Schools Without Failure
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Schools Without Failure
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Author : William Glasser
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1975
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Schools Without Fail
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Author : William Glasser, M.D.
language : en
Publisher: Harper Collins
Release Date : 2011-02-01
Schools Without Fail written by William Glasser, M.D. and has been published by Harper Collins this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-02-01 with Education categories.
The author of the bestselling Reality Therapy offers daring recommendations to "shake up educators" (Alexander Bassin).
How Schools Work
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Author : Arne Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2018-08-07
How Schools Work written by Arne Duncan and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-07 with Education categories.
“This book merits every American’s serious consideration” (Vice President Joe Biden): from the Secretary of Education under President Obama, an exposé of the status quo that helps maintain a broken system at the expense of our kids’ education, and threatens our nation’s future. “Education runs on lies. That’s probably not what you’d expect from a former Secretary of Education, but it’s the truth.” So opens Arne Duncan’s How Schools Work, although the title could just as easily be How American Schools Work for Some, Not for Others, and Only Now and Then for Kids. Drawing on nearly three decades in education—from his mother’s after-school program on Chicago’s South Side to his tenure as Secretary of Education in Washington, DC—How Schools Work follows Arne (as he insists you call him) as he takes on challenges at every turn: gangbangers in Chicago housing projects, parents who call him racist, teachers who insist they can’t help poor kids, unions that refuse to modernize, Tea Partiers who call him an autocrat, affluent white progressive moms who hate yearly tests, and even the NRA, which once labeled Arne the “most extreme anti-gun member of President Obama’s Cabinet.” Going to a child’s funeral every couple of weeks, as he did when he worked in Chicago, will do that to a person. How Schools Work exposes the lies that have caused American kids to fall behind their international peers, from early childhood all the way to college graduation rates. But it also identifies what really does make a school work. “As insightful as it is inspiring” (Washington Book Review), How Schools Work will embolden parents, teachers, voters, and even students to demand more of our public schools. If America is going to be great, then we can accept nothing less.
Resources In Education
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1982
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Someone Has To Fail
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Author : David F. Labaree
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2011-03-01
Someone Has To Fail written by David F. Labaree and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-03-01 with Education categories.
What do we really want from schools? Only everything, in all its contradictions. Most of all, we want access and opportunity for all children—but all possible advantages for our own. So argues historian David Labaree in this provocative look at the way “this archetype of dysfunction works so well at what we want it to do even as it evades what we explicitly ask it to do.” Ever since the common school movement of the nineteenth century, mass schooling has been seen as an essential solution to great social problems. Yet as wave after wave of reform movements have shown, schools are extremely difficult to change. Labaree shows how the very organization of the locally controlled, administratively limited school system makes reform difficult. At the same time, he argues, the choices of educational consumers have always overwhelmed top-down efforts at school reform. Individual families seek to use schools for their own purposes—to pursue social opportunity, if they need it, and to preserve social advantage, if they have it. In principle, we want the best for all children. In practice, we want the best for our own. Provocative, unflinching, wry, Someone Has to Fail looks at the way that unintended consequences of consumer choices have created an extraordinarily resilient educational system, perpetually expanding, perpetually unequal, constantly being reformed, and never changing much.
Reign Of Error
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Author : Diane Ravitch
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2013-09-17
Reign Of Error written by Diane Ravitch and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-09-17 with Education categories.
From one of the foremost authorities on education in the United States, former U.S. assistant secretary of education, “whistle-blower extraordinaire” (The Wall Street Journal), author of the best-selling The Death and Life of the Great American School System (“Important and riveting”—Library Journal), The Language Police (“Impassioned . . . Fiercely argued . . . Every bit as alarming as it is illuminating”—The New York Times), and other notable books on education history and policy—an incisive, comprehensive look at today’s American school system that argues against those who claim it is broken and beyond repair; an impassioned but reasoned call to stop the privatization movement that is draining students and funding from our public schools. In Reign of Error, Diane Ravitch argues that the crisis in American education is not a crisis of academic achievement but a concerted effort to destroy public schools in this country. She makes clear that, contrary to the claims being made, public school test scores and graduation rates are the highest they’ve ever been, and dropout rates are at their lowest point. She argues that federal programs such as George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind and Barack Obama’s Race to the Top set unreasonable targets for American students, punish schools, and result in teachers being fired if their students underperform, unfairly branding those educators as failures. She warns that major foundations, individual billionaires, and Wall Street hedge fund managers are encouraging the privatization of public education, some for idealistic reasons, others for profit. Many who work with equity funds are eyeing public education as an emerging market for investors. Reign of Error begins where The Death and Life of the Great American School System left off, providing a deeper argument against privatization and for public education, and in a chapter-by-chapter breakdown, putting forth a plan for what can be done to preserve and improve it. She makes clear what is right about U.S. education, how policy makers are failing to address the root causes of educational failure, and how we can fix it. For Ravitch, public school education is about knowledge, about learning, about developing character, and about creating citizens for our society. It’s about helping to inspire independent thinkers, not just honing job skills or preparing people for college. Public school education is essential to our democracy, and its aim, since the founding of this country, has been to educate citizens who will help carry democracy into the future.
