Purchase
Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education
Chris Whittle
The visionary founder of Edison Schools and Channel One shares the hard lessons of life on the front lines of education-and charts a breathtaking new direction for safeguarding the future of our children.
Riverhead
September 2005
288 pages
ISBN: 1594489025
Hardcover
Add to Wish List
Non-Fiction
Imagine that upon your arrival at an airline ticket counter,
you are told that only 65 percent of the flights to your
intended destination actually even arrive. The remainder
crash en route. And, if you are a child of color, or poor,
you are required to fly on special, poorly maintained
planes-of which only 35 percent make it. Sounds crazy, right? But this is exactly the deal that, as a
nation, we are serving up daily to millions of children in
thousands of our public schools. On average, only two-thirds
of American public school children graduate with basic or
above-average math and language skills. And for poor
children and/or children of color, that number is far worse. Faced with a seemingly irremediable situation, fifteen years
ago Chris Whittle decided to take action. The company he
founded, Edison Schools, is now the country's largest
private manager of public schools-usually the toughest
inner-city schools you can imagine. By connecting our
schools to the engine of progress in every other sector of
our society-large-scale research and development-Whittle has
radically improved the performance of hundreds of schools,
bettered the education of hundreds of thousands of students,
and learned some fundamental lessons about how to help
restore our schools-all of them-to the world-class status
that we expect and deserve. In Crash Course, Chris Whittle teaches what he has
discovered about education-how to find and reward
excellence; how to promote and disseminate innovation; and
how to fund a massive renovation of our educational
institutions that is necessary if our children are to
compete successfully in the global economy. Inimitable and visionary in the tradition of the national
bestseller Savage Inequalities by Jonathan Kozol, this is an
extraordinary, groundbreaking book that will change forever
the way we think about public education.
Comments
No comments posted.
Registered users may leave comments.
Log in or register now!
| 
© 2003-2025 off-the-edge.net
all rights reserved Privacy Policy