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781412843188
ISBN-13 : 1412843189
Rating : 4/5 (189 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Bad Students, Not Bad Schools by : Robert Weissberg

Download or read book Bad Students, Not Bad Schools written by Robert Weissberg and published by Transaction Publishers. This book was released on 2011-12-31 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Americans are increasingly alarmed over our nation's educational deficiencies. Though anxieties about schooling are unending, especially with public institutions, these problems are more complex than institutional failure. Expenditures for education have exploded, and far exceed inflation and the rising costs of health care, but academic achievement remains flat. Many students are unable to graduate from high school, let alone obtain a college degree. And if they do make it to college, they are often forced into remedial courses. Why, despite this fiscal extravagance, are educational disappointments so widespread? In Bad Students, Not Bad Schools, Robert Weissberg argues that the answer is something everybody knows to be true but is afraid to say in public America's educational woes too often reflect the demographic mix of students. Schools today are filled with millions of youngsters, too many of whom struggle with the English language or simply have mediocre intellectual ability. Their lackluster performances are probably impervious to the current reform prescriptions regardless of the remedy's ideological derivation. Making matters worse, retention of students in school is embraced as a philosophy even if it impedes the learning of other students. Weissberg argues that most of America's educational woes would vanish if indifferent, troublesome students were permitted to leave when they had absorbed as much as they could learn; they would quickly be replaced by learning-hungry students, including many new immigrants from other countries. American education survives since we import highly intelligent, technically skillful foreigners just as we import oil, but this may not last forever. When educational establishments get serious about world-class mathematics and science, and permit serious students to learn, problems will dissolve. Rewarding the smartest, not spending fortunes in a futile quest to uplift the bottom, should become official policy. This book is a bracing reminder of the risks of political manipulation of education and argues that the measure of policy should be academic achievment.


Bad Students, Not Bad Schools Related Books

Bad Students, Not Bad Schools
Language: en
Pages: 318
Authors: Robert Weissberg
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-12-31 - Publisher: Transaction Publishers

GET EBOOK

Americans are increasingly alarmed over our nation's educational deficiencies. Though anxieties about schooling are unending, especially with public institution
Bad Students, Not Bad Schools
Language: en
Pages: 316
Authors: Robert Weissberg
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-01-22 - Publisher: Routledge

GET EBOOK

Americans are increasingly alarmed over our nation's educational deficiencies. Though anxieties about schooling are unending, especially with public institution
Hope and Despair in the American City
Language: en
Pages: 237
Authors: Gerald Grant
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-03-04 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

GET EBOOK

In 1972, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down a 5–4 verdict in Milliken v. Bradley, thereby blocking the state of Michigan from merging the Detroit public schoo
One Size Does Not Fit All
Language: en
Pages: 146
Authors: Indrek S. Wichman
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-12-31 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

GET EBOOK

Academic success requires talent (ability), which is not equally distributed among students. Almost all American undergraduates hail from K–12 public schools,
Feel-Bad Education
Language: en
Pages: 225
Authors: Alfie Kohn
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-04-05 - Publisher: Beacon Press

GET EBOOK

Mind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices Almost no writer on schools asks us to question our fundamen