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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Women Educators in the Progressive Era
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 95.00This book explores the experiences and writings of four teachers at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, both to investigate their lives as female professionals during the Progressive era, and to add to our understanding of this innovative institution and how these philosophies and innovations have carried out to this day. more...
Catching Up or Leading the Way
ASCD 2009; US$ 26.95Yong Zhao, a distinguished professor at Michigan State University who was born and raised in China, offers a compelling argument for what schools can?and must?do to meet the challenges and opportunities brought about by globalization and technology. more...
Why Not the Best Schools? The USA Report
Australian Council for Educational Research 2009; US$ 29.95Why Not the Best Schools?: The US Report is part of a set of six country reports that support Why Not the Best Schools? by Brian Caldwell and Jessica Harris (ACER Press 2008). Why Not the Best Schools? draws on the findings of the International Project to Frame the Transformation of Schools conducted in Australia, China, England, Finland, the United... more...
