Creating Educational Access, Equity, and Opportunity for All - by Everette W Surgenor (Paperback)

About the Book

This book explains how the mismatch between function and form is creating circumstances that are putting the future of public education at risk, leading to system dysfunction, deregulation, and privatization. Public education needs to be redesigned and reformatted to match the...

Book Synopsis

This book explains how the mismatch between function and form is creating circumstances that are putting the future of public education at risk, leading to system dysfunction, deregulation, and privatization. Public education needs to be redesigned and reformatted to match the function of the age in which we now live.

Review Quotes

Everette Surgenor's new book titled Creating Educational Access, Equity and Opportunity For All presents a compelling vision for the future of education. Surgenor's vision, however, cannot become reality unless there are thousands of educators with the courage, passion, and vision to take action to transform their school systems. They will need courage to face the adversity they will face as those with a vested interest in maintaining the status quo fiercely resist their efforts to transform -- and they will resist because their entire careers and their sources of substantial funds are anchored to the Industrial-Age paradigm. They will need passion to give them the emotional and physical energy to "stay in the fight" in the face of the adversity, in spite of the odds, and despite efforts of politicians to continue funding education within the existing paradigm. And, of course, they will need a vision -- like Surgenor's -- that will serve as their "North Star" to guide them toward the dream that so many of us share for a new way of educating our children.

About the Author

Everette W. Surgenor practiced as an educator at the school and district level for thirty plus years. He works as a consultant, author, and chairman of a community broadband initiative.