Product Description
This inspiring author moves beyond criticism of public education uniting readers toward a vision of educating children that is holistic, intelligent, and empowering. Seeds of Tomorrow: Solutions for Improving Our Children’s Education offers reasonable alternatives to high-stakes testing. Engel promotes educational philosophies in support of differentiation and personalization rather than uniformity and conformity. She introduces school collaborative accountability m… More >>
Seeds of Tomorrow: Solutions for Improving Our Children’s Education
Tags: Children's, Education, Improving, Seeds, Solutions, Tomorrow
Seeds of Tomorrow: Solutions for Improving Our Children’s Education is inspired, informed, written with keen insight and clarity–and to the point!
I visualize Angela’s book and her enlightened advocacy spearheading a new beginning to wake up teachers, parents, the public, teacher educators…. I’m certain she will bring her passionate and articulate message to teacher groups, parent organizations, the media and politicians–very possibly guiding us into a new age where the welfare of all children and their families, not high-stakes testing and uniformity of so-called standards, becomes a national priority.
My immediate reaction upon finishing reading Seeds of Tomorrow was one of sadness, guarded optimism and a call to action. Sadness for a value system that places the welfare of children below the sales of designer jeans and junk food, sadness for the lack of humanistic progressive leadership. Why guarded optimism? Because making the comprehensive and diverse needs of children and their education a national priority, which seems so obvious, requires many, many Angela Engels to speak up about the misguided educational policies–at the local, state and now, more than ever, the federal level.
Rating: 5 / 5
Angela Engel’s book, “The Seeds of Tomorrow, Solutions for Improving Our Children’s Education”, provides a thoughtful analysis of the current overemphasis on testing is schools, and the ramifications to children and the future of our nation. She presents a convincing argument for teaching our children not just facts and answers for the tests, but for thinking skills of analysis, synthesis, and forming questions about themselves and their world. As she stated in chapter six, “The goal is not what you learn today, the goal is to expand your capacity to learn everyday.” From her background as a parent, classroom teacher, administrator, and polity advisor, the author brings a unique overall viewpoint to this work as well as her concerns for all our children, our “Seeds of Tomorrow”.
former school librarian in Austin, Texas
Rating: 5 / 5