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Will Standards Save Public Education?

Somewhere... there is a place of sanity where education is intense and substantive... It's in that place that Deborah Meier has been working all these years. Her voice conveys a life of struggle in the front lines-victories and losses, hopes and disappointments... It's a voice our nation needs to hear. — Jonathan Kozol, from the Foreword

Acclaimed educator Deborah Meier offers a fresh take on standardized tests. While others have criticized standards and what they measure, Meier rejects the very idea of a centralized authority that dictates how and what teachers teach. Standardization, she argues, prevents citizens-including teachers-from emerging as thoughtful, responsible adults, seriously engaged with shaping their own schools, classrooms, and communities. As a result, young people can't learn from them how to be thoughtful, responsible adults and good citizens, the primary goal of public education in a democracy.

The New Democracy Forum is a series of short paperback originals exploring creative solutions to our most urgent national concerns.

"A civic treasure... A truly good idea, carried out with intelligence and panache." — Robert Pinsky

  • Format
  • paperback
  • Pages
  • 106
  • Language
  • english
  • ISBN
  • 9780807004418
  • Genres
  • education, teaching
  • Release date
  • 2000