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“james deneen”

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  • Urban Schools

    Crisis and Revolution

    by James Deneen, Carmen Catanese ...
    Urban Schools: Crisis and Revolution describes America's inner-city public schools and the failure of most to provide even a minimally adequate education for their students. With numerous examples, James Deneen and Carm Catanese argue that these failures are preventable. Early chapters document the two-tiered character of American public schools, the tragic consequences of failing schools for ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve

    Profiles of Programs Helping All Students to Learn

    by James Deneen ...
    Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries. Examining fundamental questions and educational issues, James Deneen identifies what all students should learn and discusses what American students currently learn.Deneen argues that failing schools can become successful by studying examples of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

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  • A Focus on Hope

    Fifty Resilient Students Speak

    by Frances K. Trotman, Erik E. Morales ...
    Over the course of ten years, this extensive qualitative study focused on the academic resilience phenomenon. The research delves into the educational resilience experiences of fifty low socioeconomic students of color from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds. In addition to chronicling specific protective factors and processes active in the students' lives, several symbiotic relationships ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Random Musings

    Reflections of a Black Intellectual

    by Bernard Grenway ...
    Random Musings: Reflections of a Black Intellectual focuses on the various racial and cultural challenges facing African-Americans in the context of present day educational, political, and historical realities. The text touches on a wide array of issues, including the psychology of race and power, the plight of the modern black intellectual, and the need to enhance the educational standing of ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Circulating Communities

    The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing

    Edited by Paula Mathieu, Steven J. Parks, Tiffany Rousculp ...
    Series series Cultural Studies/Pedagogy/Activism
    Circulating Communities: The Tactics and Strategies of Community Publishing, edited by Paula Mathieu, Steve Parks, and Tiffany Rousculp, represents the first attempt to gather the myriad of community and college publishing projects, providing not only history and analysis but extended samples of the community writing produced. Rather than feature only the voices of academic scholars, this ... Read more

    $104.49 USD

  • International Organizations and Higher Education Policy

    Thinking Globally, Acting Locally?

    Edited by Roberta Malee Bassett, Alma Maldonado-Maldonado ...
    Series series International Studies in Higher Education
    Higher Education operates in an increasingly global context, and yet the examination of what drives and moves the field has remained largely focused on domestic campus leaders, national governments and institutional actors. International Organizations and Higher Education Policy expands the analysis to include the global drivers behind higher education policy, including a full array of influential ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • From an Immigrant Association to a National Education Network

    by Tamar Horowitz, Shmuel Shamai, Zinaida Ilatov ...
    This book traces the journey of the Mofet Association, an educational coalition established by teachers who immigrated to Israel from the former Soviet Union. Initially focused on children from the former Soviet Union, the Mofet Association went on to become an extensive network of schools serving a wide range of students, including non-immigrant Israelis, Arabs, and Druze in is Israel’s center ... Read more

    $72.89 USD

  • Social Justice and Transformative Learning

    Culture and Identity in the United States and South Africa

    Edited by Saundra M. Tomlinson-Clarke, Darren L. Clarke ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Educational Equality and Diversity
    The similarities between the United States and South Africa with respect to race, power, oppression and economic inequities are striking, and a better understanding of these parallels can provide educational gains for students and educators in both countries. Through shared experiences and perspectives, this volume presents scholarly work from U.S. and South African scholars that advance ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Building a Bridge to Success

    From Program Improvement to Excellence

    by Deborah Turner, Bonita M. Drolet ...
    Principals want all students to bridge the achievement gap. Sometimes they just don't know how to make it happen. This book looks at what successful principals do to close the achievement gap and move their schools from one that needs improvement to one that is succeeding for all students.With current federal legislation, a principal who does not reach the proficiency mandates on the prescribed ... Read more

    $42.99 USD

  • From Risk to Resiliency

    A Resource for Strengthening Education's Stepchild

    by William H. Warring Jr. ...
    The failure of continuation schools to educate our most vulnerable adolescent populations is slowly removing them from our educational landscapes. Millions of struggling teens, lacking alternatives, are being set adrift without capacity or hope. Yet their failures frankly, are unnecessary.Research-based study offering school-wide direction and practice is strongly evidenced throughout educational ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Critical Voices in School Reform

    Students Living through Change

    Edited by Beth Rubin, Elena Silva ...
    School reform of one kind or another is a priority for education systems the world over. Yet the voices of students - those most affected by, and most pivotal to, the success or failure of any program of school reform - are rarely heard on this topic. This is the first book to look at school reform from the perspective of the students. The studies included in this collection focus on reform ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Winnebagos on Wednesdays

    How Visionary Leadership Can Transform Higher Education

    by Scott Cowen ...
    Series series The William G. Bowen Series
    Why a strong mission and inspired leadership are vital to the success of America’s colleges and universitiesIn 1998, soon after assuming the presidency of Tulane University, Scott Cowen was confronted with a setback. Despite an undefeated football season and putting the best financial deal on the table, Cowen was unable to retain the school's football coach. The coach wanted something the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD