At a time when standardized testing businesses are raking in huge profits, when many schools are struggling, and students and educators everywhere are suffering under the strain, Ken Robinson argues for an end to our outmoded industrial educational system. He proposes instead a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on today's unprecedented technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and...

The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In their latest and most important collaboration, renowned educators Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan speak out against policies that result in a teaching force that is inexperienced, inexpensive, and exhausted in short order. These two international authorities—who know teaching and leadership inside out—set out a groundbreaking new agenda to transform the future of teaching...

The United States is known as a world leader in innovation, boasting brilliant thinkers and trendsetting companies, but that status is at grave risk. American children are well outside the top-ten international student rankings in reading, science, and math; those rankings--not to mention the nation's position of leadership on everything from the economy to the military to issues of moral authority--will continue to plummet unless we take dramatic...

In Learn like a pirate, teachers will discover practical strategies for creating a student-led classroom in which students are inspired and empowered to take charge of their learning experience.--Back cover.

With all that we know about how students learn, the nature of the world they will face after graduation, and the educational inequities that have existed for centuries, maintaining a traditional, one-size-fits-all approach to teaching and learning is tantamount to instructional malpractice. International security, the success of global economies, and sustainability as a global society all depend on the success of our education system in the years...

In Deeper Learning, education strategist Monica R. Martinex and sociologist Dennis McGrath take us inside eight schools that have set out to transform the experience of learning. In these schools, we meet teachers and students who show us just what "Deeper Learning" looks like. The eight diverse schools featured are: MC2 STEM High School in Cleveland, Ohio, Impact Academy of Arts & Technology in Hayward, California, Science Leadership Academy in Philadelphia,...

In Pyramid of Behavior Interventions, the authors ask educators to commit to proactively meeting the behavioral as well as academic needs of their students. Research on student behavior, response to intervention, and professional learning communities inform the practical strategies teachers and school leaders can use to create superior school and classroom climates and cultures in which learning is primed to occur. To avoid frustration, confusion,...

Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement. Yet something is missing in the current focus on accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress. If schools continue to focus the conversation on rigor and accountability and ignore more human elements of education, many students may miss out on opportunities to discover the richness of individual exploration that...

An award-winning professor and an accomplished educator, Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine take us beyond the hype of reform and inside some of America's most innovative classrooms to show what is working--and what isn't. In a world where test scores have been king, this boldly humanistic book offers a rich account of what education can be at its best.--

"Are America's schools little more than cinder-block gulags that spawn vicious cliques and bullying, negate creativity, and true learning and squelch curiosity in their inmates, um, students? Nikhil Goyal, a journalist and activist all of twenty years old whom the Washington Post has dubbed a "future education secretary" and Forbes has named to its 30 Under 30 list, passionately thinks so, and in this book he offers both a scathing indictment of our...