Too Simple to Fail : A Case for Educational Change - R. Barker Bausell

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Too Simple to Fail

A Case for Educational Change

By: R. Barker Bausell

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Hardcover | 28 October 2010

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256 Pages

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Too Simple to Fail presents a startling dissection of what is wrong with our educational system and a set of simple, common-sense steps for improving it. This simplicity, Bausell argues, characterizes both the schooling process and the science of education, as witnessed by legions of researchers who have discovered precious little that their grandmothers didn't already know. Yet surprisingly, based upon the author's own studies and a review of the past 30+ years of educational research, these discoveries boil down to a simple but powerful theory: The only way schools can increase learning is to increase the amount of relevant instructional time for all students.
Here, Bausell demonstrates that classroom instruction is hopelessly obsolete, as are our current testing practices, both contributing to the widening opportunity gap between socioeconomic and racial groups. But with an understanding of what is wrong with education today comes the revelation that the answer to these deficiencies has been available to us all along in the form of the tutorial model, the most effective instructional paradigm ever developed. Only in recent years has it become feasible to simulate this extremely effective instructional medium as a universal option that, in effect, would allow schools to provide relevant instruction as a rule and not an exception. If implemented, a new world of opportunity and potential will finally be available to children, whose learning is so crucial for our future.
The new model presented in this book has implications for identifying not only what is wrong with the way we educate our young, but also why it is wrong, and how the educational process can be made more efficient, effective, and fair.

Industry Reviews

"Mr. Bausell has emerged with a book about his true intellectual passion - how we teach, how kids learn, and what would give us better results...His vision of the learning lab - with students touching computer screens as they follow computerized lessons, each of them learning at his or her own pace, and with tutors providing individualized instruction as necessary - suggests a more efficient model for learning, particularly for children already behind the curve, and real urgency about the future." --Dan Rodricks, The Baltimore Sun

"Dr. Bausell provides a comprehensive analysis of the lessons to be drawn from classic schooling research. It would be difficult to dispute Dr. Bausell's central premise - that one-on-one instruction is the best guarantor of improved academic performance. But Dr. Bausell's exhaustive research summary leaves one with no other plausible conclusion." --IEducationNext

"I applaud the author of Too Simple To Fail: A Case for Educational Change for establishing simple strategies to improve K-12 education. Too Simple To Fail
would serve as a good resource for parents, teachers, principals, school board members, and educational psychologists." -- PsycCRITIQUES

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