Tough Love for Schools: Essays on Competition, Accountability, and Excellence

by Frederick M. Hess

In Tough Love for Schools, Frederick M Hess calls for policymakers, educators, and citizens to get serious about doing what is needed to refashion American education for the twenty-first century.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0844742112
• ISBN13: 9780844742113
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: AEI Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.2"

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An outstanding theoretic workbook/reference very strongly recommended reading for all K-12 public sc

Tough Love For Schools: Essays On Competition, Accountability, And Excellence by Frederick M. Hess (Director, Educational Policy Studies, American Enterprise Institute) is an engaging and thought-provoking collection of essays analyzing the actualities and radical ideals of what might possibly fuel a public school's productivity. Using such theoretical tactics or concepts as that which indicts greatest profit as the most positive reinforcement for K-12 faculty and many other rather conceptual strategies for creating a more enthusiastic and effective atmosphere for learning and teaching. Tough Love For Schools is an outstanding theoretic workbook/reference very strongly recommended reading for all K-12 public school teachers searching for a new, more innovative concepts with which they might apply in their classrooms and curriculums.