Teaching Transformed: Achieving Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion, and Harmony

by Roland G. Tharp, Peggy Estrada, Stephanie Dalton

All school reformers are trying for better schooling; but all are not marching to the same drum. Four goals-- Excellence, Fairness, Inclusion and Harmony-- are emphasized by different groups. Are the four goals competing ideas of the good, so that national political debates must result in prioritizing, in winners and losers? Tharp, Estrada, Dalton,

Genres: Education

291 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2000

Reviews

[Ken · Rating 2 out of 5]

I understand the message of this book and I'll admit to being mixed on it. For the author's cause though, what they really need is a well-written, interesting text. This book follows the philosophy: why state something in twenty words when you can drone on about it for two hundred (or two thousand) words?