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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Berliner, David C. Manufactured crisis. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1995 (OCoLC)624385297 Online version: Berliner, David C. Manufactured crisis. Reading, Mass. : Addison-Wesley, c1995 (OCoLC)631586606 |
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| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
David C Berliner; Bruce J Biddle |
| ISBN: | 0201409577 9780201409574 |
| OCLC Number: | 31938522 |
| Description: | xiii, 414 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Thinking about education in a different way -- Myths about achievement and aptitude -- Other myths about American schools -- Why now? -- Poor ideas for reform -- Real problems of American education -- Toward the improvement of education -- Fundamentals of school improvement: research and compassion. |
| Responsibility: | David C. Berliner, Bruce J. Biddle. |
Abstract:
In The Manufactured Crisis, two prominent scholars, prize-winning educational psychologist David C. Berliner and leading social psychologist Bruce J. Biddle, fight back with the good news. They debunk a whole series of familiar but untrue statistics about public schools - that SAT scores have been dropping, when for many groups they are in fact rising; that illiteracy is up, when in fact the numbers have been skewed because schools are now educating the traditionally disenfranchised in ever larger numbers; that investments in public education do not pay off when, in fact, they lead to greater student achievements and life earnings; that private schools are inherently better than public schools when, in fact, the evidence does not support this charge.
Berliner and Biddle tear through these and other sensational myths to give the reader an honest look at public education in America and the misguided, often tragic proposals that critics have urged for correcting these fictive problems. In addition, they expose and offer solutions to the real problems American public schools face today, schools that continue to provide an increasingly diverse citizenry with the opportunity to better their lives.
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