Central Park East And Its Graduates

Author : David Bensman
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807774427

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Central Park East and Its Graduates by David Bensman Pdf

In 1974, Central Park East Elementary School (CPE) in East Harlem opened its doors with a mission to provide inner-city children with the finest educators and pedagogy available. Instead of saying that the old neighborhood had to be torn down and students more rigidly tracked, the reformers dared to ask the question, What would happen if we gave inner-city students the best education the country has to offer? The results of this bottom-up reform were astounding, and to this day, Central Park East is known as one of the most academically enriching schools in the United States. David Bensman gives voice to the extraordinary young adults who emerged from poverty as a result of the powerful educational experiences they received at CPE. A rich compilation of stories, this account establishes the power of public schooling and the value of community. “With rich data, Bensman carefully details for us what it means to be respectful, thoughtful, democratic, and intellectually demanding—what it means, in short, to be a good school. This is the story of CPE, but for anyone willing to see beyond the particulars, it is also a map of possibility, a guide to what our schools could be.” —Mike Rose, author, Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America “This is that rare thing, a long-term study of the graduates of a first-rate inner city elementary school. This is a school in which democracy and the life of the mind are inseparably intertwined. Policymakers, write that last sentence down one hundred times.” —Joseph Featherstone, Michigan State University “Was the fame of CPE due to hype or yet another example of wishing trumping realities? This conceptually and procedurally honest research effort clearly answers the question in the negative. We have very good reason to be grateful to Debbie Meier, her CPE colleagues, and, of course, to Dr. Bensman for this remarkable follow-up study.” —Seymour Sarason, Professor Emeritus, Yale University

Author : David Bensman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 155 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807739936

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Central Park East and Its Graduates by David Bensman Pdf

In 1974, Central Park East Elementary School (CPE) in East Harlem opened its doors with a mission to provide inner-city children with the finest educators and pedagogy available. Instead of saying that the old neighborhood had to be torn down and students more rigidly tracked, the reformers dared to ask the question, What would happen if we gave inner-city students the best education the country has to offer? The results of this bottom-up reform were astounding, and to this day, Central Park East is known as one of the most academically enriching schools in the United States. David Bensman gives voice to the extraordinary young adults who emerged from poverty as a result of the powerful educational experiences they received at CPE. A rich compilation of stories, this account establishes the power of public schooling and the value of community.

Author : Wayne J. Urban,Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr.,Milton Gaither
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780429760181

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American Education by Wayne J. Urban,Jennings L. Wagoner, Jr.,Milton Gaither Pdf

American Education: A History, 6th edition is a comprehensive, highly-regarded history of American education from pre-colonial times to the present. Chronologically organized, it provides an objective overview of each major period in the development of American education, setting the discussion against the broader backdrop of national and world events. In addition to its in-depth exploration of Native American traditions (including education) prior to colonization, it also offers strong, ongoing coverage of minorities and women. This much-anticipated sixth edition brings heightened attention to the history of education of individuals with disabilities, of classroom pedagogy and technology, of teachers and teacher leaders, and of educational developments and controversies of the 21st century.

Author : Alia R. Tyner-Mullings
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317260363

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Enter the Alternative School by Alia R. Tyner-Mullings Pdf

Enter the Alternative School is an in-depth examination of public school alternatives to traditional educational models in the US. This book analyses how urban education can respond to a system growing increasingly standardised and privatised. As an example, Central Park East Secondary School (CPESS), a public alternative schooling model, successfully served predominantly low-income and minority students. It also changed the New York City public school system while promoting methods that allowed educational institutions to make changes in the lives of their students. Written by a sociologist who was both a student at CPESS and a teacher at a school developed from the CPESS model, the book analyses education from a range of vantage points, assesses outcomes, and invites readers to consider the potential of alternative educational models to address the challenges of reforms that attempt to provide quality education to the low-income and minority students otherwise under served by public schools.

Author : David Bensman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1036110862

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Building a Learning Community by David Bensman Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education, Urban
ISBN : OSU:32435069829414

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Success in the Urban Classroom by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1240 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105131835014

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ENC Focus by Anonim Pdf

Author : Clara Hemphill
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807746134

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New York City's Best Public Elementary Schools by Clara Hemphill Pdf

For nearly a decade, parents have looked to Clara Hemphill to help them find a great public school for their child. For this third edition, Clara and her staff visited nearly 500 of New York City's elementary schools and chose 200 of the best schools to recommend, with more than 70 new school profiles not included in the previous edition! This essential guide uncovers the inside scoop on schools (the condition of the building, homework, teacher quality, etc.), includes a checklist of questions to ask on a school tour, and incorporates new listings of charter schools and magnet programs.

