The Future of the American School System
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Rowman & Littlefield
Published:27th Jul '04
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Here, Irving H. Buchen projects the future of public education for the next 25 years. He identifies and examines the major drivers of change, profiles all the critical educational constituencies, and offers a number of common sense solutions to current and subsequent problems. Buchen also provides scenarios of solutions to prove that new approaches are doable and viable. The Future of the American School System will: Identify the major drivers of change, Profile the roles of the major players, Define and offer solutions to the major problems, Express those solutions in scenario form, Pinpoint the rallying points for collective action. This book will be of interest to teachers, administrators, professional staff, school board members, parents, departments and professors of education, and all elected officials.
Irv Buchen represents the most hopeful aspect of education: Teaching that will empower both young and old for our rapidly changing world, which will be very different in the future than the world we now know. Teachers can and must learn to prepare students for the world in which they will be living—not for a world that has largely disappeared. Readers of THE FUTURIST magazine have found his work enormously enlightening. His new book presents the latest thinking of this dynamic educator and futurist. -- Edward Cornish, president, World Future Society, editor of THE FUTURIST magazine, and author of Futuring: The Exploration of the Future
The title promises it all; the book delivers quite a bit. * CHOICE *
Dr. Buchen consistently has kept his critical eye on the future of education for the last two decades. Now with this monumental work he has tapped into the crux of the matter—the whole system, not one piece at a time. The last chapter, which presents solutions to current and future problems, alone is priceless! -- Ron Newell
ISBN: 9781578861354
Dimensions: 226mm x 170mm x 19mm
Weight: 454g
344 pages