The Flat World and Education: How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future
The Flat World and Education offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America's future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child the right to learn.
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As America enters the 21st century, U.S. students continue to slip behind in the world's rankings in science and math. Yet, at the same time, state prison budgets are increasing nearly three times as fast as budgets for education. In her new book, Linda Darling-Hammond, a chief education advisor to President Barack Obama, a bestselling author, and a nationally recognized leader in education reform, explores how America's performance globally is linked to the minority-majority achievement gap at home. The Washington Post - Daine Ravitch …contains a valuable lode of practical and research-based advice about how to improve our schools…[Darling-Hammond] reviews what the top-performing school systems around the world do to get great results.
Series Foreword James A. Banks ixAcknowledgments xiii1 The Flat World, Educational Inequality, and America's Future 1Education in Our Flat and Changing World 3How America Is Losing Ground 8How Policy Can Matter 18The Legacy of Educational Inequality 23What Must be Done? 262 The Anatomy of Inequality: How the Opportunity Gap Is Constructed 27Poverty and Lack of Social Supports 31Limited Early Learning Opportunities 33Resegregation and Unequal Schooling 35Unequal Access to Qualified Teachers 40Lack of Access to High-Quality Curriculum 51Dysfunctional Learning Environments 623 New Standards and Old Inequalities: How Testing Narrows and Expands the Opportunity Gap 66The Prospects and Pitfalls of Standards-Based Reform 67Testing Without Investing 73When New Standards Meet Ongoing Inequalities 814 Inequality on Trial: Does Money Make a Difference? 99The Legality of Unequal School Funding 103How Money Makes a Difference 105Litigating for Adequacy 111Under What Conditions Can Money Matter? 1205 A Tale of Three States: What Happens When States Invest Strategically (or Don't) 131The Cases of Connecticut and North Carolina: Strategic Resources Used Well 132The Case of California: When Mismanagement Meets Aggressive Neglect 146The Moral of the Stories 1616 Steady Work: How Countries Build Successful Systems 163The Finnish Success Story 164Korea's Climb to Extraordinary Attainment 173How Singapore Became a "Learning Nation" 181Educational Leap Frog: The Common Practices of Steeply Improving Countries 1927 Doing What Matters Most: Developing Competent Teaching 194A Global Contrast 197Building an Infrastructure for Quality Teaching 2068 Organizing for Success: From Inequality to Quality 234The Need for Major Redesign 237Designing Schools for Teaching and Learning 240Creating Systems of Successful Schools 2649 Policy for Quality and Equality: Toward Genuine School Reform 278Meaningful Student Learning 281Intelligent, Reciprocal Accountability 300Equitable and Adequate Resources 309Strong Professional Practice 313Schools Organized for Student and Teacher Learning 324Conclusion 327Notes 329References 343Index 375About the Author 393
\ Daine Ravitch…contains a valuable lode of practical and research-based advice about how to improve our schools…[Darling-Hammond] reviews what the top-performing school systems around the world do to get great results.\ —The Washington Post\ \ \ \ \ Publishers WeeklyStarred Review. \ Examining in detail issues like equality of spending, testing in K-12 education, and teacher preparation, Stanford education professor Darling-Hammond (The Right to Learn) makes a clear, organized argument that, "like manufacturing industries that have struggled and gone under in recent decades, modern schools were designed at the turn of the last century," and are in desperate need of transformation. Using a straightforward style to examine complex issues, Darling-Hammond reveals the successful educational strategies around the world that are toppling the old educational guard, including a high degree of personalization that allows stronger, closer relationships among students, faculty, staff, and parents. Darling-Hammond doesn't shy away from difficult questions at the heart of seemingly-intractable academic issues; for example, "How is it that scores have been driven upward on the state tests required by No Child Left Behind, yet they have dropped on... international measures?" Scholarly and factual, well-researched and packed with astounding examples of the current climate of American education, this text should prove highly informative for educators, educational administrators, and involved parents throughout the U.S.\ \ \
