ent Inadequacy ; Power and Public Education. The Presence of Power in Education ; The Rationale for the Future of US Public Education ; Power: Abuse and Potential of a Steady State ; The Minor Leagues: Purpose, Power, and Education ; Why the Original Power of Education Is Vulnerable ; The "What," "Who," and "Why" of Power in Education Power and "I Identify as . . ." Statements ; Avoiding the Absolutes: Power + Corruption ; Freedom: The Original Power of Education. The Eye of the Beholder : an Unavoidable Barrier. This Search and Its Barriers ; The Perspectives and Publics of Contemporary US Public Education ; Major Perspectives about US Public Education ; Two Publics in US Public Education ; Barriers Arise Where None Should Exist ; Taking This Search beyond the Eye of the Beholder ; A Barrier Within : the tyranny of either/Or. The Synergy of Struggle ; The TEO Barrier: School Attached or School Detached ; Dismantling the Tyranny of Either/Or - Confronting the Barrier of Conventional Wisdom. The Authority of Conventional Wisdom ; The Baleful State of Educational Adequacy ; How Educational Adequacy Becomes Conventional Wisdom ; Educational Adequacy: A Dead End ; Reconsidering Educational Adequacy - The Measurement Barrier in US Public Education. I-P-O and Measurement: Standardized Testing ; Measurement and Its Misnomers ; The Fog of Certainty ; Measurement and the Illusion Called Gap-Gazing ; The Case for Effective Evaluation ; The End of Measurem ent Inadequacy ; Power and Public Education. The Presence of Power in Education ; The Rationale for the Future of US Public Education ; Power: Abuse and Potential of a Steady State ; The Minor Leagues: Purpose, Power, and Education ; Why the Original Power of Education Is Vulnerable ; The "What," "Who," and "Why" of Power in Education Power and "I Identify as . . ." Statements ; Avoiding the Absolutes: Power + Corruption ; Freedom: The Original Power of Education. Dynamic Instruction : Act I -- function, Evaluation, Precursors. Setting the Stage for Dynamic Instruction ; Dynamic Instruction ; Act I: Exeunt All - Dynamic Instruction : Act II -- Student Engagement. Student Engagement and Satisfactory Quality ;Pedagogical Agency ; Languaging and Student Engagement ; The Reviews Are In: Dynamic Instruction - Policy and Idiocy in US Public Education. The Idiocy of Contemporary Educational Policy ; The Wreck of the Good Ship Educational Policy - Locally Sourced Policy - Removing Idiocy from the Policy Menu - Common Ground: Policy for the good Public School - Recovering the "public" of US Education. The Shared Circumstance of "public" in Education ; Common Ground "public" - Weaving Educational Adequacy and the Good Public School. Transforming Educational Adequacy ; Commitments About Comprehensive Public Education ; Choices, Weaving, and Philosophy ; The Good Public School: Indicators and Objectives - Implications from this Search for Educational Adequacy. The Second Implication ; The Third Implication ; The Fourth Implication ; The Fifth Implication ; The Sixth Implication ; Learning from the Implications of this Search - Student Futures and Comprehensive Public Education. We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us ; The Benchmarks for 21CPE ; Promises Empower 21CPE ; Dealing with the "If" of 21CPE ; Welcome to the Good Public School.
Summary:
"Mired in an archaic purpose, American schools are inhibited by policies tethered to high minimum quality, the nation's definition of educational adequacy. This book deconstructs the barriers that obstruct the future: contemporary public education. This search uncovers the necessities for transforming educational adequacy for all US students"-- Provided by publisher.
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