Changing Urban Education
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Changing Urban Education
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Author : Clarence Nathan Stone
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Changing Urban Education written by Clarence Nathan Stone and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Education categories.
With critical issues like desegregation and funding facing our schools, dissatisfaction with public education has reached a new high. Teachers decry inadequate resources while critics claim educators are more concerned with job security than effective teaching. Though urban education has reached crisis proportions, contending players have difficulty agreeing on a common program of action. This book tells why. Changing Urban Education confronts the prevailing naivete in school reform by examining the factors that shape, reinforce, or undermine reform efforts. Edited by one of the nation's leading urban scholars, it examines forces for change and resistance in urban education and proposes that the barrier to reform can only be overcome by understanding how schools fit into the broader political contexts of their cities. Much of the problem with our schools lies with the reluctance of educators to recognize the profoundly political character of public education. The contributors show how urban political contexts vary widely with factors like racial composition, the role of the teachers' union, and relations between cities and surrounding metropolitan areas. Presenting case studies of original field research in Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, and six other urban areas, they consider how resistance to desegregation and the concentration of the poor in central urban areas affect education, and they suggest how cities can build support for reform through the involvement of business and other community players. By demonstrating the complex interrelationship between urban education and politics, this book shows schools to be not just places for educating children, but also major employers and large spenders of tax dollars. It also introduces the concept of civic capacity—the ability of educators and non-educators to work together on common goals—and suggests that this key issue must be addressed before education can be improved. Changing Urban Education makes it clear to educators that the outcome of reform efforts depends heavily on their political context as it reminds political scientists that education is a major part of the urban mix. While its prognosis is not entirely optimistic, it sets forth important guidelines that cannot be ignored if our schools are to successfully prepare children for the future.
Changing Urban Education
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Author : Simon Pratt-Adams
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2010-04-08
Changing Urban Education written by Simon Pratt-Adams and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-04-08 with Education categories.
Changing Urban Education considers the way we approach teaching and learning in the urban context and examines the debates concerning developments in wider social, cultural, political and economic contexts. Grounded in a strong conceptual, theoretical framework, this accessible text will guide the reader through this evolving area. Reflective exercises, interviews, chapter summaries and useful websites will encourage and support student learning and the application of new concepts. Recent debates and developments are considered, including: * The city as a social, cultural and economic resource * Virtual communities * The impact of the forces of globalisation on urban education * Challenging schools and urban policy * Mobile urban learning Changing Urban Education is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students on education studies and related courses.
The Changing Urban School
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Author : Robert Thornbury
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
The Changing Urban School written by Robert Thornbury and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Education, Urban categories.
The author takes a long look at what goes on in schools, and the roles played by people specifically concerned with them: but finally the problems of the school are seen as indissolubly bound up with the changes that have overtaken urban life. The school cannot be isolated, teachers, administrators, planners and parents must actively co-operate in making the school work in society and a society which works for the school. Nothing other than such a total vision, he concludes, will enable us to achieve normal educational goals. Robert Thornbury writes out of fifteen years experience of the urban school and of the problems not only of Britain but also those sometime similar, often more acute, of other countries, in particular the United States and Australia. The need for a total urban strategy is worldwide. His point of view is broad-based but his sympathies lie most of all with the hard-working teacher who stayed on in the urban classroom. It is a book for teachers therefore, but also, by its own argument, for all concerned with the future of the inner-city and the reordering of education.
So Much Reform So Little Change
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Author : Charles M. Payne
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
So Much Reform So Little Change written by Charles M. Payne and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Education categories.
This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today's urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighborhoods. Charles M. Payne argues that we have failed to account fully for the weakness of the social infrastructure and the often dysfunctional organizational environments of urban schools and school systems. The result is that liberals and conservatives alike have spent a great deal of time pursuing questions of limited practical value in the effort to improve city schools. Payne carefully delineates these stubborn and intertwined sources of failure in urban school reform efforts of the past two decades. Yet while his book is unsparing in its exploration of the troubled recent history of urban school reform, Payne also describes himself as "guardedly optimistic." He describes how, in the last decade, we have developed real insights into the roots of school failure, and into how some individual schools manage to improve. He also examines recent progress in understanding how particular urban districts have established successful reforms on a larger scale. Drawing on a striking array of sources--from the recent history of various urban school systems, to the growing sophistication of education research, to his own experience as a teacher, scholar, and participant in reform efforts--Payne paints a vivid and unmistakably realistic portrait of urban schools and reforms of the past few decades. So Much Reform, So Little Change will be required reading for everyone interested in the plight--and the future--of urban schools.
The Multiple Faces Of Agency
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2008-01-01
The Multiple Faces Of Agency written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Education categories.
This timely edited volume examines the education of children and youth in urban settings and offers compelling alternatives for successfully engaging them in school learning. Urban schools serve a large proportion of students who are poor, of color, and speakers of languages other than English.
World Yearbook Of Education 1992
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Author : David Coulby
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-09-05
World Yearbook Of Education 1992 written by David Coulby and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-05 with Education categories.
Published in the year 2005, World Yearbook of Education is a valuable contribution to the field of Major Works.
Change D Agents
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Author : Betty Achinstein
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 2015-04-24
Change D Agents written by Betty Achinstein and has been published by Teachers College Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-24 with Education categories.
This book examines both the promises and complexities of racially and culturally diversifying todays teaching profession. Drawing from a 5-year study of the lives of 21 new teachers of color working in urban, hard-to-staff schools, this book documents the tensions these teachers experience between serving as role models and fulfilling district and state mandates.
The Urban School Improvement Plan
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Author : Julius R. Lockett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-05-30
The Urban School Improvement Plan written by Julius R. Lockett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-30 with categories.
The Urban School Improvement Plan: Changing School Climate and Culture through Relationships, Resources and Restorative Justice is about improving urban underserved schools' climate and culture through the implementation of the Plan. The book provides a clear path to the execution for the process.
Changing Urban Landscapes Through Public Higher Education
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Author : Burtin, Anika Spratley
language : en
Publisher: IGI Global
Release Date : 2018-04-06
Changing Urban Landscapes Through Public Higher Education written by Burtin, Anika Spratley and has been published by IGI Global this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-06 with Education categories.
Outreach and engagement initiatives are crucial in promoting community development. This can be achieved through a number of methods, including institutions of higher education. Changing Urban Landscapes Through Public Higher Education is a critical scholarly resource that examines the unique ways in which the faculty and students of the public institution of higher learning, in and for the nation’s capital, connect to the community. Featuring coverage on a broad range of topics such as civic engagement, service learning, and teacher preparation, this book is geared towards educators, administration, academicians, researchers, and students seeking current research on collaborative efforts between communities and institutions of higher education.
Changing Urban Education
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Author : Simon Pratt-Adams
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-06-10
Changing Urban Education written by Simon Pratt-Adams and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-10 with Education categories.
Introduces the debate surrounding teaching and learning in urban settings in contemporary Britain, and the impact this has on education. >