Saving Our Schools

Author : Kenneth S. Goodman
Publisher : RDR Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Education
ISBN : 1571431020

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Saving Our Schools by Kenneth S. Goodman Pdf

"Saving Our Schools exposes the ugly side of President George Bush's "No Child Left Behind" mandate, which has threatened to close more than 6,000 public schools, to the detriment of dedicated teachers and disadvantaged children alike. Revealing how NCLB forces schools with strictly limited resources to teach its children test-taking skills in a desperate bid to pass high-stakes standardized testing, and how the government blacklists successful professors, institutions, and methods that balk the NCLB party line, and much more, Saving Our Schools warns of an immediate threat to the integrity of public education and urges the reader to take action. An eye-opening social commentary, of keen importance in determining the nation's future. -Midwest Book Review

Author : Robert D. Barr,William H. Parrett
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2007-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452294766

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Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools by Robert D. Barr,William H. Parrett Pdf

This field-tested resource outlines effective approaches for improving student learning, proficiency, and achievement at all levels through learning-focused priorities, results-driven practices, and high academic expectations.

Author : Paul E. Peterson
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-03-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674050118

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Saving Schools by Paul E. Peterson Pdf

In this book Peterson interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking to our own era by scrutinizing the often unanticipated consequences of their commitments and ideas. These extraordinary individuals provided the critical ideas and articulated the ideals that motivated many others to search for ways to save the schools from the limitations in which they were embedded: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King, Al Shanker, William Bennett, and James S. Coleman. The drive to centralize was pervasive despite repeatedly expressed reform desire to customize education. Peterson argues that education has become an increasingly labor intensive industry that must reverse direction and become more capital intensive or it will descend in quality. Fortunately, technological change is making it possible radically alter the way in which education services are delivered, providing a new chance to save our schools.

Author : Jennifer Katz
Publisher : Portage & Main Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-04
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781553797432

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Ensouling Our Schools by Jennifer Katz Pdf

In an educational milieu in which standards and accountability hold sway, schools can become places of stress, marginalization, and isolation instead of learning communities that nurture a sense of meaning and purpose. In Ensouling Our Schools, author Jennifer Katz weaves together methods of creating schools that engender mental, spiritual, and emotional health while developing intellectual thought and critical analysis. Kevin Lamoureux contributes his expertise regarding Indigenous approaches to mental and spiritual health that benefit all students and address the TRC Calls to Action.

Author : Robert D. Barr,William H. Parrett
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781452297910

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Saving Our Students, Saving Our Schools by Robert D. Barr,William H. Parrett Pdf

This field-tested resource outlines effective approaches for improving student learning, proficiency, and achievement at all levels through learning-focused priorities, results-driven practices, and high academic expectations.

Author : Roger C. Schank
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-17
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807770900

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Teaching Minds by Roger C. Schank Pdf

From grade school to graduate school, from the poorest public institutions to the most affluent private ones, our educational system is failing students. In his provocative new book, cognitive scientist and bestselling author Roger Schank argues that class size, lack of parental involvement, and other commonly-cited factors have nothing to do with why students are not learning. The culprit is a system of subject-based instruction and the solution is cognitive-based learning. This groundbreaking book defines what it would mean to teach thinking. The time is now for schools to start teaching minds!

Author : Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.)
Publisher : The Fraser Institute
Page : 10 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Privatization in education
ISBN : 9780889751859

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Can the Market Save Our Schools? by Fraser Institute (Vancouver, B.C.) Pdf

Author : Meredith Liben,David Liben
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 1943920699

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Know Better, Do Better by Meredith Liben,David Liben Pdf

Meredith and David Liben have spent decades transforming education, working as teachers, researchers, leaders, and founders of an alternative public elementary school in Harlem"€"the Family Academy. The Libens have been on the front lines of the reading wars since 1994, when the Family Academy's first cohort of students failed the NYC end of year reading exam and they were confronted with the question: How can a school with plenty of resources, dedication to outstanding instruction, and support for social and emotional learning fail so spectacularly at teaching children how to read? The answers are collected here in Know Better, Do Better: Teaching the Foundations So Every Child Can Read. The Libens have poured through the research, pedagogical movements, and deeply entrenched classroom myths to find the literacy practices and instructional materials that actually improve student learning outcomes. Through their work, the Family Academy reading scores rose to the highest of any non"€"gifted school in Harlem. The best of intentions aren't enough to make children literate; educators have to know better so they can do better.

Author : Ralph E. Robinson,Barbara A. Beswick
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780595128198

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Save Our Schools by Ralph E. Robinson,Barbara A. Beswick Pdf

Work dedicated to educating each child appropriately and identifying at-risk youngsters by Grade Two and salvaging them by Grade Eight.

