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  • Catholic School Renaissance: A Wise Giver’s Guide to Strengthening a National Asset

    by Andy Smarick, Kelly Robson ...
    Over the last generation, Catholic schools have been buffeted by a confluence of winds: changing demographics in the urban neighborhoods where many of their facilities are located, the disappearance of nuns and priests from classrooms, new competition from tuition-free charter schools. Finances crumbled, enrollments fell, and 6,000 schools were closed.Yet two million children remain in Catholic ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Closing America's High-achievement Gap: A Wise Giver's Guide to Helping Our Most Talented Students Reach Their Full Potential

    by Andy Smarick ...
    This intriguing book makes a powerful case for a sorely needed U.S. educational improvement that has been almost entirely overlooked. During the last two decades, philanthropists and education reformers have made urgent efforts to pull weak students up to levels of basic competency. Though that vital work is incomplete, there is evidence of progress among low achievers. Meanwhile, though, children ... Read more

    $0.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • No Longer Forgotten

    The Triumphs and Struggles of Rural Education in America

    Edited by Michael Q. McShane, Andy Smarick ...
    The lion’s share of writing about education improvement for the past two decades has focused on improving urban schools. Given the yawning gaps between the low-income and minority students that populate those schools and their suburban counterparts, this makes a great deal of sense. Unfortunately, this focus has neglected the tens of millions of students who attend schools in rural areas. Many of ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • The Urban School System of the Future

    Applying the Principles and Lessons of Chartering

    by Andy Smarick ...
    Series series New Frontiers in Education
    For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system—the district—has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetime of success. Millions and millions of boys and girls have suffered the grievous consequences. The district is irreparably broken. For the sake of today’s and tomorrow’s inner-city kids, it must be replaced. The Urban School System of the Future argues ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • A Cup of Comfort for Teachers

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    by Colleen Sell ...
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  • Character Strengths and Virtues : A Handbook and Classification

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    by Christopher Peterson;Martin E. P. Seligman ...
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  • Graves' Disease: A Practical Guide

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    by Elaine A. Moore with Lisa Moore ...
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