A01=Howard Good
Author_Howard Good
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Product details
- ISBN 9781578865352
- Weight: 150g
- Dimensions: 140 x 217mm
- Publication Date: 13 Nov 2006
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In Mis-Education in Schools: Beyond the Slogans and Double-Talk, Howard Good uses his experiences as a parent, teacher, and school board member to explore what's gone wrong with education and how to make it right. He takes the reader inside classrooms, locker rooms, school board meetings, and parent-teacher conferences to discover how our children are being educated -or, more often than not, miseducated. Good demonstrates that despite the "children first" rhetoric of educators, students are often ill served by teachers, principals, guidance counselors, coaches, and school boards. Readers will be challenged by Good's candid perspective and engaged by his energetic prose. Mis-Education in Schools isn't just another education book. It cuts through the double talk that characterizes so much of the debate over education today, exposing the troubling gap between what schools preach and what they actually practice.
Howard Good is coordinator of the journalism program at SUNY New Paltz and former president of the Highland (New York) school board. A frequent contributor to American School Board Journal, Education Week, and Teacher Magazine, he is the author of eleven previous books including Educated Guess: A School Board Member Reflects, The Theory of Oz: Rediscovering the Aims of Education, and Inside the Board Room: Reflections of a Former School Board Member all published by Rowman & Littlefield Education.
