#Education Reform

2 books tagged with education reform, sorted by rating.

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Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System

by Siegfried Engelmann

4/5

Self-Help & Personal Growth

War Against the Schools' Academic Child Abuse

by Siegfried Engelmann

4/5

Self-Help & Personal Growth

Teaching Needy Kids in Our Backward System

by Siegfried Engelmann

4/5

Through vivid vignettes spanning from the 1960s through 2006, Engelmann chronicles his four-decade battle to bring effective instruction to at-risk children, particularly those in poverty. The book details his experiences with Project Follow Through and the systemic resistance he faced from the education establishment despite overwhelming evidence that Direct Instruction works.

Self-Help & Personal Growth

War Against the Schools' Academic Child Abuse

by Siegfried Engelmann

4/5

Engelmann takes on the American education system in this hard-hitting critique, detailing his involvement in Project Follow Through — the largest educational experiment ever conducted — and how the results proving Direct Instruction's superiority were buried by the establishment. A passionate argument that failing schools are committing academic child abuse by refusing to adopt proven teaching methods.

Self-Help & Personal Growth