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First Class
Chicago Review Press 2013; US$ 21.99Combining a fascinating history of the first U.S. high school for African Americans with an unflinching analysis of urban public-school education today, First Class explores an underrepresented and largely unknown aspect of black history while opening a discussion on what it takes to make a public school successful. In 1870, in the wake of the Civil... more...
Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors
Wiley 2011; US$ 24.95The inside story of the most-watched attempt to transform a troubled high school Stray Dogs, Saints, and Saviors tells the real-life story of Locke High School. Locke High– originally known for its excellence–became one of the toughest, most dysfunctional schools in the nation. Then in 2007 teachers voted to bring in an upstart charter... more...
Social Justice in Education
Palgrave Macmillan 2008; US$ 29.00Are American schools socially just institutions? Using the methods of political philosopher John Rawls, this book answers that question by arguing for four principles that express the basic purposes that Americans hold for their schools?principles of Personal Liberty, Democracy, Equal Opportunity, and Economic Growth. more...
Searching for Hope
Indiana University Press 2012; US$ 24.99Searching for Hope is a gripping account of life in a once-great high school in a rough Indianapolis neighborhood. Granted unfiltered access to Manual High throughout an entire school year, award-winning journalist Matthew Tully tells the complex story of the everyday drama, failures, and triumphs in one of the nation?s many troubled urban public... more...
My Boys and Girls Are in There
Texas A&M University Press 2012; US$ 24.95On March 18, 1937, a spark ignited a vast pool of natural gas that had collected beneath the school building in New London, a tiny community in East Texas. The resulting explosion leveled the four-year-old structure and resulted in a death toll of more than three hundred?most of them children. To this day, it is the worst school disaster in the history... more...
New Accountability
RoutledgeFalmer 2003; US$ 47.95When it comes to the issue of US education reform, hopeful politicians, liberal and conservative alike, have long touted the promises of 'standards-based accountability'. But do accountability-based reforms actually work? What happens when they encounter the formidable challenge of the comprehensive high school? The New Accountability explores the... more...
Privilege
Princeton University Press 2010; US$ 18.95As one of the most prestigious high schools in the nation, St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire, has long been the exclusive domain of America's wealthiest sons. But times have changed. Today, a new elite of boys and girls is being molded at St. Paul's, one that reflects the hope of openness but also the persistence of inequality. In Privilege... more...
Hip Hop Genius
R&L Education 2011; US$ 13.99In Hip Hop Genius, Sam Seidel introduces an iteration of hip-hop education that goes far beyond the usual approach of studying rap music as classroom content and looks instead at deeply honoring the knowledge of urban students. more...
Does Government Need to be Involved
Taylor and Francis 2000; US$ 161.00This book is an investigation of some of the policy issues related to the government's role in the reform of primary and secondary education in the United States. more...









