Who Should Read This?
“dwell in possibility…” Emily Dickinson
Charting the Course is not written for educators or policy wonks. It was written to address the interests and concerns of the everyday American citizen. Charting the Course is an idea book and an information book. Presented in an easy to understand and visually appealing format; the book is an engaging, comprehensive examination of the problems in public education past and present. It offers practical, real world solutions based upon scientific data and research.
Charting the Course is different from previous works in 5 significant ways:
Voice: An objective discussion written for the common, everyday man and woman
Clarity: Easy to understand and designed to be visually appealing with more than 100 sidebars
Thorough: A careful examination of both the external and internal factors that impact student achievement
Factual: Statistically accurate and rich in meaning with 78 tables & charts
Mechanics: Provides a simple and straightforward approach to positively transform public education
Charting the Course draws upon a fantastic body of research. The statistical data has always been available, but the combination of data points are fresh and new. The book crosses decades of statistics to identify disturbing trends and costly secrets. Charting the Course wrings the meaning out of the data and transcends the details to accurately identify the real obstacles and pinpoint the most viable solutions for effective public school reform.
This book will successfully demonstrate why true reform cannot be achieved through any existing strategies. Current education reform theory threatens to upend centuries of advancement in providing equal opportunity through public education. In fact, the course upon which we are set -without correction- will unalterably result in a national crisis of epic proportion furthering economic instability and accelerating the loss of America’s competitive advantage in a 21st century global environment. Charting the Course reveals why.
Tam Newby provides the tools necessary to successfully transform our public school system without breaking the education bank. Charting the Course was written to refocus the public debate. It spotlights the complex inertia that has paralyzed our public schools and student achievement for more than half of a century.
Read Charting the Course…there is no better time.