{"product_id":"after-the-education-wars-how-smart-schools-upend-the-business-of-reform-9781620971994","title":"After the Education Wars: How Smart Schools Upend the Business of Reform","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Andrea Gabor\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Schools - Types - Charter\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\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\u003c\/p\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","brand":"New Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":45411937747095,"sku":"9781620971994","price":2002.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781620971994.webp?v=1767106227","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/after-the-education-wars-how-smart-schools-upend-the-business-of-reform-9781620971994","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}