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  • Kids First

    Five Big Ideas for Transforming Children's Lives and America's Future

    de David Kirp ...
    While parents work longer hours for less and the costs of childcare, healthcare, and college skyrocket, the share of the U.S. budget spent on kids has fallen 22 percent since 1960. In Kids First, policy expert David Kirp issues a visionary call for renewing, revamping, and reenergizing public support for children, and offers inspiring, on-the-ground accounts of five big cradle-to-college ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The College Dropout Scandal

    de David Kirp ...
    Higher education today faces a host of challenges, from quality to cost. But too little attention gets paid to a startling fact: four out of ten students -- that's more than ten percent of the entire population - -who start college drop out. The situation is particularly dire for black and Latino students, those from poor families, and those who are first in their families to attend college. In ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

  • Disrupting Disruption

    The Steady Work of Transforming Schools

    de David Kirp, Marjorie Wechsler, Madelyn Gardner, Titilayo Tinubu Ali ...
    Disrupting Disruption shows how three racially and ethnically diverse school districts--Union NJ, Union City OK, and Roanoke City VA--have defied the demographic odds, boosting overall graduation rates while shrinking or eliminating the opportunity gap. These districts resemble many others in their student population. What makes them distinctive is their relentless focus on developing and ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • The Education Debate

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    de David Kirp, Kevin Macpherson ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To KnowRG
    A compelling overview of the major debates in contemporary education policy. In statehouses, school boards, and communities across the US, battles are raging over the direction of education policy--from the standards that are shaping what students learn to how test results are being used to judge a teacher's performance. These battles are being waged against a backdrop of shifting demographics, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Audiolibro

    The Education Debate

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    de David Kirp, Kevin Macpherson ...
    Narrado por Steve Menasche ...

    Completo

    6 hora 8 minutos

    In statehouses, school boards, and communities across the US, battles are raging over the direction of education policy—from the standards that are shaping what students learn to how test results are being used to judge a teacher's performance. What's more, the COVID-19 pandemic is prompting educators to rethink the school's mission in society.In The Education Debate, nationally recognized ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook

  • Higher Education and Equality of Opportunity

    Cross-National Perspectives

    de Ayelet Harel-Shalev, John Hawkins, Ka Ho Mok, Rick Wolff, Miri Amit, Pamela Blackmon, Josiah A. M. Cobbah, Steven J. Diner, Judith Naomi Friedlander, Gaele Goastellec, John Hattie, Sue Jackson, Ki-Seok Kim, David Kirp, Noga O'Connor, Hwanbo Park, Adel Pasztor, Carol Schmid, Boaz Shulruf, Don Stewart, Charles Tien, Sarah Tumen, Adrian Ziderman ...
    Series series Studies in Public Policy
    The movement to broaden access to public universities, the dominant strategy during the 1970s and 1980s, has largely shifted to enable the marketplace, rather than the government, to shape the contours of higher education. Government funding is being reduced, affirmative action and other programs designed to insure broader access are in decline and personal fulfillment is replacing a public good ... Leer más

    $129.99 USD

  • Improbable Scholars

    The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools

    de David L. Kirp ...
    No school district can be all charismatic leaders and super-teachers. It can't start from scratch, and it can't fire all its teachers and principals when students do poorly. Great charter schools can only serve a tiny minority of students. Whether we like it or not, most of our youngsters will continue to be educated in mainstream public schools. The good news, as David L. Kirp reveals in ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Improbable Scholars

    The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools

    de David L. Kirp ...
    No school district can be all charismatic leaders and super-teachers. It can't start from scratch, and it can't fire all its teachers and principals when students do poorly. Great charter schools can only serve a tiny minority of students. Whether we like it or not, most of our youngsters will continue to be educated in mainstream public schools. The good news, as David L. Kirp reveals in ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • The Sandbox Investment

    The Preschool Movement and Kids-First Politics

    de David L. Kirp ...
    Listen to a short interview with David L. Kirp Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane The rich have always valued early education, and for the past forty years, millions of poor kids have had Head Start. Now, more and more middle class parents have realized that a good preschool is the smartest investment they can make in their children's future in a competitive world. As The Sandbox ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

  • Metropolitanization and Public Services

    de Charles M. Haar, John G. Wofford, David L. Kirp, David K. Cohen, Leonard J. Duhl, Allen V. Haefele ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Metropolitanization and Public Services is third in a series on the governance of metropolitan regions which aims to explore the welfare and development of Metropolitan America. Originally published in 1972, this study discusses who decides which essential public services need to be provided within a metropolitan area by looking at political reform as well as presenting ideas on functional ... Leer más

    $51.99 USD

  • Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line

    The Marketing of Higher Education

    de David L. Kirp, Elizabeth Popp Berman, Jeffrey T. Holman, Patrick Roberts, Debra Solomon, Jonathan VanAntwerpen ...
    How can you turn an English department into a revenue center? How do you grade students if they are "customers" you must please? How do you keep industry from dictating a university's research agenda? What happens when the life of the mind meets the bottom line? Wry and insightful, Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line takes us on a cross-country tour of the most powerful trend in academic ... Leer más

    $30.99 USD

  • On the Road to High-Quality Early Learning

    Changing Children's Lives

    de Marjorie E. Wechsler, David L. Kirp ...
    This timely book will help policymakers and practitioners convert their visions of high-quality early education into on-the-ground reality by providing a much-needed, richly detailed look at how states can design, fund, and manage exemplary programs. The authors describe and analyze how four states—Michigan, West Virginia, Washington, and North Carolina—have built early education systems that ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD