Download or read book A Learning-centered Framework for Education Reform written by Elizabeth J. Demarest and published by Teachers College Press. This book was released on 2010-11-28 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her new book, Betty Demarest desribes a bold new agenda for education reform - one that is firmly grounded in a synthesis of educational research about learning, teaching, and the contexts of education. The author's "learning-centered" framwork includes (1) a broad and balanced set of education goals, (2) a multifaceted concept fo achievement, (3) classroom capacity for learning, (4) systemic capacity and infrastructure, (5) shared, reciprocal accountabiltiy, and (6) systems of multiple assessments. New research-based concepts in these six areas are critically compared to older concepts behind standards-based reform and No Child Left Behind.