Author: M. Night Shyamalan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476716471
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools. Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation he and his wife started once gave college scholarships to promising inner-city students, but Shyamalan realized that these scholarships did nothing to improve education for all the other students in under-performing schools. When he learned that some schools were succeeding with similar student populations, he traveled across the country to find out how they did this and whether these schools had something in common. He eventually learned that there are five keys to closing America’s achievement gap. But just as we must do several things to maintain good health— eat the right foods, exercise regularly, get a good night’s sleep—so too must we use all five keys to turn around our lowest-performing schools. These five keys are used by all the schools that are succeeding, and no schools are succeeding without them. Before he discovered them, Shyamalan investigated some popular reform ideas that proved to be dead ends, such as smaller class size, truculent unions, and merit pay for teachers. He found that the biggest obstacle to school reform is cognitive biases: too many would-be reformers have committed themselves to false solutions. This is a deeply personal book by an unbiased observer determined to find out what works and why so that we as a nation can fulfill our obligation to give every student an opportunity for a good education.
I Got Schooled
Author: M. Night Shyamalan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476716471
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools. Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation he and his wife started once gave college scholarships to promising inner-city students, but Shyamalan realized that these scholarships did nothing to improve education for all the other students in under-performing schools. When he learned that some schools were succeeding with similar student populations, he traveled across the country to find out how they did this and whether these schools had something in common. He eventually learned that there are five keys to closing America’s achievement gap. But just as we must do several things to maintain good health— eat the right foods, exercise regularly, get a good night’s sleep—so too must we use all five keys to turn around our lowest-performing schools. These five keys are used by all the schools that are succeeding, and no schools are succeeding without them. Before he discovered them, Shyamalan investigated some popular reform ideas that proved to be dead ends, such as smaller class size, truculent unions, and merit pay for teachers. He found that the biggest obstacle to school reform is cognitive biases: too many would-be reformers have committed themselves to false solutions. This is a deeply personal book by an unbiased observer determined to find out what works and why so that we as a nation can fulfill our obligation to give every student an opportunity for a good education.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1476716471
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
In this vital book, the famed filmmaker tells how his passion for education reform led him to learn that there are five tested, indispensable keys to transforming America’s underperforming schools. Famed director M. Night Shyamalan has long had a serious interest in education. The foundation he and his wife started once gave college scholarships to promising inner-city students, but Shyamalan realized that these scholarships did nothing to improve education for all the other students in under-performing schools. When he learned that some schools were succeeding with similar student populations, he traveled across the country to find out how they did this and whether these schools had something in common. He eventually learned that there are five keys to closing America’s achievement gap. But just as we must do several things to maintain good health— eat the right foods, exercise regularly, get a good night’s sleep—so too must we use all five keys to turn around our lowest-performing schools. These five keys are used by all the schools that are succeeding, and no schools are succeeding without them. Before he discovered them, Shyamalan investigated some popular reform ideas that proved to be dead ends, such as smaller class size, truculent unions, and merit pay for teachers. He found that the biggest obstacle to school reform is cognitive biases: too many would-be reformers have committed themselves to false solutions. This is a deeply personal book by an unbiased observer determined to find out what works and why so that we as a nation can fulfill our obligation to give every student an opportunity for a good education.
Report of the Committee of Council on Education (England and Wales), with Appendix
Author: Great Britain. Council on Education
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Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Languages : en
Pages : 1014
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Waverly Novels
Japhet in Search of a Father
Author: Frederick Marryat
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Biennial Report
Author: Minnesota. Dept. of Education
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Annual Report of the Common, Superior, Grammar and Training & Model Schools in New Brunswick
Author: New Brunswick. Education Office
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 552
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The Day's Work
Author: Rudyard Kipling
Publisher:
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Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Category : Short stories, English
Languages : en
Pages : 380
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Annual Report of the Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Wisconsin
Author: Wisconsin. Department of Public Instruction
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 480
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Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates
Author: Great Britain. Parliament
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 1120
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Ribblesdale, Or, Lancashire Sixty Years Ago
Author: Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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Languages : en
Pages : 292
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