Author : Diane Ravitch
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-01-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780525655381

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Slaying Goliath by Diane Ravitch Pdf

From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, Slaying Goliath is an impassioned, inspiring look at the ways in which parents, teachers, and activists are successfully fighting back to defeat the forces that are trying to privatize America’s public schools. Diane Ravitch writes of a true grassroots movement sweeping the country, from cities and towns across America, a movement dedicated to protecting public schools from those who are funding privatization and who believe that America’s schools should be run like businesses and that children should be treated like customers or products. Slaying Goliath is about the power of democracy, about the dangers of plutocracy, and about the potential of ordinary people—armed like David with only a slingshot of ideas, energy, and dedication—to prevail against those who are trying to divert funding away from our historic system of democratically governed, nonsectarian public schools. Among the lessons learned from the global pandemic of 2020 is the importance of our public schools and their teachers and the fact that distance learning can never replace human interaction, the pesonal connection between teachers and students.

Author : Al Guzzi
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-03-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781479799220

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Save Our Children, Save Our Schools by Al Guzzi Pdf

It has been said that education is merely a reflection of society. Pathway to Success explores the changes in our society that have had a profoundly negative impact on students by creating such "Barriers to Learning" that many students cannot overcome. Our middle schools and high schools have become so subject matter oriented that many students do not feel any connection to their school. Pathway to Success sets forth a plan to assist students to overcome the "Barriers to Learning."The plan is focused on the student, highly individualized and meaningful. It provides the student with a connection to the school like never before. Professional staff will know their students well as they implement their individual education plan. Students’ academic as well as their social needs will be met. Students, who display serious behavioral problems, including signs of mental disorders, will be referred to appropriate professionals for help. The implementation of this plan will promote greater student achievement; fewer discipline problems, and a safer school environment. It will make education not just a reflection of society but a changing force.

Author : Phil Boyle,Del Burns
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610485432

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Preserving the Public in Public Schools by Phil Boyle,Del Burns Pdf

The question that 23-year old Amalia Hastings wants the answer to is: What happens to men when they move to Manhattan? Life in the city gives Amalia a ride she is not expecting. As she tries to find her way on the little island that never sleeps, she discovers she has a harder time navigating through life then she does the streets of Greenwich Village and finds herself truly lost in the complex world of men, graduate school, money, family, and friendship. She thought she had everything she wanted - a new apartment in Manhattan, a first-rate education at NYU, a group of trusted friends and Nicholas, a boyfriend who she once believed was her soul-mate. But somehow, it isn't enough. Stumbling through her relationships, Amalia encounters Michael. An attractive classmate who quickly moves from being one of her close friends, to an inconsistent friend-with-benefits. After all, the only thing consistent about New York is its beauty. After getting terribly lost searching for love in all the wrong places, Amalia finds herself torn between the possibility of a relationship, and an adventure she's been planning all along. She eventually realizes that solely chasing love closes her off to all of the other good things life has to offer. Now she must decide - what is worth the chase? "Chase" is the debut novel from author Jill Knapp-Zitron and the first in the "Chase" series of novels.

Author : Donald R. McAdams
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807738840

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Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools-- and Winning! by Donald R. McAdams Pdf

Don McAdams, one of a small group of activists elected to the Houston Independent School District Board of Education in 1989, provides a fast moving first-person account of successful reform in the nation’s seventh largest school district. With tact and wisdom, the author shows that school reform is seldom about reading, writing, and arithmetic. Rather, it is mostly about power, status, and money. This is a great story filled with conflict and surprising turns of fate. No one interested in politics, governance, and management of urban school districts can afford to miss Fighting to Save Our Urban Schools . . . and Winning!

Author : Dr. Rudolph Crew
Publisher : Sarah Crichton Books
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2007-08-07
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781466821637

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Only Connect by Dr. Rudolph Crew Pdf

An inspiring new vision for America's public schools from one of the nation's top educators American fourth graders score twelfth in the world in math skills, after Latvia and Hungary. Our eighth graders are fifteenth, below Malaysia and Slovakia. And by the time they're fifteen years old, our students have slipped off the map—to twenty-fourth place internationally. If these stats don't make you angry or ashamed or plain sad, then at the very least they should make you afraid. If matters don't change soon, tens of millions of our sons and daughters will grow up unable to function—let alone compete—in a global economy. And the impact of that on all of us will be devastating. All is not lost, though, says Rudy Crew, who has headed some of the largest and most daunting school systems in America. Not by any means. Only Connect is a call for not just parents but the entire nation to reconceive our relationship with public education. If we're to survive, we must place our schools at the center of our communities and partner with them to produce children with the full set of the tools they'll need—personal, civic, and occupational as well as academic—to face the economic challenges that lie ahead. Much like Thomas Friedman in The World Is Flat, Crew shows us the reality of our schools in a new century, and what we each must do to create the next generation of mature and conscious contributors to society. From parents who demand only the best from their children and their schools, through our teachers and administrators, all the way to Washington, D.C., everyone has a role in restoring American education and America's competitive edge.

Author : Participant Media
Publisher : Public Affairs
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2010-09-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781586489274

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Waiting for ""SUPERMAN"" by Participant Media Pdf

The Sundance award-winning documentary "Waiting for Superman" chronicles the efforts to improve America's education system. In this Participant Media Guide, leading educational reformers explore how to fix our broken public school system.