The Essential Renewal Of America S Schools

Author : Carl Glickman,Ian M. Mette
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780807778630

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The Essential Renewal of America's Schools by Carl Glickman,Ian M. Mette Pdf

What can today’s educational leaders do to create schools that are purposeful, moral, and successful? In this book, Glickman and Mette provide a powerful set of guidelines that will lead to true school renewal. Using a practical framework for school, district, and community leaders, their roadmap replaces dependence on top-down state and federal regulations, focusing instead on the creation of locally guided initiatives to address local goals. Filled with real-world examples, charts, and illustrations, the text gives teachers, principals, students, parents, central office personnel, school boards, and community members exactly what is needed to remake their schools. Building on Glickman’s highly acclaimed classic, Renewing America’s Schools (1993), this resource is must-reading for anyone involved with school change in today’s divisive and complex times. “My life would have been a whole lot easier if this book had been written when I was in the principal’s office.” —George Wood, former principal and superintendent, Stuart Ohio “This timely and critical book demonstrates how teaching and learning, and a democratic school community, are the key assets to solving our problems. It is not just the future of our schools that is at stake, but democracy itself.” —William Mathis, National Education Policy Center

Author : Amy M. Hightower
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807742678

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School Districts and Instructional Renewal by Amy M. Hightower Pdf

This volume shows how school districts can and do make essential contributions to the renewal and enhancement of American education. It expands the conversation on what school districts are, what they do, and how they can enhance the quality of teaching and learning in US schools.

Author : Harold Kwalwasser
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781610486897

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Renewal by Harold Kwalwasser Pdf

Harold Kwalwasser has put together a call to action for education reform that makes a clear case for what has to be done in order to educate all children to their full potential. He visited forty high-performing and transforming school districts, charters, parochial, and private schools to understand why they have succeeded where others have failed. The analysis in Renewal: Remaking America's Schools for the Twenty-First Century brings together all of the necessary changes in one dynamic strategy. Many schools, even though facing seemingly impossible odds, have succeeded brilliantly. But their histories also reflect that there are neither silver bullets or demons. The heart of successful reform is systemic change, which requires the patience, understanding, and commitment of every adult who has a role in the process, from parents and taxpayers, to the school board members, superintendents, and teachers, and on to state legislators and members of Congress. Renewal offers a clear picture of how to move away from the mass-production style of education that most schools offered throughout the twentieth century to a new, more innovative, and flexible model that can meet this country's promise of truly educating every child and preparing each of them for the challenges ahead.

Author : Gilbert T. Sewall
Publisher : New York : Free Press ; London : Collier Macmillan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015005504892

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Necessary Lessons by Gilbert T. Sewall Pdf

The author's purpose "is to engender debate on what practices and aims reformers might pursue to stimulate educational quality"--Preface.

Author : Ted Sizer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781118584972

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The New American High School by Ted Sizer Pdf

The late Theodore Sizer's vision for a truly democratic public high school system Our current high schools are ill-designed and inefficient. We have inherited a program of studies that in its overall structure has not changed in over a century. The question is What's next? Theodore Sizer, the founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools, was a passionate advocate for the American school system. In this, his last book, he offers a vision of what a future secondary education might look like. In a book that tells the story of his own odyssey, Sizer gives shape to a much-needed agenda for improving our high schools. Includes a vision for the future of our High Schools from one of America's greatest leaders of educational reform Written by Theodore Sizer founder of The Coalition of Essential Schools and author of landmark book Horace's Compromise This final book from the late Theodore Sizer reveals the man and his vision for our secondary education system.

