Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 214
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4758-1770-6 • Hardback • March 2015 • $93.00 • (£72.00)
978-1-4758-1771-3 • Paperback • March 2015 • $51.00 • (£39.00)
978-1-4758-1772-0 • eBook • March 2015 • $48.50 • (£37.00)
Eldon “Cap” Lee attended Eastern Michigan University and after many years of struggle and a short campus career in rock and roll to support his education, he decided to go to classes and settled into the teaching profession. From the moment he started teaching at a small Catholic school in Michigan, he knew the rules had to be changed. He then travelled to Wisconsin to join the teaching staff at Milwaukee Public Schools. There he earned his master’s degree at Cardinal Stritch College. After fifteen years of complete enjoyment he left teaching to be a school administrator, climbing the ladder of success only to yearn for the good old days surrounded by more kids than adults.
Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter OneCommon Core: Changing it Forward
Chapter TwoReconstructing the Educational Design
Chapter ThreeForaging the Pathway to Success
Chapter FourHigher Level Achievement: Teaching the Whole Child
Chapter FiveDe-Coupling the Testing Debacle
Chapter SixA Time for Action!
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Moving us away from a fail/pass, test-based system, Lee dares us to imagine schools that incorporate hands-on, proficiency-based curriculum that will propel students into being lifelong learners who are prepared to meet future challenges.
— Randi Weingarten, President, American Federation of Teachers, AFL-CIO
Eldon "Cap" Lee has a unique way of poking holes in common treatments of schooling and reform that makes everyone within a moderate distance of his sphere take pause. With this book, Cap cautions us to take stock of Common Core's impact....not simply its intent. He challenges us to reconcile our philosophy with practice so that the phenomenon of high standards is a matter of application and not just one of rhetoric.
— Angela Dye, PhD, CEO/Senior Consultant, PBS Development, LLC
As I read this book I thought so much of the Mc Donough #15 Creative Arts School that my son attended in New Orleans in the 1990’s. This school and its concept no longer exist, however, if New Orleans wants real reform they would revisit that school as well as utilize the concepts in this book instead of forcing test driven reform.
It’s a great book!
— Karran Harper Royal, Education Advocate, New Orleans