An Unfinished Journey Education The American Dream

Author : Jeanne Allen
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 1796076074
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Unfinished Journey: Education & the American Dream written by Jeanne Allen and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2020-01-23 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by love of country, her Italian heritage, and this nation’s ongoing quest to raise its children to aspire and achieve their greatest dreams, Jeanne Allen wrote An Unfinished Journey, which uniquely challenges us to think big about the education of our youth. The author—a well-known pioneer and veteran of education policy, politics, and culture—provides a compendium of powerful yet brief essays that will have parents, policy makers, and the general public both laughing and crying at the way the nation’s education institutions have developed or mishandled all that it takes to help children achieve their greatest potential. From musings on Columbus Day to how kids behave in school and from the role of parents to politicians, this book is a uniquely informative and instructive firsthand account of the people, policies, and players that have shaped American education and why it matters. Combining a fascinating personal story with political acumen from more than thirty years in the arena, Allen paves the road to finishing the journey to the American dream.

Author : Elliot Regenstein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1475865902
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education Restated written by Elliot Regenstein and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-07-26 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Education Restated: Getting Policy Right on Accountability, Teacher Pay, and School Choice offers the education policy community a roadmap for change in three hot-button policy areas. In each of these areas policy has been anchored around the wrong core values. By putting the right core values at the heart of policy, state governments can create more favorable conditions for education improvement at the local level. Education Restated takes a pragmatic approach to policy change, recognizing that the forces that created today’s policies have not gone away—and that on complex issues there are legitimate competing interests. This book harmonizes the best ideas of opposing policy camps and identifies opportunities to strengthen connections between K-12 and early childhood. For advocates seeking common ground with historical adversaries, Education Restated provides some ideas on where they might find it.

Author : Archie Morris III D.P.A.
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728304210
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Up from Slavery; an Unfinished Journey written by Archie Morris III D.P.A. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2019-03-21 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a period of eighty-five years, the M Street / Dunbar High School was an academically elite, all-black public high school in Washington DC. As far back as 1899, its students came in first in citywide tests given in both black and white schools. Over this eighty-five-year span, approximately 80 percent of M Street / Dunbar’s graduates went on to college even though most Americans, white or black, did not attend college at all. Faculty and students were mutually respectful to one another, and disruptions in the classroom were not tolerated. Yet in this era of best practices, this public high school has received virtually no attention in the literature or in policy considerations for inner-city education. The Dunbar High School today, with its new building and athletic facilities, is just another ghetto school with abysmal standards and low test score results despite the District of Columbia’s record of having some of the country’s highest levels of money spent per pupil. The purpose of this study is to explore the history of a high school that was successful in teaching black children from low-income families and to determine if the learning model employed there could be successful in a modern inner-city public education environment.

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Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfinished Journey written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Henry Chafe
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 9780195150490
Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Unfinished Journey written by William Henry Chafe and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular classic text chronicles America's roller-coaster journey through the decades since World War II. Considering both the paradoxes and the possibilities of post-war America, Chafe portrays the significant cultural and political themes that have colored our country's past and present, including issues of race, class, gender, foreign policy, and economic and social reform. He examines such subjects as the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights movement, the origins and the end of the Cold War, the culture of the 1970s, the Reagan years, the Clinton presidency, and the events of September 11th and their aftermath. In this edition, Chafe provides an insightful assessment of Clinton's legacy as president, particularly in light of his impeachment, and an entirely new chapter that examines the impact of two of America's most pivotal events of the twenty-first century: the 2000 presidential election turmoil and the September 11th terrorist attacks. Chafe puts forth an excellent account of George W. Bush's first year as president and also covers his subsequent role as a world leader following his administration's declared war on terrorism. The completely revised epilogue and updated bibliographic essay offer a compelling and controversial final commentary on America's past and its future. Brilliantly written by a prize-winning historian, the fifth edition of The Unfinished Journey is an essential text for all students of recent American history.

