Routledge
Failure-Free Education?: The Past, Present and Future of School Effectiveness and School Improvement
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- David Reynolds
- Routledge
- Paperback
- 9780415619844
- 9.21 X 6.14 X 0.54 inches
- 0.8 pounds
- Education > Decision Making & Problem Solving
- English
Secure TransactionBook Description
David Reynolds is recognised internationally as one of the leaders of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement, and Failure Free Education? brings together for the first time many of his most influential and provocative pieces. Drawing on the author's work from over three decades, these extracts from his seminal books, chapters, papers and articles combine to give a unique overview of how the movement developed, the problems involved in the application of the knowledge and the disciplines' potentially glittering future now.
The book also covers the issues raised by, and lessons learned from, his close involvement with English government educational policymaking from the mid 1990s to date.
This book is essential reading for those who seek to understand how we can make every school a good school, and what the obstacles may be to achieving that goal.
Author Bio
David S. Reynolds is recognized internationally as a leading authority in American literature, U.S. history, and biography. He is author or editor of sixteen books and is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, and the Wall Street Journal.
David S. Reynolds is the author or editor of sixteen books, most recently Abe: Abraham Lincoln in His Times (2020), which was selected as one of the Top Ten Books of the Year of the Wall Street Journal and among the best books of the year of the Washington Post, the Christian Science Monitor, and Kirkus Reviews.
His previous books include Lincoln's Selected Writings, Mightier Than the Sword: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and the Battle for America, Walt Whitman’s America; John Brown, Abolitionist; Waking Giant: America in the Age of Jackson; and Beneath the American Renaissance.
Three of his books have been listed among the New York Times’s “Notable Books of the Year,” and one has been chosen among the New Yorker’s “Favorite Books of the Year.” He has been interviewed more than 100 times on radio and TV, on shows including NPR’s Morning Edition, Fresh Air, Weekend Edition, and The Diane Rehm Show, ABC’s The John Batchelor Show, and C-SPAN’s After Words, Brian Lamb’s Book Notes, and Book TV.
He is a regular contributor to The New York Times Book Review, the New York Review of Books, and the Wall Street Journal, and is included in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Education, and Who’s Who in the World.
Reynolds was born in Providence, Rhode Island. For much of his childhood he lived in West Barrington, Rhode Island, in a home attached to the Nayatt Point Lighthouse (built in 1828).
He received a B.A. magna cum laude from Amherst College and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Before coming to the Graduate Center, he taught American literature, American studies, and U. S. history at Northwestern University, Barnard College, New York University, Rutgers University, Baruch College, and the Sorbonne–Paris III.
- Awards and Grants
- The Bancroft Prize
- the Lincoln Prize
- the Christian Gauss Award
- the Abraham Lincoln Institute Book Award
- the Ambassador Book Award
- the Gustavus Myers Outstanding Book Award
- finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award
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