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UNSUSTAINABLE: A Strategy for Making Public Schooling More Productive, Effective, and Affordable
$21.95 paper
$45.00 cloth
By Tim McDonald
This acclaimed book frames the problem of cost and effectiveness in America’s public schooling system, and provides a strategy to address it.
It argues something that many education professionals and policy makers have come to believe but rarely mention: That this country’s system of K-12 schooling is not sustainable and is becoming a poorer value each year that goes by.
It argues for improving the cost and effectiveness of public schooling through a strategy of innovation that targets productivity. Addressing the question how to do this, the book provides policy recommendations to the state, district, and federal levels. In a final chapter it outlines uncommon strategies for overcoming some of the most difficult political, practical, and structural roadblocks to improvement.
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Book supplements:
- Book endorsements
- Book summary (extended)
- Foreword by Ted Kolderie
- Excerpt (Part Two): The Current System of K-12 is Not Sustainable
London’s Calling: Reasserting the Primacy of Liberal Values
$72.00 | £47.00
By Tim McDonald
A large portion of Britain's Muslims are not assimilating to a high standard of liberal values. Beliefs that many consider "extremist" are in fact surprisingly common.
As the Muslim minority grows in share of Europe's population the situation in society will either become more peaceful, or it will become more violent. This book contends that at present the West is headed toward increasing violence. Peace will come only by rooting laws, policies, and the bounds of cultural tolerance in the values of freedom.
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