Education Is Upside-Down Reframing Reform to Focus on the Right Problems [Paperback]

Education Is Upside Down urges readers wishing to improve American Education to more carefully consider the institutions central mission, challenge long-accepted truths of practice, and question current reform efforts and actions.Education Is Upside Down cuts through adjustments being made at technical levels of educational practice and accountability, challenging ideals and philosophies that have powered American Education for most of the last century. This book explains how and why long-standing approaches generate flawed instructional practices, flawed systemic reform efforts, and a fundamental misalignment between the educational institution and the society it is missioned to serve. Education Is Upside Down urges readers wishing to improve American Education to more carefully consider the institutions central mission, challenge long-accepted truths of practice, and question current reform efforts and actions. In full, Education Is Upside Down resists the practitioner-vs.-reformer blame game, seeking ultimately to carefully untanglenot tighten by yanking on any single strandthe long-complicated knot of American Education.TABLE OF CONTENTSAcknowledgmentsChapter 1Of Mismatches and MissionsChapter 2How To Use a FunnelChapter 3The Funnel Tips: A Brief Annotated HistoryChapter 4A Meaningless EngagementChapter 5Building Skyscrapers on SandChapter 6How (Schools Should Help) Children SucceedChapter 7What Gets Measured Gets Done (&but wont necessarily change anything)Chapter 8Outside the Box, But Standing StillChapter 9Too Scattered to MatterChapter 10Righting the Funnel: Issues to Solve, Actions to TakeChapter 11Funnel of the Future: An Audacious Ideal Model and What to Do Locally, Starting TodayChapter 12An Awesome ResponsibilityNotesBibliographyAbout the AuthorEducation Is Upside Down cuts through adjustments being made at technical levels of educational practice and accountability, challenging ideals and philosophies that have powered American Education for most l³&