New Frontiers in Education – serie
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39 produkter
Blueprint for School System Transformation
A Vision for Comprehensive Reform in Milwaukee and Beyond
Av Frederick Hess, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
Häftad, 2013
448 kr
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Despite widespread recognition that school systems need to do profoundly better, those seeking improvement have been persistently frustrated by the mediocre results of popular reforms. School and system leaders, policy-makers, and funders lack clear guidance as to the steps necessary to …
Blueprint for School System Transformation
A Vision for Comprehensive Reform in Milwaukee and Beyond
Av Frederick Hess, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj
E-bok, 2013
474 kr
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Despite widespread recognition that school systems need to do profoundly better, those seeking improvement have been persistently frustrated by the mediocre results of popular reforms. School and system leaders, policy-makers, and funders lack clear guidance as to the steps necessary to …
Breaking the Cycle
How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges
Inbunden, 2013
904 kr
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Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not …
Breaking the Cycle
How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges
Häftad, 2013
504 kr
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Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not …
Breaking the Cycle
How Schools Can Overcome Urban Challenges
E-bok, 2013
545 kr
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Breaking the Cycle tells the inspiring story of young people whom many would write off as a lost cause but who, thanks to a remarkable school, are headed for success. We learn about their world from teens like Shawna, the daughter of a crack-addicted mother. Or Andre, the only one in his family not …
What's A Parent to Do?
How to Help Your Child Select the Right College
Av Anne D. Neal
Inbunden, 2017
835 kr
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Each year over a million newly-minted high school graduates enroll in four-year colleges and universities across the country. They do so often after a lengthy and almost always stressful selection process. Faced with growing evidence of declining standards, rising political correctness and …
What's A Parent to Do?
How to Help Your Child Select the Right College
Av Anne D. Neal
Häftad, 2017
448 kr
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Each year over a million newly-minted high school graduates enroll in four-year colleges and universities across the country. They do so often after a lengthy and almost always stressful selection process. Faced with growing evidence of declining standards, rising political correctness and …
What's A Parent to Do?
How to Help Your Child Select the Right College
Av Anne D. Neal
E-bok, 2017
485 kr
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Each year over a million newly-minted high school graduates enroll in four-year colleges and universities across the country. They do so often after a lengthy and almost always stressful selection process. Faced with growing evidence of declining standards, rising political correctness and …
New and Better Schools
The Supply Side of School Choice
Inbunden, 2014
1180 kr
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In the past decade, the number of students enrolled in private school choice programs has grown ten-fold. But granting students access to public financing for their private education has not led to the vibrant marketplace of school options many of its supporters envisioned. If school choice policy …
New and Better Schools
The Supply Side of School Choice
Häftad, 2014
600 kr
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In the past decade, the number of students enrolled in private school choice programs has grown ten-fold. But granting students access to public financing for their private education has not led to the vibrant marketplace of school options many of its supporters envisioned. If school choice policy …
Trendsetting Charter Schools
Raising the Bar for Civic Education
Av Gary J. Schmitt, Cheryl Miller
Inbunden, 2015
973 kr
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This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment. This volume makes the case that the rediscovery of the civic mission of schooling is not at odds with the broader education reform movement. These …
Trendsetting Charter Schools
Raising the Bar for Civic Education
Av Gary J. Schmitt, Cheryl Miller
Häftad, 2015
504 kr
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This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment. This volume makes the case that the rediscovery of the civic mission of schooling is not at odds with the broader education reform movement. These …
Working for Kids
Educational Leadership as Inquiry and Invention
Inbunden, 2010
1318 kr
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Much of the current discourse on improving school leadership, and particularly the performance of principals, is misguided. There is much too much emphasis on evaluation and standards as determined by policy makers and professors and not nearly enough attention to how one provides …
Working for Kids
Educational Leadership as Inquiry and Invention
Häftad, 2010
587 kr
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Much of the current discourse on improving school leadership, and particularly the performance of principals, is misguided. There is much too much emphasis on evaluation and standards as determined by policy makers and professors and not nearly enough attention to how one provides …
Working for Kids
Educational Leadership as Inquiry and Invention
E-bok, 2010
636 kr
