Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling

By Frederick M. Hess

What if it's the system that's the problem? What if the key to breakthrough school improvement is not mandating new solutions built on an elusive combination of the right standards, pedagogy, and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 141660913X
• ISBN13: 9781416609131
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve
• Length: 179 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

Greenfields-the change educators' top option.

Change in education is often reduced to minor tweaking, or engineered retrofitting of an adaptation. This often boils down to much ado about nothing, and it rarely changes what happens in classrooms, in the long term. The top option for all educators involved in change is the greenfields option. Tabula rasa. Start on a clean slate, if that were possible, in education. Hess has written a ground-breaking book that is very relevant to me at present. Hess's book shows what can be done, and what needs to be considered. This should be compulsory reading for Western Australian school communities entering, or wanting to commence, the Independent Public Schools program.

A fascinating and very highly recommended read

The ideal to build a better school system drives many thinkers to revamp it for a better system tomorrow. "Education Unbound: The Promise and Practice of Greenfield Schooling" is a discussion from Frederick M. Hess aimed at discussing the state of education, saying that modern America's education problems could dwell in the very foundation of the system. Calling for a reboot of the system to start from scratch, Hess gives scholarly thought and opinion, making "Education Unbound" a fascinating and very highly recommended read that shouldn't be missed by education administrators.