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Charter schools are among the most debated and least understood phenomena in American education today. At the heart of these matters is a contested question of accountability. To survive, charter schools must make and keep promises about what stud...

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Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressing -and stubborn -public policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform.Strife and Progress explains for a ...

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Deficient urban schooling remains one of America's most pressingand stubbornpublic policy problems. This important new book details and evaluates a radical and promising new approach to K-12 education reform. Strife and Progress explains for a bro...

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"Every year, in one out of three big cities, the school superintendent leaves his or her job, sending local community leaders back to square one. Cleveland, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C., are struggling to recreate their failed school syste...

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"Mayoral takeovers of big city public education systems are desperation measures. After decades of decline in school quality, something must be done to make sure city children learn enough to function as adults in American society. But how ca...

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Bringing change to our public school system is hard, and the current system of education governance creates barriers that can make that reform even harder. Here six authorities in public education discuss how local philanthropies can overcome them...

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Bringing change to our public school system is hard, and the current system of education governance creates barriers that can make that reform even harder. Here six authorities in public education discuss how local philanthropies can overcome them...

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Charter schools are among the most debated and least understood phenomena in American education today. At the heart of these matters is a contested question of accountability. To survive, charter schools must make and keep promises about what stud...

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Paul T. Hill examines the real-world factors that can complicate, delay, and in some instances interfere with the positive cause-and-effect relationships identified by the theories behind school choice. He explains why schools of choice haven&apos...

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This review of the furious national debate over school choice examines the benefits of choice for children, families, and schoolsand shows how properly designed choice programs can prevent the harmful outcomes opponents fear.

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The expert contributors to this volume tell how state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them to ...

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The expert contributors to this volume tell how state laws and policies have stacked the deck against charter schools by limiting the number of charter schools allowed in a state, forbidding for-profit firms from holding charters, forcing them to ...

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The most compelling art form to emerge from the United States in the second half of the twentieth century, rock & roll stands in an edgy relationship with its own mythology, its own musicological history and the broader culture in which it pla...

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This report distills the experience of school systems that have instituted site-based management. Site-based management involves shifting the initiatives in public education from schoo boards, superintendents, and central administrative offices to...

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Brice Marden has furthered the traditions of abstraction with his exploration of surface, material, and colour, from his early monochromatic work to his more recent calligraphic compositions. In this body of work, Marden has turned his attention a...

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The authors first indicate how one must understand the old recognition that apparently individual behavior within any family must be understood in terms of the whole. They then investigate features of this whole, first as a local production and th...

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This updated, revised and expanded edition offers students and adults an overarching perspective on faith, religion and theology. Real-life stories and the voices of students struggling with a wide range of religious issues help to balance theoret...

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Exploring an important aspect of coming of age, this book examines how the black community can institutionalize rites of passage as part of the child-rearing process.

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Failure is always an option, and so is choosing to lead your team into an environment that helps them avoid catastrophe and pull off miracles. For more than fifty years, NASA's Mission Control has done just that. Take the ultimate insider's look a...

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Failure is always an option, and so is choosing to lead your team into an environment that helps them avoid catastrophe and pull off miracles. Discover how to enable this empowering leadership environment in your team.

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Fully updated and revised, this seminal book explains and illustrates what photographs are, how they were made and used in the past and, more particularly, what their place is in the creative arts and visual communications world of today. Paul Hil...

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Fully updated and revised, this seminal book explains and illustrates what photographs are, how they were made and used in the past and, more particularly, what their place is in the creative arts and visual communications world of today. Paul Hil...

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Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed in the last thirty years with particular contributions to metaph...

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Paul Helm is a distinguished philosopher, with particular interests in the philosophy of religion. His work covers some of the most important aspects of the field as it has developed in the last thirty years with particular contributions to metaph...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the Unit...

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You're the general surgeon on call. It is you who has to decide every course of action over your shift. Make the right decisions or face the consequences... Taking a role-playing approach, Make A Decision: Surgery allows you to be the book's main ...

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