Standards for Our Schools: How to Set Them, Measure Them, and Reach Them

By Marc S. Tucker and Judy B. Codding

Book Overview

"A must read for those seeking high standards for all students. With unusual insight, the authors address the major issues, offering inspirational examples of schools that succeed." --Jerome T. Murphy, professor and dean, Harvard Graduate School of Education This timely, tough-minded book shows how American public schools can be saved by instituting high standards for academic achievement. It explains not just what the standards movement is about and why it is important, but also what it will take to bring every student up to high standards, no matter where that student starts. Tucker and Codding focus on empowering both students and adults by giving students the gift of high expectations and by giving school professionals the information, skills, authority and resources needed to do the job. They advocate building a standards-based instructional system, creating a results-oriented culture devoted to continuous improvement, and making the institution and the people in it accountable for reaching the goals set by the standards.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0787938947
• ISBN13: 9780787938949
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc Pub
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.8" x 1.3" x 6.5"

Customer Reviews

The Future is Now

This is a book about the future of American education - what it could be - what it had better be - if we intend to meet the demands of the kind of global/technological world in which we seem to be living . The authors make a poignant comparison between a typical American high school student who has no idea of his future in terms of professional or occupational aspirations and several young people in Europe and Asia who are preparing for their futures as an important part of their schooling. The contrasts between what we are doing and what some other countries are doing to prepare their youth for the future is stunning and provocative.The authors demonstrate how a standards based education - one based on national industry skill standards - can provide the focus for many of our youth, regardless of whether they are going to be doctors or plumbers (we ALL go to work after our formal education).Several convincing examples are given of schools who are successfully implementing a standards-based approach. Many excellent resourses for systemic change are included. A "must read" for anyone interested in improving our educational system.