Librería Samer Atenea
Librería Aciertas (Toledo)
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Donde los libros
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
As a consequence of the federal 'No Child Left Behind' (NCLB) law, there is tremendous pressureon school principals, teachers, school superintendents, district staff, state departments ofeducation and governors to maximize the increase in student achievement that is obtained withevery dollar of expenditure.Currently, teachers are forced to rely on extremely inefficient approaches that take enormousamounts of time, both during the school day and throughout the K-12 learning years. This isexperienced in terms of the reduced time that is available to teach subjects other than math andreading, as schools resort to double periods of math, double periods of reading, and enormousamounts of remedial instruction that directly reduce the time available for other subjects includingscience, art, and music.In contrast, this book suggests that student achievement may be increased in a way that is not only cost-effective in dollar terms, butefficient in the sense that it does not rely on unusual investments in the time required to obtain results. The book draws upon a wealth ofcost-effectiveness data to dispel common notions about 'what works' in addressing the achievement gap: increased expenditure perpupil, charter schools, voucher programs, increased educational accountability, class size reduction, comprehensive school reform,increased teacher salaries, more selective teacher recruitment, the use of 'value-added' methods to measure and reward teacher performance,the use of National Board teacher certification to identify high-performing teachers, and a host of other approaches.
