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Success Against The Oddsby National Commission on Education
RoutledgeFalmer 1995; US$ 52.95The follow up to the bestseller Learning To Succeed, this book examines one of the key themes of its predecessor, how schools in disadvantaged areas can be effective. An essential purchase for anyone interested in education. more...
The Discourse of Character Educationby Peter. Smagorinsky; Joel. Taxel
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates 2005; US$ 58.95Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest in the 1990s. The goal is to uncover the ideological nature of different conceptions of character education. more...
Closing the Achievement Gapby Belinda Williams
ASCD 2003; US$ 25.95This second edition of Closing the Achievement Gap discusses ways to eliminate the learning disparity among urban, suburban, and rural students, with an emphasis on the importance of crosscultural awareness. more...
Urban Education in the United Statesby John L. Rury
Palgrave Macmillan 2006; US$ 105.00Urban Education in the United States examines the development of schools in the large cities of the USA. John Rury, a well-known historian of education, introduces and highlights the most significant and classic essays dealing with urban schooling in this collection. Urban Education in the United States will provide an introduction to critical themes in the history of city schools and will frame each section with an overview of urban education research during particular periods in US history. more...
Relentless Pursuitby Donna Foote
Knopf Publishing Group 2008; US$ 13.99When Locke High School opened its doors in 1967, the residents of Watts celebrated it as a sign of the changes promised by Los Angeles. But four decades later, first-year Teach for America recruits Rachelle, Phillip, Hrag, and Taylor are greeted by a school that looks more like a prison, with bars, padlocks, and chains all over. With little training and experience, these four will be asked to produce academic gains in students who are among the most disadvantaged in the country. Relentless Pursuit lays bare the experiences of these four teachers to evaluate the strengths and peculiarities of Teach for America and a social reality that has become inescapable. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
The American Dream and the Public Schoolsby Jennifer L. Hochschild; Nathan Scovronick
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 15.00The American Dream and the Public Schools examines issues that have excited and divided Americans for years, including desegregation, school funding, testing, vouchers, bilingual education, and ability grouping. While these are all separate problems, much of the contention over them comes down to the same thing--an apparent conflict between policies designed to promote each student's ability to succeed and those designed to insure the good of all students or the nation as a whole. The authors show how policies to promote individual success too often benefit only those already privileged by race or class, and often conflict with policies that are intended to benefit everyone. They propose a framework that builds on our nation's rapidly... more...
Schools Betrayedby Kathryn M. Neckerman
University of Chicago Press 2008; US$ 22.50The problems commonly associated with inner-city schools were not nearly as pervasive a century ago, when black children in most northern cities attended school alongside white children. In Schools Betrayed , her innovative history of race and urban education, Kathryn M. Neckerman tells the story of how and why these schools came to serve black children so much worse than their white counterparts. Focusing on Chicago public schools between 1900 and 1960, Neckerman compares the circumstances of blacks and white immigrants, groups that had similarly little wealth and status yet came to gain vastly different benefits from their education. Their divergent educational outcomes, she contends, stemmed from Chicago officials’ decision... more...
Restoring Honor to Public Schoolsby William Smith; Gerald Bracey
Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2009; US$ 35.99Restoring Honor to Public Schools: A Teacher's Vision for American Education, draws upon its author's thirty years of experience to offer an insider's look at teaching and learning, providing thoughtful and achievable recommendations for honoring teachers and teaching and restoring civility and intelligence to our nation's discourse about education. more...
Elite MBA Programs at Public Universitiesby Mimi Wolverton; Larry Penley
ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 55.00This book provides a behind-the-scenes look at 12 public universities that have transformed their MBA programs to effectively compete against the well-heeled private schools. more...
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