The Importance of Average calls attention to the policies and practices that discriminate against the silent majority of students in the American educational system. Arguments presented emphasize the collateral damage caused to average students by legislative mandates, administr…
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Note on Dale D. Johnson -- Acknowledgments -- Section I Challenging the Audit Culture -- 1 The Sadism of School Reform -- 2 Death by Numbers: The Loss of Humanity in the Age of Audit -- 3 Defending Teacher Educ…
Through conversations in honor of Dale D. Johnson, this book takes a critical view of the monoculture in curriculum and policy that has developed in education with the increase of federal funding and privatization of services for public education, and examines the shift from pub…