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Closing the Achievement Gap
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...
Restoring Honor to Public Schools
R&L Education 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...
Success Against The Odds
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 Education
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...
The American Dream and the Public Schools
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 18.99The 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... more...
Urban Education in the United States
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 37.00Urban 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... more...
Relentless Pursuit
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2008; US$ 16.00When 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... more...
Elite MBA Programs at Public Universities
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...
Schools Betrayed
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... more...
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