Trapped in mediocrity : why our schools aren't world-class and what we can do about it / / Katherine Baird.
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| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | x, 243 p. :; ill. |
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Table of Contents:
- A historical and comparative perspective on the United State's educational system
- Just how low are our educational standards?
- The consequences of low expectations on student effort
- Low standards compromise higher education's mission
- Reduced productivity and increased wage disparities
- Low standards harm those we think are helped
- The tyranny of too many voices or "too many cooks spoil the broth"
- Exit, voice and the "something for everyone" curriculum
- Soft America meets hard America: the perceived high costs and low benefits of high expectations
- Getting from here to there.