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Unsustainable : A Strategy for Making Public Schooling More Productive, Effective, and Affordable
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UNSUSTAINABLE frames the problem of cost and effectiveness in America's public schooling system, and provides a strategy to address it.
It argues something that many education professionals and policy makers have come to believe but rarely mention: That this country's system of K-12 schooling is not sustainable and is becoming a poorer value each year that goes by. It argues for improving the cost and effectiveness of public schooling through a strategy of innovation that targets productivity. Addressing the question how to do this, the book provides policy recommendations to the state, district, and federal levels. In a final chapter it outlines uncommon strategies for overcoming some of the most difficult political, practical, and structural roadblocks to improvement.This item is Non-Returnable
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- ISBN-13: 9781607093640
- ISBN-10: 1607093642
- Publisher: R & L Education
- Publish Date: February 2011
- Dimensions: 9.21 x 6.14 x 0.38 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.82 pounds
- Page Count: 130
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