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- Title: Push Has Come to Shove
- Author : Dr. Steve Perry
- Release Date : January 13, 2011
- Genre: Education,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 6674 KB
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âHave you been to a school lately? Have you sat through the six hours and forty-five minutes of excruciating tedium we send our kids to every day? When we ask our kids, âWhatâd you do in school today?â and they mumble, âNothinâ,â theyâre telling the truth.â
Steve Perry is like no other educator youâve ever met. He âgets it.â He understands why some parents are downright panicked about whatâs going on in their kidsâ classrooms, and how other parents, whose kids supposedly attend the âgoodâ schools, still fear that their children are falling behind. As Principal of one of the best performing schools in America -- one that sends 100% of its mostly minority students to four-year colleges -- Perry delights in poking the system. Present him with a âtruthâ about how education is supposed to work and â count on it â heâll show it to be false.
Dictatorial teacherâs unions despise Steve Perry. So do lazy teachers. So do entrenched, unimaginative school boards. So do reactionary âcurriculum guardiansâ who â as a lure to get kids reading â cling to the same old stodgy texts.
âThatâs okay,â say Perry. That means heâs making a difference. In this book, his priority is to help kids who donât have the advantage of going to his school, Capital Prep. He wants to save your kid, and the kid next door, and the kid down the street from getting a typical third-rate American education.
If youâre a parent who has worried recently about how depressed your child seems when he dresses for school in the morningâŠor how little of what happens during the school day seems to sink into her brain⊠or how much of your childâs homework is busywork, you need this book.
If youâre a teacher who is putting your heart and soul into the job but are surrounded by colleagues who are âphoning it in,â you need this book.
If youâre a committed, forward-thinking principal who wants to get rid of the faculty bad apples, but are continually stymied by Mafia-style teachers-unions, you need this book.
*If youâre a citizen who worries about the $1 trillion-plus GDP loss that America suffers every year because our system of education doesnât measure up, you need this book.
In this solution-oriented manifesto, Steve Perry covers the full range of issues holding back todayâs students. He shows parents how to find great teachers (and get rid of the bad ones)âŠhow to make readers out of kids who hate to readâŠhow to make the school curriculum thrilling rather than sleep-inducingâŠhow to conduct an all-important education âhome auditâ⊠how to âe-organizeâ if school boards and administrators arenât getting the messageâŠhow to build a âschool of the future,â and much more.
The era of third-rate education is over. Steve Perry isnât going to let the fools and scoundrels get away with it any longer. Push has come to shove!