Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 152
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Trim: 6⅜ x 9⅜
978-1-4758-2919-8 • Hardback • August 2016 • $59.00 • (£45.00)
978-1-4758-2920-4 • Paperback • August 2016 • $30.00 • (£22.99)
978-1-4758-2921-1 • eBook • August 2016 • $28.50 • (£21.99)
Evonne Espey Rogers has served as an educator in three states: Pennsylvania, Maryland, and California. Having spent her entire life in and around schools, she cares deeply about teaching and learning. Visit her online: www.evonnerogers.net | www.facebook.com/Schools4Learning.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter One: “Home” School
Chapter Two: The Kindergarten Experiment
Chapter Three: Eight Years of This?
Chapter Four: Neighborhoods – A Lost Oasis
Chapter Five: School DAZE
Chapter Six: Schools of Education
Chapter Seven: Leadership Lessons
Chapter Eight: Exposing the Truth
Chapter Nine: Voices from the Field
Chapter Ten: Out of the Box
Chapter Eleven: Ten “UN” commandments (Part 1)
Chapter Twelve: Ten “UN” commandments (Part 2)
Chapter Thirteen: The Recovery Process
Conclusion: Finding Our Moral Compass
Bibliography
About the Author
Index
Evonne Espey Rogers has penned a thoughtful, very personal, and highly readable book that provides a broad critique of American schooling and an energetic call for change. She calls out the bureaucracy and stale hierarchies that stifle learning today and advocates a new paradigm that emphasizes choices, options, individualization, and grassroots participation. Rogers has delivered a timely and provocative volume.
— Frederick Hess, author of Letters to a Young Education Reformer; director of education policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute
This book is unlike many other critiques of the education system because it dares to go into detail about the day to day experiences that children have in school. It is clearly a critique from someone who has been an insider and who knows why and how things must change.
— Jerry Mintz, director, Alternative Education Resource Organization (AERO)
Evonne Rogers is a major league player in the field of education. From teacher to leadership administrative positions in major school districts, she has served all with great distinction and applause. When she states, “Schooling is what is done to us – becoming educated is something we do ourselves,” should tip off the reader that they have just begun reading a gold mine clarifying the educational process.
— Les Nuckolls, author, Fulbright Scholar, retired school principal and former superintendent, U.S. Peace Corps Teacher Training Centers Worldwide
As one who has also worked in the educational field all of my life, I found myself wholeheartedly agreeing out loud while reading this book. Learning Unleashed rings importantly true on many levels.
— Charles Jones, retired school district superintendent