Understanding Key Education Issues How We Got Here and Where We Go From Here

In this age of education innovation and reform, schools must evolve and react to current policy trends. This accessible book offers research-based insights into six key educational trends and issues that are impacting K–12 learning today: year-round schooling, assessments, educating minorities, anti-intellectualism, issues of social promotion and retention, and school design. Each chapter unpacks research and policy issues relating to these topics and provides administrators with practical advice on how they should approach these issues to improve learning in their schools. The ideas and strategies in Understanding Key Education Issues will help educators across the country achieve greater efficiency, better results, and a higher purpose.

Contents Meet the Author Preface Acknowledgments Chapter 1: How Did We Get Here, and What’s Next? Chapter 2: Year-Round Schooling: The Unexpected Solution to America’s Education Woes? Chapter 3: Examining the Present and Future of K-12 Assessments Chapter 4: Black Boys in Crisis: What Can We Do? Chapter 5: Combating Anti-intellectualism and Academic Disengagement Chapter 6: Responding to Social Promotion and Retention Chapter 7: Rethinking School Design for Better Learning Outcomes References Index

Matthew Lynch is an award-winning writer, activist, and president of Lynch Consulting Group. Formerly, he was the Dean of the School of Education, Psychology, and Interdisciplinary Studies and an Associate Professor of Education at Virginia Union University, USA.