Choosing the Right Educational Path for Your Child: What Are the Options?
| Edited by Paula J. Carreiro and Eileen Shields-West |
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Rowman & Littlefield Education |
ALSO OF INTEREST:
The Educational Morass: Overcoming the Stalemate in American Education By Myron Lieberman The School Choice Hoax: Fixing America's Schools Ronald G. Corwin and E. Joseph Schneider Foreword by James McPartland The School Choice Wars John Merrifield |
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"If the proverbial visitor from Mars or Venus wanted the scoop on the gamut of American schools, I'd recommend this book. The contributors give a rich portrait of contemporary educational choices."—Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education
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New understandings of learning and the brain, greater appreciation of the impact of culture on learners, and the differing values and expectations of families have created an educational environment ripe for expanded school choice. The result has been a rapid and little understood expansion of pre-collegiate educational opportunities. For parents anxious to find the best fit for their children, the growth in choice has been both a boon and a challenge.
Choosing the Right Educational Path for Your Child seeks to reveal the various school designs, from public to private, from secular to religious, and from progressive to conservative. The mission assumptions, the economic models, and the pedagogical practices of each are examined. With chapters from leading experts from a variety of educational paths, readers will gain a thorough understanding of the ever-changing landscape of American education in the 21st Century.
About the Editors
Paula J. Carreiro is Head of School, Beauvoir, The National Cathedral Elementary School (Washington, DC)
Eileen Shields-West is a freelance journalist/writer and former San Francisco bureau chief for TIME.
