R&L Education
Pages: 182
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978-1-61048-615-6 • Hardback • May 2012 • $80.00 • (£52.95)
978-1-61048-616-3 • Paperback • May 2012 • $39.00 • (£24.95)
978-1-61048-617-0 • eBook • May 2012 • $37.00 • (£24.95)
Dr. Keen Babbage has 27 years of experience as a middle school and high school teacher and school administrator. He also has 8 years of experience working in advertising for 3 large companies.
Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter 1Everyone
Chapter 2Parents and Guardians
Chapter 3Community Groups
Chapter 4Media
Chapter 5Elected Officials, Candidates for Public Office, Politicians
Chapter 6Voters, Citizens, Taxpayers
Chapter 7The National Government and State Governments
Chapter 8Businesses and Business Advocacy Groups
Chapter 9Students
Chapter 10Former Educators
Chapter 11Current Educators
Chapter 12The Power of Shared School Purpose
Chapter 13The Great Debate – The Reformers Respond
And The Grass Roots Reply
About The Author
Dr. Keen Babbage gets it. We are at a point in history in which aspects of American life, such as economics, political decision making, and education, cannot be decided by bureaucrats. Reform Doesn’t Work is a wonderful grass roots guide as to how we can improve American schools, one school and one student at a time.
— Don McNay, syndicate financial columnist for Huffington Post and author of the best-selling book, “Wealth Without Wall Street"
Tackling educational reform in a straightforward manner, Dr. Keen Babbage, lays the foundation for successful reforms in the classrooms of today—using logic and common sense as his cornerstones! Incorporating these too often overlooked ideas, Dr. Babbage's newest publication, Reform Doesn't Work is sure to become a reform manual for educators at any level.
— Jim Thomas, retired principal, Bryan Station Middle School, Lexington, Kentucky
Finally there is a book whose common sense approach and delineated evidence presents a solution to education reform. Is it political? Religious? No, it’s you! In Reform Doesn't Work, Dr. Keen Babbage implores us to empower every stakeholder—the people that matter in our students' worlds—to cause learning day in and day out. Only then will we have a revolutionary effect on the entire system.
— Amanda Hurley, National Board Certified Teacher