Class Warfare - Focus on Good Students Is Ruining SchoolsPevná vazba
With budget cuts looming every year, administrators and union leaders find themselves in a never-ending game of promoting how good their school is and why budget cuts will derail their ongoing…
Specifikacia Class Warfare - Focus on Good Students Is Ruining SchoolsPevná vazba
With budget cuts looming every year, administrators and union leaders find themselves in a never-ending game of promoting how good their school is and why budget cuts will derail their ongoing success. The vehicle they choose for this ongoing self-promotion is what William Fibkins calls the "dazzle" approach, which focuses only on "good news." Overtime administrators and staff often come to believe the positive reviews of the good news process and overlook or abandon those students who don't make good news but instead act out, fail, cause trouble and give the school a bad name. These are the "bad news" kids, and their lives are not newsworthy. This book is about the unintended consequences that can occur when the "good news" process becomes heavily embedded in school life-a process that creates two different worlds in a school community that often prides itself on fostering unity and