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​Part I: Shortsighted Vision & Lopsided StaffingChapter 1: The House on Sleepy Hollow RoadBridges and PotholesHow the Book Is OrganizedChapter 2: So Many Girls...So Few PrincesSome Negative Effects of the Gender Staffing ImbalanceWhat You Can DoChapter 3: When Am I Ever Going to Use Any of This?Adventure and High PurposeThe Romantic ChildLessons from Harry PotterIndustry vs. InferiorityThe Zombie ApocalypseWhat You Can DoChapter 4: And Then God Made School BoardsThe AdministrationTotal Management MentalityAdversarial PostureWho Becomes an Administrator?Toxic CultureThe Good OnesWhat You Can DoChapter 5: the Bottom of the Barrel?Women's Work: The MotherDrill and Kill: The SergeantJust Tell Me What to Do: the SheepThe Easiest Major: The UnderachieverTeacher Training, Where It All BeginsWhy Should We Teach Anyway?What You Can DoChapter 6: What to Do about These Four ThingsOur Vision of Teachers and SchoolsPersonnel ReformPart II: The Wall of Separation, Administrative Bloat, and Boundless AccommodationChapter 7: Platonic Curriculum; Epicurean SocietyWho Formulates the Standards?What Are Standards Designed to Do?What Is the Nature of the Standards?Five Basic Problems with Current Elementary StandardsThree Possible SolutionsWhat You Can DoChapter 8: Just Wastin' TimeThe Different Kinds of Wasted TimeWhere Does the Time Go?Time-Off-TaskWhy Is So Much Time Lost?How Lost Time Negatively Impacts Teacher and StudentWhat You Can DoChapter 9: No Child Left Behind?A Brief History of Standardized TestsCommon CritiquesThe Real Reason Why NCLB Caused So Much TroubleLife after NCLBWhat You Can DoChapter 10: I'm Five Teachers at Once!What is Differentiated Instruction?A Sympathetic Critique of DILess Noble reasons for Using DIWhat You Can DoChapter 11: The Incredible Bending SchoolReasonable Special Education and Non-Academic ServicesUnreasonable Special Education and Non-Academic ServicesPedagogical stressWhat You Can DoChapter 12: Look Not to the StarsA Picture of Contemporary Parental EngagementBarriers to Parental EngagementWhy Parental Engagement MattersWhat You Can DoChapter 13: What to Do about These Six ThingsWall of SeparationMultiplying DiversionsPart III: What to Do about All 10 ThingsChapter 14: A New Day?Dealing with FearSeeing Through IdeologyLetting Go of the Need to ControlConclusion
About the Author:

James J. Dillon, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at the University of West Georgia, USA. He is a graduate of Clark University, a certified public elementary school teacher, and author of Partnerships in Research, Clinical, and Educational Settings (2000) and Teaching Psychology and the Socratic Method (Palgrave-Macmillan, 2016).


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9783030233464
  • Publisher: Springer International Publishing
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Height: 210 mm
  • No of Pages: 261
  • Spine Width: 14 mm
  • Weight: 381 gr
  • ISBN-10: 3030233464
  • Publisher Date: 14 Aug 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: A Psychologist's Perspective
  • Width: 148 mm


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