Doomed to Fail: The Built-In Defects of American Education Zoch Paul A.
Since hardly anyone is happy with American schools, it's always open season for school reform with inevitable calls for better teaching, better curriculums, better organization, etc., etc. In these…
Specifikacia Doomed to Fail: The Built-In Defects of American Education Zoch Paul A.
Since hardly anyone is happy with American schools, it's always open season for school reform with inevitable calls for better teaching, better curriculums, better organization, etc., etc. In these continuing exhortations, little attention is paid to the role of the students themselves, the object of the "learning process." In this explosive book, Paul Zoch argues that what America most needs to improve its schools is not necessarily better teachers but a wholesale shift in the way it thinks about who or what creates academic success. The tendency to look to teachers for students' achievement, he maintains, is the cause of low performance. Tracing the development of educational ideas in the United States from the time of William James to the present day, Mr. Zoch shows how they have given the schools an obsessive focus on teachers and their teaching methods while neglecting the
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