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Choosing small
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Lisette Lopez,Katherine G. Simon,Jay Feldman,Jay Feldman |
"With low achievement and high drop-out rates plaguing our larger public high schools, communities across the country are creating smaller, more personalized schools that share a larger campus. Drawi… |
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American Schools
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William H Cosby |
From Bill Cosby, actor, entertainer, and "New York Times" bestselling author of "Fatherhood" and "Congratulations (Now What?)" comes a groundbreaking eBook with the potential to reinvent education in… |
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Mothers united
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Andrea Dyrness |
"In urban American school systems, the children of recent immigrants and low-income parents of color disproportionately suffer from overcrowded classrooms, lack of access to educational resources, an… |
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Tyranny of the textbook
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Beverlee Jobrack |
"In Tyranny of the Textbook, a retired educational director, gives a fascinating look behind-the-scenes of how K-12 textbooks are developed, written, adopted, and sold. Readers will come to understan… |
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Urban education
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Karen S. Gallagher |
"Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual an… |
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Saving the school
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Michael Brick |
"An unstoppable principal's race to save a failing high school from falling short of its numbers and closing its doors forever. Anabel Garza: No school board would have put her forward as a model pri… |
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The new education
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Cathy N. Davidson |
Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925, when the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, in an attempt to prepare young peop… |
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The opportunity equation
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Eric Schwarz |
"Citizen Schools is a fresh and personal look at education and the increasingly unequal access to opportunity in America. The book gets beyond the tired debate about charter schools and unions and te… |
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A Light Shines in Harlem
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Mary C. Bounds |
A Light Shines in Harlem tells the fascinating history of New York 's first charter school, the Sisulu-Walker Charter School of Harlem, and the early days of the state's charter school movement. Told… |
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Degrees of inequality
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Suzanne Mettler |
"America's higher education system is failing its students. In the space of a generation, we have gone from being the best-educated society in the world to one in which a college degree benefits only… |
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The art of play
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Anna R. Beresin |
"What can the art of play teach us about the art of play? Showcasing the paintings of more than one hundred Philadelphia public elementary school children, folklorist Anna Beresin's innovative book T… |
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Educational courage
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Mara Sapon-Shevin,Nancy Schniedewind |
"Ten years after the passage of No Child Left Behind, high-stakes testing, national standards, and turn-around policies remain highly controversial. In the same period, we have seen the rise of mayor… |
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