{"product_id":"after-the-education-wars-andrea-gabor-9781620971994","title":"After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers. . . . \u003ci\u003eAfter the Education Wars\u003c\/i\u003e helps us to see a better way forward.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Cathy N. Davidson, \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eAfter the Education Wars\u003c\/i\u003e is an important book that points the way to genuine reform.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Diane Ravitch, author of \u003cem\u003eReign of Error\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Death and Life of the Great American School System\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA bestselling business journalist critiques the top-down approach of popular education reforms and profiles the unexpected success of schools embracing a nimbler, more democratic entrepreneurialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. \u003cem\u003eAfter the Education Wars\u003c\/em\u003e explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today's reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and--contrary to popular belief--at odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThese rich, detailed stories of real reform in action illustrate how enduring change must be deeply collaborative and relentlessly focused on improvement from the grass roots up--lessons also learned from both the open-source software and quality movements. The good news is that solutions born of this philosophy are all around us: from Brockton, Massachusetts, where the state's once-failing largest high school now sends most graduates to college, to Leander, Texas, a large district where school improvement, spurred by the ideas of quality guru W. Edwards Deming, has become a way of life.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA welcome exception to the doom-and-gloom canon of education reform, \u003cem\u003eAfter the Education Wars\u003c\/em\u003e makes clear that what's needed is not more grand ideas, but practical and informed ways to grow the best ones that are already transforming schools.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrea Gabor\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1620971992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781620971994\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e New Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/12\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.55lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.30h x 6.50w x 1.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 01\/01\/0001\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 07\/01\/2018 pg. 79","brand":"Andrea Gabor","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43979410931967,"sku":"9781620971994","price":27.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_666eae75-92fc-499d-87b5-0b3070d63d6d.jpg?v=1683245392","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/after-the-education-wars-andrea-gabor-9781620971994","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}