Non Coercive Classrooms
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Author : Rolf Ahrens
language : en
Publisher: FriesenPress
Release Date : 2024-09-18
Non Coercive Classrooms written by Rolf Ahrens and has been published by FriesenPress this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-09-18 with Education categories.
Non-Coercive Classrooms is aimed at the years from kindergarten to grade twelve. It contains descriptions of best practice if our goal for students is to leave school with skills that enhance their innate intelligence. The author argues that the benefits of teaching skills as opposed to conveying content, provide students not only with personal advantages such as enhanced self-esteem but also as a more useful preparation for life after grade twelve. In a section on teaching resources the author provides example activities on: - how an activity has the potential to enhance multiple intelligences - creating enhanced notebooks or records - concrete language assignments - a generative approach to building content based on topics, attributes ,and actions. Perhaps most important is the opportunity for students to learn what it means to be in a non-coercive relationship with other students and with other adults. And to learn the positive nature of non-coercive behavior especially as it effects their own attitude about school and about learning.
It Starts With People
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Author : Hank Resnik
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
It Starts With People written by Hank Resnik and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1978 with Drug abuse categories.
Failing At School
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Author : Camille A. Farrington
language : en
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Release Date : 2014
Failing At School written by Camille A. Farrington 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 2014 with Education categories.
Roughly half of all incoming ninth graders across urban districts will fail classes and drop out of school without a diploma. Failing at School starts with the premise that urban American high schools generate such widespread student failure not because of some fault of the students who attend them but because high schools were designed to stratify achievement and let only the top performers advance to higher levels of education. This design is particularly detrimental for low-income, racial/ethnic minority students. To get different results, Farrington proposes fundamental changes based on what we now know about how students learn, what motivates them to engage in learning, and what kinds of educational systems and structures would best support their learning. “This is a groundbreaking and eye-opening study because it does what few studies of high school truly do: get inside the hearts and minds of teen-agers and show what their experience of school looks and feels like to them. The analysis of students who fail is revealing and powerful. There are poignant and revealing stories of just how a few student mistakes or teacher insensitivities lead to unfortunate and long-lasting results. More importantly, these case studies, their nuances, and their implications take us beyond the clichés and simplistic theories about schools and reform. Most importantly, we read of tangible and intelligent solutions that can be instituted, based on the facts on the ground. I highly recommend this book to everyone interested in getting beyond the typical talking points of school reform.” —Grant Wiggins, Authentic Education “Camille Farrington details how high schools trap students along developmental trajectories distorted by structural factors—resources, values and practices—beyond their control. Grounded firmly in research, she describes a better way forward. This book is an important contribution to the re-visioning of American high schools.” —Ronald F. Ferguson, faculty director, Achievement Gap Initiative, Harvard University "Why is there such a pattern of failure in urban high schools? This is a vital issue for every city in America. Camille Farrington’s analysis of the roots of this problem and suggestions for structural changes to break this cycle is the best I have seen. This book combines research and practitioner wisdom with common sense and heart, and for those of us engaged in this work, presents concrete directions for positive change.” —Ron Berger, chief academic officer, Expeditionary Learning Book Features: Offers concrete strategies for redesigning high schools based on four dimensions of student achievement—structural, academic, developmental, and motivational. Highlights the voices of students to illustrate fundamental problems with the way we currently “do school.” Addresses the new Common Core State Standards and the potential of this major reform effort to move us toward equity and excellence. Camille A. Farrington is a research associate (assistant professor) at The University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and the Consortium on Chicago School Research and director of curriculum, instruction, and assessment for the Network for College Success.
Illiteracy In America
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Author : National Advisory Council on Adult Education (U.S.). Literacy Committee
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
Illiteracy In America written by National Advisory Council on Adult Education (U.S.). Literacy Committee and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Education categories.