Publication Date: April 26, 2013
(Print Publication Date: November 28, 2010)
Pages: 192
In her new book, Betty Demarest describes a bold agenda for education reform—one that is firmly grounded in a synthesis of educational research about learning, teaching, and the contexts of education. The author’s “learning-centered” framework includes: (1) a broad and balanced set of education goals; (2) a multifaceted concept of achievement; (3) classroom capacity for learning; (4) systemic capacity and infrastructure; (5) shared, reciprocal accountability; and (6) systems of multiple assessments. New research-based concepts in these six areas are compared critically to older concepts behind standards-based reform and No Child Left Behind.
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Elizabeth J. Demarest is an education consultant living in Alexandria, Virginia. She was formerly with the U.S. Department of Education and the National Education Association.
“Betty Demarest clearly defines a learning-centered framework for improving policy and practice in our nation’s classrooms.”
—Gerald N. Tirozzi, National Association of Secondary School Principals
“This book is a welcome gift to policymakers and practitioners.”
—Roland Tharp, University of California, Berkeley
“Demarest provides a research-based foundation for informed discussion and debate as Congress renews federal education law. Her synthesis of key issues should provide a starting point for any serious discussion of the way forward in federal education policy.”
—Mary Haywood Metz, professor emerita, University of Wisconsin–Madison
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