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War Against Excellence: The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools

War Against Excellence: The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools

Bennett, Bill
Yecke, Cheri Pierson

Paperback

General EducationSpecial Education

ISBN10: 1578862272
ISBN13: 9781578862276
Publisher: R & L Education
Published: May 12 2005
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.66 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.08
Language: English

Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U. S. by tracing its evolution from academically-oriented junior high schools to the dissolution of academics in the middle schools of the late 1980s and beyond. In this book, evidence is presented to show how leaders of this movement designed to use the middle school as a vehicle to promote non-academic goals, contrary to the desires of parents and the community. Favored instructional practices-such as the elimination of ability grouping and the rise in cooperative learning and peer tutoring-have produced coerced egalitarianism, where education performance is equalized by bringing the achievement of gifted and high ability students down to the level of mediocrity.

The War against Excellence examines the impact of:

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