Consensus: Education Reform Is Possible - Softcover

Hayes, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1610488407 ISBN 13: 9781610488402

Publisher: R&L Education, 2013

Synopsis

As we consider the current status of educational reform, it is clear that the United States lacks a clear vision as to how to improve our schools. In the recent past, we have been able to gain support for ideas such as the need for special education programs, free and reduced lunches, pre-school programs, and equal educational opportunities for both boys and girls. While programs such as these were possible because of a national consensus, our challenge today is to agree on the way to move forward. Although it is most obvious in our inability to act on No Child Left Behind, the failure to define a common vision is true of many other issues in the field of education. Without an agreed-upon vision which includes the support of those working in our schools, true reform will be extremely difficult. The purpose of this book is to help the reader understand our differences and to suggest a way that we can reach a consensus on education reform.

About this title

About the Author

William Hayes has been a high school social studies teacher, assistant principal, high school principal, superintendent of schools, adjunct professor, associate professor, and chairman of the Teacher Education Division at Roberts Wesleyan College in Rochester, NY. He is the father of three children and the grandfather of two.

Edition details

• Publisher: R&L Education
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1610488407
• ISBN 13: 9781610488402
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176