What Works May Hurt--Side Effects in Education

by Yong Zhao

Book Overview

Medical products are required to disclose both their intended outcomes and known side effects. Educational policy and practice, however, carry no such labels. Thus, teachers, school leaders, and the public are not told, for example, that "this program helps improve your students' reading scores, but it may make them hate reading forever," or that "school choice may improve test scores of some students, but it may lead to the collapse of American...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807759058
• ISBN13: 9780807759059
• Release Date: June 2018
• Publisher: Teachers College Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.58 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 8.9"