Author : Andrea Gabor
Publisher : The New Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781620972007

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After the Education Wars by Andrea Gabor Pdf

“The education wars have been demoralizing for teachers. . . . After the Education Wars helps us to see a better way forward.” —Cathy N. Davidson, The New York Times Book Review “After the Education Wars is an important book that points the way to genuine reform.” —Diane Ravitch, author of Reign of Error and The Death and Life of the Great American School System A bestselling business journalist critiques the top-down approach of popular education reforms and profiles the unexpected success of schools embracing a nimbler, more democratic entrepreneurialism In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today’s reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and—contrary to popular belief—at odds with the best practices of thriving twenty-first-century companies as well. These rich, detailed stories of real reform in action illustrate how enduring change must be deeply collaborative and relentlessly focused on improvement from the grass roots up—lessons also learned from both the open-source software and quality movements. The good news is that solutions born of this philosophy are all around us: from Brockton, Massachusetts, where the state’s once-failing largest high school now sends most graduates to college, to Leander, Texas, a large district where school improvement, spurred by the ideas of quality guru W. Edwards Deming, has become a way of life. A welcome exception to the doom-and-gloom canon of education reform, After the Education Wars makes clear that what’s needed is not more grand ideas, but practical and informed ways to grow the best ones that are already transforming schools.

Author : David Bensman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Competency-based education
ISBN : OCLC:36882645

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Lives of the Graduates of Central Park East Elementary School by David Bensman Pdf

Author : Linda Darling-Hammond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : STANFORD:36105021000448

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Graduation by Portfolio at Central Park East Secondary School by Linda Darling-Hammond Pdf

Author : Daniel W. Stuckart,Jeffrey Glanz
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-11-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607090304

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Revisiting Dewey by Daniel W. Stuckart,Jeffrey Glanz Pdf

Nearly a century ago, Dewey proposed a philosophy of education addressing the needs of the whole student. He provided insights into the development of intelligence, the importance of socially useful skills, and the healthy growth of the individual. In the context of high-stakes testing and best practices, his insights may be more prescient than ever.

Author : Seymour Bernard Sarason
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2002-07-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807742433

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Educational Reform by Seymour Bernard Sarason Pdf

Professor Sarason candidly confronts his "errors of omission and commission, mistakes, and emphases" in his half-century involvement in educational reform. No other major figure in this arena has made public such a searching self-critique. Sharing his thoughts about the future of education, Sarason discusses his thinking on: charter schools, productive learning, motivation, high-stakes testing, the need for teachers to relate differently to each other and to parents, the importance of working through change, and the mistaken idea that we can clone reforms. Although written before the September 11th World Trade Center tragedy, the last chapter of this book is extraordinarily relevant to the subsequent national importance of societal values and responsible citizenship. Although this is a deliberately personally revealing book, Sarason's self-scrutiny will be stimulating and invaluable to anyone interested in reform as concept, action, and values.

Author : Deborah Meier
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2003-08-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807031518

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In Schools We Trust by Deborah Meier Pdf

We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states-as our national surrogates for trust. Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win our faith by showing they can do their job. But she argues just as fiercely that standardized testing is precisely the wrong way to that end. The tests themselves, she argues, cannot give the results they claim. And in the meantime, they undermine the kind of education we actually want. In this multilayered exploration of trust and schools, Meier critiques the ideology of testing and puts forward a different vision, forged in the success stories of small public schools she and her colleagues have created in Boston and New York. These nationally acclaimed schools are built, famously, around trusting teachers-and students and parents-to use their own judgment. Meier traces the enormous educational value of trust; the crucial and complicated trust between parents and teachers; how teachers need to become better judges of each others' work; how race and class complicate trust at all levels; and how we can begin to 'scale up' from the kinds of successes she has created.

Author : Edwin William Farrell
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0791418456

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Self and School Success by Edwin William Farrell Pdf

Data for the book were collected by young people in neighborhood schools who taped unstructured dialogue with successful students. Vignettes, told in the words of the young people themselves, address issues of schools and their relation to students' careers, the roles of teachers and parents, the support of community and religious agencies, as well as the influence of peers regarding drugs, violence, and sexuality.