Professor Emeritus of Arizona State University and Professor Gene Glass of CU-Boulder聽recently published聽50 Myths & Lies that Threaten America's Public Schools: The Real Crisis in Education. Each chapter offers research-based information to counter聽the most widespread and insidious assumptions about public education today. Three School of Education PhD students in the Educational Foundations, Policy and Practice program area, David Meens, Ryan Pfleger, and 碍补迟测听奥颈濒别测, and one alumnus, , PhD (EFPP, 2013) contributed to the book.
Amazon Book Description:
Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been created and perpetuated in large part by political and economic interests that stand to gain from its destruction. They also expose a rapidly expanding variety of organizations and media that intentionally misrepresent facts. Many of these organizations also suggest that their goal is unbiased service in the public interest when, in fact, they represent narrow political and financial interests. Where appropriate, the authors name the promoters of these deceptions and point out how they are served by encouraging false beliefs.
This provocative book features short essays on important topics to provide every elected representative, school administrator, school board member, teacher, parent, and concerned citizen with much food for thought, as well as reliable knowledge from authoritative sources.
鈥淏erliner and Glass are long-time critics of wrong-headed education reforms.聽50 Myths and Lies聽continues their record of evidence-based truth-telling. Joined by 19 young scholars in identifying 50 of the worst ideas for changing our nation's schools, they are able to sort through the cacophony of today鈥檚 all too often ill-informed debate. Anyone involved in making decisions about today鈥檚 schools should read this book.鈥�
鈥�Linda Darling-Hammond, Charles E. Ducommun Professor of Education, Stanford University
鈥淭his book is true grit. It鈥檚 the gritty reality of hard data. It鈥檚 the irritating grit that makes you shift in your seat. And it鈥檚 the grit that sometimes makes you want to weep. Well argued, well written鈥攚hether you agree or disagree with this book, if you care about the future of public education, you mustn鈥檛 ignore it.鈥�
鈥�Andy Hargreaves, professor, Thomas More Brennan Chair in Education, Lynch School of Education, Boston College
鈥�50 Myths and Lies聽is a powerful defense of public education and a discerning refutation of the reckless misimpressions propagated by a juggernaut of private-sector forces and right-wing intellectuals who would gladly rip apart the legacy of democratic schooling in America. It is a timely and hard-hitting book of scholarly but passionate polemic. The teachers of our children will be grateful.鈥�
鈥�Jonathan Kozol, educator, author of聽Fire in the Ashes
鈥淲hat do you get when two world-class scholars and a team of talented analysts take a hard look at 50 widely held yet unsound beliefs about U.S. public schools? Well, in this instance you get a flat-out masterpiece that, by persuasively blending argument and evidence, blasts those beliefs into oblivion. Required reading? You bet!鈥�
鈥�W. James Popham, professor emeritus, UCLA
David C. Berliner聽is an educational psychologist and bestselling author. He was professor and dean of the Mary Lou Fulton Institute and Graduate School of Education at Arizona State University.聽Gene V. Glass聽is a senior researcher at the National Education Policy Center and a research professor in the School of Education at the 91制片厂国产AV. Their聽Associates聽are the hand-picked leading PhDs and PhDs in training from their respective institutions.
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Related Faculty: Gene V. Glass, Ryan Pfleger, Kathryn E. Wiley