Author : Sharon L. Nichols,David C. Berliner
Publisher : Harvard Education Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612500805

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Collateral Damage by Sharon L. Nichols,David C. Berliner Pdf

Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education. This passionate and provocative book provides a fresh perspective on the issue and powerful ammunition for opponents of high-stakes tests. Their analysis is grounded in the application of Campbell’s Law, which posits that the greater the social consequences associated with a quantitative indicator (such as test scores), the more likely it is that the indicator itself will become corrupted—and the more likely it is that the use of the indicator will corrupt the social processes it was intended to monitor. Nichols and Berliner illustrate both aspects of this “corruption,” showing how the pressures of high-stakes testing erode the validity of test scores and distort the integrity of the education system. Their analysis provides a coherent and comprehensive intellectual framework for the wide-ranging arguments against high-stakes testing, while putting a compelling human face on the data marshalled in support of those arguments.

Author : Thomas Hatch,Jordan Corson,Sarah Gerth van den Berg
Publisher : Corwin Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2021-01-19
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781071838501

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The Education We Need for a Future We Can′t Predict by Thomas Hatch,Jordan Corson,Sarah Gerth van den Berg Pdf

Improve Schools and Transform Education In order for educational systems to change, we must reevaluate deep-seated beliefs about learning, teaching, schooling, and race that perpetuate inequitable opportunities and outcomes. Hatch, Corson, and Gerth van den Berg challenge the narrative when it comes to the "grammar of schooling"--or the conventional structures, practices, and beliefs that define educational experiences for so many children—to cast a new vision of what school could be. The book addresses current systemic problems and solutions as it: Highlights global examples of successful school change Describes strategies that improve educational opportunities and performance Explores promising approaches in developing new learning opportunities Outlines conditions for supporting wide-scale educational improvement This provocative book approaches education reform by highlighting what works, while also demonstrating what can be accomplished if we redefine conventional schools. We can make the schools we have more efficient, more effective, and more equitable, all while creating powerful opportunities to support all aspects of students’ development. "You won’t find a better book on system change in education than this one. We learn why schools don’t change; how they can improve; what it takes to change a system; and, in the final analysis, the possibilities of system change. Above all, The Education We Need renders complexity into clarity as the writing is so clear and compelling. A powerful read on a topic of utmost importance." ~Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, OISE/Universtiy of Toronto "I cannot recommend this book highly enough – Tom tackles long-standing and emerging educational issues in new ways with an impressive understanding of the challenging complexities, but also feasible possibilities, for ensuring excellence and equity for all students." ~Carol Campbell, Associate Professor, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Author : Steffan Silcox,Neil MacNeill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2021-03-14
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000358391

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Leading School Renewal by Steffan Silcox,Neil MacNeill Pdf

Leading School Renewal explores how school principal leadership behaviour impacts on school change endeavours, and in particular pedagogic renewal, which is a form of educational improvement that is primarily concerned with the growing of the knowledge, skills and beliefs of education in a manner that optimises students’ life options. The authors identify attributes of principals who have engaged in school renewal and examine the influences on their leadership behaviours and disposition towards renewing their schools while also acknowledging the influence of site-specific contextual variables. The authors propose that certain leadership behaviours exhibited by school principals are integral with renewing a school’s pedagogic focus. They argue renewal is a preferred form of sustainable educational change because it relates to deep-seated cultural changes in approaches to pedagogy, curriculum and school structures. Whilst also maintaining that leadership is at the heart of school improvement and principal leadership practices which are based on a clear sense of purpose, values and beliefs about learning and teaching can transform a school into a learning organisation. Including a foreword by Professor John Hattie, this book is appropriate for all school leaders and educators who want to learn more about school leadership behaviours and highly effective school change.

