Schools That Do Too Much Wasting Time and Money in Schools and What We Can All Do About It

by Kralovec, Etta

• ISBN13: 9780807032510
• ISBN10: 0807032514
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-01-05
• Publisher: Beacon Press

Summary

Schools That Do Too Muchargues that American schools systematically misspend their two most precious resources: time and money. From class schedules that fragment students' time to budgets that sink money into dozens of activities-especially sports-that distract from learning, Kralovec shows us how schools over and over try to do too much and end up delivering too little by way of real teaching and learning.

Author Biography

Etta Kralovec was a teacher and professor of education for more than twenty years and is the author of The End of Homework (Beacon /4219-6 / $11.00 pb). She is currently vice president for learning with Training and Development Corporation, in Maine. She lives in Orland, Maine.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
The Fractured School Day: Competing Interests, Competing Priorities	p. 15
Who Could Be against Dental Health?: Defining the Mission of Schooling	p. 35
Counting Costs: The Trap of Incremental Budgeting	p. 47
The Sporting Life in Schools	p. 67
Zero-Based Budgeting: Tool for Reform	p. 83
Restructuring Time, Restructuring Schools: Recommendations for Unburdening Schools	p. 102
The Classroom as Sacred Space	p. 119
Notes	p. 127
Suggested Readings	p. 133
Acknowledgments	p. 137
Index	p. 139
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