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Much of the current discourse on improving school leadership, and particularly the performance of principals, is misguided. There is much too much emphasis on evaluation and standards as determined by policy makers and professors and not nearly enough attention to how one provides …
Choosing Excellence in Public Schools
Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Av David W. Hornbeck, Katherine Conner
Inbunden, 2009
1663 kr
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Choosing Excellence in Public Schools explains the origins of the low expectations we have of children, including, notably, children of color, those for whom English is a second language, poor children and children with disabilities. The book dispels the basis for low expectations. It makes clear …
Choosing Excellence in Public Schools
Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Av David W. Hornbeck, Katherine Conner
Häftad, 2009
833 kr
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Choosing Excellence in Public Schools explains the origins of the low expectations we have of children, including, notably, children of color, those for whom English is a second language, poor children and children with disabilities. The book dispels the basis for low expectations. It makes clear …
Choosing Excellence in Public Schools
Where There's a Will, There's a Way
Av David W. Hornbeck, Katherine Conner
E-bok, 2009
864 kr
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Choosing Excellence in Public Schools explains the origins of the low expectations we have of children, including, notably, children of color, those for whom English is a second language, poor children and children with disabilities. The book dispels the basis for low expectations. It makes clear …
Social Entrepreneurship in Education
Private Ventures for the Public Good
Inbunden, 2010
1318 kr
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Social Entrepreneurship in Education chronicles the twenty-five-year history of entrepreneurs who responded to the call of A Nation at Risk and helped launch an education industry. It tells the story of these "education entrepreneurs" and the lessons they learned, using entrepreneurial skills to …
Social Entrepreneurship in Education
Private Ventures for the Public Good
Häftad, 2010
613 kr
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Social Entrepreneurship in Education chronicles the twenty-five-year history of entrepreneurs who responded to the call of A Nation at Risk and helped launch an education industry. It tells the story of these "education entrepreneurs" and the lessons they learned, using entrepreneurial skills to …
Social Entrepreneurship in Education
Private Ventures for the Public Good
E-bok, 2010
625 kr
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Social Entrepreneurship in Education chronicles the twenty-five-year history of entrepreneurs who responded to the call of A Nation at Risk and helped launch an education industry. It tells the story of these "education entrepreneurs" and the lessons they learned, using entrepreneurial skills to …
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Av Julian R. Betts, Paul T. Hill
Inbunden, 2010
1663 kr
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Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter …
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Av Julian R. Betts, Paul T. Hill
Häftad, 2010
696 kr
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Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter …
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
Better Assessments, Better Policymaking, Better Schools
Av Julian R. Betts, Paul T. Hill
E-bok, 2010
710 kr
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Charter schools offer something that public school systems, parents, and teachers need: a way to experiment with alternative ways of teaching, motivating students, organizing schools, using technology, and employing teachers. While people came down on both sides of support for or against charter …
From Family Collapse to America's Decline
The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation
Häftad, 2011
448 kr
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Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making …
From Family Collapse to America's Decline
The Educational, Economic, and Social Costs of Family Fragmentation
E-bok, 2011
485 kr
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Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways. This in turn is damaging the country economically by making us less primed for innovation while also making …
Urban School System of the Future
Applying the Principles and Lessons of Chartering
Av Andy Smarick
Inbunden, 2012
1249 kr
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For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system—the district—has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of …
Urban School System of the Future
Applying the Principles and Lessons of Chartering
Av Andy Smarick
Häftad, 2012
585 kr
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For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system—the district—has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of …
Urban School System of the Future
Applying the Principles and Lessons of Chartering
Av Andy Smarick
E-bok, 2012
623 kr
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For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system—the district—has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of …
It's the Classroom, Stupid
A Plan to Save America's Schoolchildren
Inbunden, 2010
1663 kr
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This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system. The plan reflects the author's rare fusion of on-the-ground experience as school board member, public administrator and political activist and exhaustive policy research. The …