Saving Schools: Reforming the U.S. Education System

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 10 weeks

所在平台: EdxArchive 课程类别: 其他类别 大学或机构: HarvardX 授课老师： Paul E. Peterson

课程主页: https://www.edx.org/archive/saving-schools-reforming-u-s-education-harvardx-1368x

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This course seeks to answer the question: how did a school system, once the envy of the world, stumble so that the performance in math, science, and reading of U.S. students at age 15 fell below that of students in a majority of the world’s industrialized nations?

We start by identifying the personalities and historical forces—the progressives, racial desegregation, legalization and collective bargaining—that shaped and re-shaped U.S. school politics and policy. We visit the places where new ideas and practices were spawned, and we look at some of their unanticipated consequences.

From there, we seek answers to a second question: What are the best ways of lifting the performance of American schools to a higher level? To explore these questions, we look at ideas and proposals of those who want to save our schools—be it by reforming the teaching profession, holding schools accountable, or giving families more school choices. In interviews with reform proponents and independent experts, we capture the intensity of the current debate. In the end, we do not find any silver bullets that can magically lift schools to a new level of performance, but we do pinpoint the pluses and minuses of many new approaches to education reform.

课程大纲

• The status of the U.S. Education system compared to countries around the world;
• The way in which teachers are currently paid and alternative proposals for paying teachers;
• The finances and economics of education;
• The theories and implementation of alternative schools of choice (via vouchers or charter schools) in the U.S.;
• The development and possible future for digital learning in the U.S.

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