The War Against Excellence: The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools - Hardcover

Yecke, Cheri Pierson

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0275981169 ISBN 13: 9780275981167

Verlag: Praeger, 2003

Inhaltsangabe

Radical activists do not see the American middle school as an organization to impart academic knowledge, but as an instrument through which they can force social change. Yecke, an experienced teacher and administrator, shows how these activists have implemented their plans and endangered the education of all middle school children-especially those who are gifted.

In 1983 A Nation at Risk declared, If an unfriendly foreign power had attempted to impose on America the mediocre educational performance that exists today, we might well have viewed it as an act of war. How did American educators respond? In their quest to establish a more egalitarian society, middle school activists and social reformers made it clear that the middle school was not just a new educational organization, but a means promoting social egalitarianism by coercing gifted students to be like everyone else. This was nothing less than a declaration of war against gifted children.

Yecke shows that the inadequacies of our systems of research and education pose a greater threat to U.S. national security over the next quarter century than any potential conventional war that we might imagine. The achievement of students in other nations now regularly surpasses that of American students, and it will be impossible to reverse this trend within the confines of the contemporary middle school concept. Yecke asserts that it is time for the American public to reject the radical middle school movement before too much damage is done.

Über diesen Titel

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

CHERI PIERSON YECKE is currently the Commissioner of Education for the State of Minnesota. Dr. Yecke was an award-winning public middle school and high school teacher before becoming a member of the Virginia State Board of Education, Deputy Secretary of Education, and Secretary of Education for the Commonwealth. She also served as the Director of Teacher Quality and Public School Choice at the U.S. Department of Education.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Praeger
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0275981169
• ISBN 13: 9780275981167
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 282
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
• Verantwortliche Person: GPSR Kontakt; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Deutschland