The book
Crimes Against Learning
Solving the Serial Failure of School Reform
Crimes Against Learning: Solving the Serial Failure of School Reform is the foundation text of GDS’s work. It begins with a broken promise: schools are funded to prepare every student for life, college, and career, yet generation after generation of reform has produced little perceptible improvement.
The book argues that the trouble lies in the design of school itself. Calendars, schedules, and delivery systems built for an earlier age hold time fixed and let learning vary, and they quietly sort students into those who receive high-level opportunity and those who do not. Crimes Against Learning — identifying the crimes — names these inherited habits so leaders can see them, then turns the paradigm around: make learning the constant and let time and support vary, because every student can learn and the adults around them share responsibility for making sure they do.
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2nd Edition — Coming soon
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2nd Edition
The next chapter of this work is on its way. A second edition will carry the first edition’s mission forward: every student learning at a high level, with adults who share responsibility for getting them there. It brings what decades in classrooms and districts, and today’s research, have taught about turning that belief into daily practice. Coming soon.