Author : Johann N. Neem
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2017-08
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781421423210

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Democracy's Schools by Johann N. Neem Pdf

The unknown history of American public education. At a time when Americans are debating the future of public education, Johann N. Neem tells the inspiring story of how and why Americans built a robust public school system in the decades between the Revolution and the Civil War. It’s a story in which ordinary people in towns across the country worked together to form districts and build schoolhouses and reformers sought to expand tax support and give every child a liberal education. By the time of the Civil War, most northern states had made common schools free, and many southern states were heading in the same direction. Americans made schooling a public good. Yet back then, like today, Americans disagreed over the kind of education needed, who should pay for it, and how schools should be governed. Neem explores the history and meaning of these disagreements. As Americans debated, teachers and students went about the daily work of teaching and learning. Neem takes us into the classrooms of yore so that we may experience public schools from the perspective of the people whose daily lives were most affected by them. Ultimately, Neem concludes, public schools encouraged a diverse people to see themselves as one nation. By studying the origins of America’s public schools, Neem urges us to focus on the defining features of democratic education: promoting equality, nurturing human beings, preparing citizens, and fostering civic solidarity.

Author : United States. Office of Education
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Agricultural colleges
ISBN : UOM:39015039505477

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Statistics of Land-grant Colleges and Universities by United States. Office of Education Pdf

Author : Carl D. Glickman
Publisher : Jossey-Bass
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998-02-25
Category : Education
ISBN : 0787940658

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Renewing America's Schools by Carl D. Glickman Pdf

NEW IN PAPERPBACK An excellent 'how-to-do-it book' for educators in schools and school districts who are involved in or about to begin major school-based reforms. ?Thomas W. Payzant, superintAndent of schools, San Diego, California Renewing America's Schools raises the most fundamental questions about the purpose of public education, the role of schools, and the needed school-based application to fulfill the promise of education in a democratic society. This is a book that shows teachers, principals, students, parents, central office personnel, school boards, and community members exactly what they need to do to create schools that are purposeful, moral, and successful places. A down-to-earth and provocative look at the school reform movement, Renewing America's Schools keeps the focus of renewal squarely on teaching and learning concerns. It is an invaluable resource for anyone involved with school change. Contents 1. Introduction: Recapturing the Essence of Schools Part One: A Framework for Renewing Schools 2. The Covenant: Establishing Common Principles of Teaching and Learning 3. The Charter: Understanding How Decisions Are Made 4. The Critical Study Process: Making the Most of Important Information Part Two: The Work of School Renewal 5. Educational Tasks and Organizational Readiness 6. Becoming an Educative Community 7. Dealing with Tough Questions of Practice 8. Supporting School Renewal: The District's Role 9. Common Dilemmas of Good Schools 10. Conclusion: Staying the Course Carl D. Glickman is professor of educational leadership and executive director of the Program for School Improvement at the University of Georgia.

Author : Barry S. Kogan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807736546

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Common Schools, Uncommon Futures by Barry S. Kogan Pdf

This text seeks to clarify what must be done to revitalize America's public schools. It identifies the underlying values at stake in controversies about educational reforms, showing how these impact upon students, teachers, families, administrators and entire systems.

Author : Sarah Mondale
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-16
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807042218

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School by Sarah Mondale Pdf

Esteemed historians of education David Tyack, Carl Kaestle, Diane Ravitch, James Anderson, and Larry Cuban journey through history and across the nation to recapture the idealism of our education pioneers, Thomas Jefferson and Horace Mann. We learn how, in the first quarter of the twentieth century, massive immigration, child labor laws, and the explosive growth of cities fueled school attendance and transformed public education, and how in the 1950s public schools became a major battleground in the fight for equality for minorities and women. The debate rages on: Do today's reforms challenge our forebears' notion of a common school for all Americans? Or are they our only recourse today? This lavishly illustrated companion book to the acclaimed PBS documentary, School, is essential reading for anyone who cares about public education.

Author : Carol McNamara,Trevor Shelley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781666923469

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Renewing America’s Civic Compact by Carol McNamara,Trevor Shelley Pdf

The essays in this volume address the chief challenges and principal tensions in the operation of our civil society in order to consider possible paths forward. It will be of interest to scholars of American history and politics, to thoughtful citizens and leaders facing present challenges, and to students and future Americans confronting the ongoing challenges of our times.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1186 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Christian education
ISBN : HARVARD:AH6AX8

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The Sunday School Helper by Anonim Pdf