{"product_id":"after-the-education-wars-how-smart-schools-upend-the-business-of-reform-hardcover","title":"After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAndrea Gabor\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers. . . . \u003ci\u003eAfter the Education Wars\u003c\/i\u003e helps us to see a better way forward.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Cathy N. Davidson, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAfter the Education Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book that points the way to genuine reform.\"\u003cbr\u003e-Diane Ravitch, author of \u003cem\u003eReign of Error\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Death and Life of the Great American School System\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bestselling business journalist critiques the top-down approach of popular education reforms and profiles the unexpected success of schools embracing a nimbler, more democratic entrepreneurialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. \u003cem\u003eAfter the Education Wars\u003c\/em\u003e explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today's reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and-contrary to popular belief-at odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese rich, detailed stories of real reform in action illustrate how enduring change must be deeply collaborative and relentlessly focused on improvement from the grass roots up-lessons also learned from both the open-source software and quality movements. The good news is that solutions born of this philosophy are all around us: from Brockton, Massachusetts, where the state's once-failing largest high school now sends most graduates to college, to Leander, Texas, a large district where school improvement, spurred by the ideas of quality guru W. Edwards Deming, has become a way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA welcome exception to the doom-and-gloom canon of education reform, \u003cem\u003eAfter the Education Wars\u003c\/em\u003e makes clear that what's needed is not more grand ideas, but practical and informed ways to grow the best ones that are already transforming schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAndrea Gabor\u003c\/b\u003e, the Bloomberg chair of business journalism at Baruch College\/CUNY, is a former staff writer and editor at \u003cem\u003eU.S. News \u0026amp; World Report\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBusinessweek\u003c\/em\u003e. Gabor has written for the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eSmithsonian\u003c\/em\u003e magazine, \u003cem\u003eHarvard Business Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eFortune\u003c\/em\u003e, and the \u003cem\u003eVillage Voice\u003c\/em\u003e. She lives in New York City.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 9.3 x 6.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 12, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50337712734445,"sku":"9781620971994","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0020\/8918\/9441\/files\/T32eeh3Ds09781620971994.webp?v=1785065079","url":"https:\/\/www.webster.direct\/en-au\/products\/after-the-education-wars-how-smart-schools-upend-the-business-of-reform-hardcover","provider":"Webster.Direct","version":"1.0","type":"link"}