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Becoming Good American Schools
Author | : Jeannie Oakes,Karen Hunter Quartz,Steve Ryan,Martin Lipton |
Publsiher | : Jossey-Bass |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2002-04-04 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0787962244 |
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"A convincing portrait of teachers actively engaged in educational reform...offering a hopeful yet realistic vision of revitalized democracy inspired by a passion for the public good. This book is an eloquent defense of civic virtue." —Jonathan Kozol, author of Amazing Grace and Savage Inequalities "Rich, realistic, invigorating, and scary. Any middle school educator who has been part of an effort to reform the educational process will see himself or herself in this book--as the brave risk taker, the naive visionary, the frightened frontline trooper, and the touched individual who can make a difference." —Judy Cunningham, principal, South Lake Middle School, Irvine, California This book tells the stories of sixteen schools in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Texas, and Vermont that sought to alter their structures and practices and become places fostering innovative ideas, caring people, principles of social justice, and democratic processes. Based on longitudinal, comparative case-study research, these accounts attest to the power of committing to public virtue and the struggle of educators to transform that commitment into changed school practice. The authors argue that better schools will come only when policy makers, educators, and citizens move beyond technical and bureaucratic reforms to engage in the same educative, socially just, caring, and participatory processes they want for schoolchildren. Those processes constitute betterment--both the means and the ends of school reform. Becoming Good American Schools is for administrators, policy makers, practitioners, and citizens who are prepared to blend inspiration and caution, idealism and skepticism in their own pursuit of good schools.
The Death and Life of the Great American School System
Author | : Diane Ravitch |
Publsiher | : Basic Books (AZ) |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2010-03-02 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780465014910 |
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Discusses how school choice, misapplied standards of accountability, the No Child Left Behind mandate, and the use of a corporate model have all led to a decline in public education and presents arguments for a return to strong neighborhood schools and quality teaching.
Political Spectacle and the Fate of American Schools
Author | : Mary Lee Smith,Linda Miller-Kahn,Walter Heinecke,Patricia F. Jarvis |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2004-02-02 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781135954673 |
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The authors argue that the most influential and well-known educational policy programs in the past 30 years are not based on democratic consensus, but are instead formulated by the political community as symbolic efforts meant to generate personal partisan gain.
IMPROVING SCHOOLS FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN STUDENTS
Author | : Sheryl J. Denbo,Lynson Moore Beaulieu |
Publsiher | : Charles C Thomas Publisher |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2002-01-01 |
Genre | : Academic achievement |
ISBN | : 9780398083656 |
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Improving Schools for African American Students is designed to provide educational leaders with a better understanding of how to recognize the diversity of strengths that Black students bring with them to school and how to use these strengths to improve achievement. The articles contained in this book discuss generic education issues such as policy reform, the importance of high quality teaching, and the improvement of schools from the perspective of the academic achievement of African American students. Part I explores institutional racism in the context of America's public schools and provides suggestions for educational leaders to eliminate harmful policies and practices within educational institutions and settings. Part II discusses the kinds of institutional and instructional changes that are needed to support successful schooling of African American children and youth. Part III focuses on the challenges presented to African American students by the current high stakes testing environment that surrounds standards, assessment, and accountability. A review of the literature on schools that have succeeded in improving achievement for African American students at the elementary, middle, and high school levels with districts moving towards narrowing the achievement gap is included. This text examines a wide variety of policies, programs, practices, and research that will provide valuable insight. The emphasis throughout the book is on the ability of educators to successfully restructure their schools, offer high quality teaching and learning standards for African American students and to make the kinds of changes that will result in high achievement for all students.
Becoming a Multicultural Educator
Author | : William A. Howe,Penelope L. Lisi |
Publsiher | : SAGE Publications |
Total Pages | : 687 |
Release | : 2015-12-30 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781483365060 |
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2013 Recipient of Philip C. Chinn Award from the National Association of Multicultural Education Providing an essential foundation for pre-service and in-service PK-12 educators, this engaging and practical book focuses on essential questions and theoretical concepts about becoming a multicultural educator. Award-winning authors William A. Howe and Penelope L. Lisi bring theory and research to life through numerous activities, exercises, and lesson plans designed to heighten the reader’s cultural awareness, knowledge base, and skill set. Responding to the growing need to increase academic achievement and to prepare teachers to work with diverse populations of students, this text show readers how to incorporate cultural knowledge into more effective classroom practice. The fully updated Second Edition is packed with new activities and exercises to illustrate concepts readers can apply within their own classrooms and school-wide settings.
Why is it So Hard to Get Good Schools
Author | : Larry Cuban |
Publsiher | : Teachers College Press |
Total Pages | : 108 |
Release | : 2003-01-11 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780807742945 |
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Providing a strong counter voice to today's standards-based reform, this book features powerful ideas on teacher education, curriculum, and school administration in an accessible lecture style by Larry Cuban, an experienced teacher, administrator, and acclaimed author. Based on Cuban's Julius and Rosa Sachs Lectures for 2001-2002, this volume is a must-read for everyone interested in improving our schools.
The Schools Our Children Deserve
Author | : Alfie Kohn |
Publsiher | : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0618083456 |
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Arguing against the tougher standards rhetoric that marks the current education debate, the author of No Contest and Punished by Rewards writes that such tactics squeeze the pleasure out of learning. Reprint.
Urban High Schools
Author | : Annette B. Hemmings |
Publsiher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2012-03-12 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781136835872 |
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This multidisciplinary overview introduces readers to the historical, sociological, anthropological, and political foundations of urban public secondary schooling and to possibilities for reform. Focused on critical and problematic elements, the text provides a comprehensive description and analyses of urban public high schooling through different yet intertwined disciplinary lenses. Students and researchers seeking to inform their work with urban high schools from social, cultural, and political perspectives will find the theoretical frameworks and practical applications useful in their own studies of, or initiatives related to, urban public high schools. Each chapter includes concept boxes with synopses of key ideas, summations, and discussion questions.