Duck and Cover

Confronting and Correcting Dubious Practices in Education

Rick Ginsberg, Yong Zhao (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

192 Seiten

2023
Teachers' College Press (Verlag)
978-0-8077-6791-7 (ISBN)

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Explores a wide range of what the authors label ‘duck and cover’ policies - ideas that may have started for good reasons but whose usefulness has declined over time, ideas that may lack sound theoretical foundations or long-term evidence, ideas that violate basic logic and reasoning or cause serious and proven damage.

In the 1950s and 1960s, students practiced ducking under their desks in case of an atomic bomb attack. We know that this was silly and provided no protection and many school practices that are popular today are equally silly. This book explores a wide range of what the authors label “duck and cover” policies—ideas that may have started for good reasons but whose usefulness has declined over time, ideas that may lack sound theoretical foundations or long-term evidence, ideas that violate basic logic and reasoning or cause serious and proven damage. Ginsberg and Zhao explore how and why these policies were adopted, along with the underlying factors that push school leaders to maintain them. They also offer recommendations for reconsidering, replacing, or just removing these dubious strategies from practice. Topics include standardized testing, kindergarten readiness, college and career readiness, social and emotional learning, teaching evaluations, class size, professional development, time management, and much more. Duck and Cover will help readers think about their schools’ policies and practices in new ways, encouraging ongoing consideration and feedback about what actually works.

Book Features:

Invites K–12 educational policymakers, researchers, and practitioners to question the effectiveness of everyday practices.
Shows that some commonly practiced and even sacred beliefs in education are not scientifically sound or even logical.
Points to actions that leaders can take to remove, reconsider, or revise detrimental practices—a duck-and-cover audit guide with questions readers can use to examine what they do.

Rick Ginsberg is dean of the School of Education and Human Sciences, The University of Kansas. Yong Zhao is a Foundation Distinguished Professor in the School of Education and Human Sciences at The University of Kansas.

Contents

Acknowledgments v

Introduction 1

Part I: DREAMS, FANTASIES, AND NIGHTMARES

1. Kindergarten Readiness 13

2. College and Career Readiness 20

3. Reading Proficiency by 3rd Grade 27

4. The Achievement Gap 34

5. Social and Emotional Learning 41

6. Foreign-Language Instruction 52

7. Educational Technology 60

Part II: OPERATIONAL BUGABOOS

8. Professional Development 71

9. Class Size 78

10. Time 85

11. Dress and Grooming Codes 93

12. Teacher Evaluation 99

13. Gifted and Talented and Exceptional Education 105

Part III: SYSTEMIC AND ANALYTIC CONUNDRUMS

14. State Standardized Testing 115

15. Governance by School Board 123

16. How Teachers Are Paid 131

17. Meta-Analysis 141

Conclusion 149

References 157

Index 180

About the Authors 185

Erscheinungsdatum	17.05.2023
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	162 x 235 mm
Gewicht	381 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Bildungstheorie
ISBN-10	0-8077-6791-3 / 0807767913
ISBN-13	978-0-8077-6791-7 / 9780807767917
Zustand	Neuware