Author : Susan Ariel Aaronson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813184355
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trade and the American Dream written by Susan Ariel Aaronson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-10-21 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Every hour of every day Americans see, smell, taste, or hear goods and services traded between the United States and other nations. Trade issues are front-page news but most Americans know little about the potential impact of global economic interdependence on their jobs, standard of living, and quality of life. In Trade and the American Dream, Susan Aaronson highlights a previously ignored dimension of the United States trade policy: public understanding. Focusing on the debate over the three mechanisms designed to govern world trade—the International Trade Organization (ITO), the General Agreement on Tarriffs and Trade (GATT), and the World Trade Organization (WTO)—she examines how policymakers communicate and how the public comprehends trade policy. Since 1947 the U.S. has led global efforts to free trade, and support for freer trade policies and for an international organization to govern world trade has become dogma among policymakers, business leaders, and economists. Relaying on archival research, polling data, public documents, interviews, and Congressional testimony, Aaronson shows that the public also matters in trade policy decisions. If concerns about the implications of economic interdependence remain unaddressed, American trade policy and an international trade organization are vulnerable to a surge of populism and isolationism. While Americans became addicted to imported cars, radios, computers, and appliances, a growing number saw the costs of freer trade policies in the nation's slums, poverty statistics, crime rate, and unemployment figures. Concerns about freer trade policies reached a crescendo in the mid-1990s, especially as Congress debated U.S. participation in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Aaronson suggests ways to create greater public understanding for the GATT/WTO and international trade. If national trade policy is to play in Peoria, Americans must first understand it.

Author : Timothy Minchin
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129885
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After the Dream written by Timothy Minchin and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Luther King’s 1965 address from Montgomery, Alabama, the center of much racial conflict at the time and the location of the well-publicized bus boycott a decade earlier, is often considered by historians to be the culmination of the civil rights era in American history. In his momentous speech, King declared that segregation was “on its deathbed” and that the movement had already achieved significant milestones. Although the civil rights movement had won many battles in the struggle for racial equality by the mid-1960s, including legislation to guarantee black voting rights and to desegregate public accommodations, the fight to implement the new laws was just starting. In reality, King’s speech in Montgomery represented a new beginning rather than a conclusion to the movement, a fact that King acknowledged in the address. After the Dream: Black and White Southerners since 1965 begins where many histories of the civil rights movement end, with King’s triumphant march from the iconic battleground of Selma to Montgomery. Timothy J. Minchin and John Salmond focus on events in the South following the passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. After the Dream examines the social, economic, and political implications of these laws in the decades following their passage, discussing the empowerment of black southerners, white resistance, accommodation and acceptance, and the nation’s political will. The book also provides a fascinating history of the often-overlooked period of race relations during the presidential administrations of Ford, Carter, Reagan, and both George H. W. and George W. Bush. Ending with the election of President Barack Obama, this study will influence contemporary historiography on the civil rights movement.

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Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Author : Joanne Team
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781519119537
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Dream 2. 0 written by Joanne Team and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the American Dream a goal you can own or merely borrow? In our current state of wealth distribution, loans, racial and socio-economic inequities, and growing debt, people's chances of achieving the mainstream American Dream seem almost unrealistic for the many and only reserved for the fortunate few. Our class decided to study the American Dream through real experiences rather than society's definition of the big house, fancy cars, and white picket fence. It was in these interviews that we discovered the true definitions of the Real American Dream. Our interviewees got the chance to look back on their journey so far and their reflections were far from the societal's pressure of property and materialistic gains. Love, Living Simply, Family, Education, and Opportunity were just some of the reoccurring definitions that were collected from these true accounts of the American Dream journey. We are encouraging a push towards the redefinition of the American Dream. We hope that this book encourages our readers to rethink what their American Dream is and to encourage our nation to revisit and even redefine it.

Author : Valerie Ooka Pang
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791438398
Total Pages : 382 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Struggling To Be Heard written by Valerie Ooka Pang and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1998-01-01 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The social, psychological, and educational needs of Asian Pacific American youth often go unmet. This book, written by multicultural educators, social workers, psychologists, and others, challenges stereotypical beliefs and seeks to provide, basic knowledge and direction for working with this population, often labeled as "the model minority."