Tears of a Tiger 6

Tears of a Tiger 6

Minor, Lawanda
ED209-16
Intro to Teaching
5:30-6:45 P.M.
Synopsis Chapter 12
March 16, 2010
Synopsis Chapter 12
“How Should Education Be Reformed?”
Debate about need for reform
The most recent movement to bring about change in U.S. schools grew out of an influential 1983 report by the National Commission on Excellence in Education entitled A Nation At Risk.
The report demanded that this tide be stemmed through a greater focus on the academic achievement of students.
The Commission described what it called a “rising tide of mediocrity” in the schools.
In the twenty-five years since this report was released, some progress has been made toward reforming schools
How much more can or must be made remains open to debate.
Some educators and politicians argue that much more needs to be done to improve U.S. schools are a great social achievement.
Others disagree, stating that U.S. schools are a great social achievement, educating more children to higher levels that the schools supported by any other society in the world.
A number of skeptics believe that the schools- and particularly the public schools- are incapable of being reformed.
A recent government study stated the problem this way: “The education system in the United States may seem to be, and some respects are a chaotic interaction of federal state, and local governments trying to implement sometimes incompatible policies and processes with little central direction.”
Still others all these efforts at change, arguing that “childhood is childhood” and suggesting that schools should provide continuity and stability in a society in constants flux.
A Framework for Educational Reform
Major motivations for reform
One educator captured the views of many when he wrote that a good school respects and keeps in balance the need “to educate the three people” in each...

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