Inside Today's Elementary Schools A Psychologist's Perspective /

• Main Author: Dillon, James J. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Educational psychology.; Education-Psychology.; Infant psychology.; Developmental psychology.; Popular Science in Psychology.; Child and School Psychology.; Educational Psychology.; Infancy and Early Childhood Development.; Developmental Psychology.

This book takes readers on a tour of a day in the life of a public elementary school in an effort to give parents and other stakeholders a sense of the realities of the classroom. The tour reveals ten worrisome things about today's schools and considers what to do about them. Dillon emphasizes...

Table of Contents:

• Part I: Shortsighted Vision & Lopsided Staffing
• Chapter 1: The House on Sleepy Hollow Road
• Chapter 2: So Many Girls...So Few Princes
• Chapter 3: When Am I Ever Going to Use Any of This?
• Chapter 4: And Then God Made School Boards
• Chapter 5: the Bottom of the Barrel?
• Chapter 6: What to Do about These Four Things
• Part II: The Wall of Separation, Administrative Bloat, and Boundless Accommodation
• Chapter 7: Platonic Curriculum; Epicurean Society
• Chapter 8: Just Wastin' Time
• Chapter 9: No Child Left Behind?
• Chapter 10: I'm Five Teachers at Once!
• Chapter 11: The Incredible Bending School
• Chapter 12: Look Not to the Stars
• Chapter 13: What to Do about These Six Things
• Part III: What to Do about All 10 Things
• Chapter 14: A New Day?