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Class Warfare: Focus on Good Students Is Ruining Schools
William L. Fibkins
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Description for Class Warfare: Focus on Good Students Is Ruining Schools
Hardback. .
With budget cuts looming every year, administrators and union leaders find themselves in a never-ending game of promoting how good their school is and why budget cuts will derail their ongoing success. The vehicle they choose for this ongoing self-promotion is what William Fibkins calls the “dazzle” approach, which focuses only on “good news.” Overtime administrators and staff often come to believe the positive reviews of the good news process and overlook or abandon those students who don’t make good news but instead act out, fail, cause trouble and give the school a bad name. These are the “bad news” ... Read more
With budget cuts looming every year, administrators and union leaders find themselves in a never-ending game of promoting how good their school is and why budget cuts will derail their ongoing success. The vehicle they choose for this ongoing self-promotion is what William Fibkins calls the “dazzle” approach, which focuses only on “good news.” Overtime administrators and staff often come to believe the positive reviews of the good news process and overlook or abandon those students who don’t make good news but instead act out, fail, cause trouble and give the school a bad name. These are the “bad news” ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
104
Place of Publication
Lanham, United States
ISBN
9781475800128
SKU
V9781475800128
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About William L. Fibkins
William L. Fibkins is an author and consultant. He focuses on reforming education by retraining and mentoring teachers, counselors, and administrators in order to meet the needs of today’s teenagers. Doing so by establishing a “circle of wellness” in our secondary schools that creates many open doors of help for every member of the school community headed towards the margins ... Read more
Reviews for Class Warfare: Focus on Good Students Is Ruining Schools
Dr. Fibkins book is a brilliant analysis of what is wrong with our high schools and what we need to do to make sure 'every' student is seen as worthy of opportunity, dignity and respect....As a Director of Social Services Agencies on both the East and West Coast, I have observed many of these students in search of some relief, ... Read more