Making Schools Work For Underachieving Minority Students

Author : Josie G. Bain
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0313019770
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Schools Work for Underachieving Minority Students written by Josie G. Bain and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 1990-06-27 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labeled A Nation at Risk, Americans are urgently seeking reform in their public school systems. While many promising programs are being developed, they have not yet been validated. The national conference Making Schools Work for Underachieving Minority Students shared the best of what is presently known and deliberated on the implications for research, policy, and practice. Sponsored by CRESST (Center for Research on Evaluation Standards and Student Testing), The National Urban League, and the National Council of LaRaza, the conference was financed by the U.S. Department of Education. Closely following the structure of the conference, this volume's contributors examine education's current status. They then investigate potentially promising approaches to specific problem areas. Contributors treat issues of evaluation and testing, and conclude by addressing the potential of collaborative efforts. Responding to a major challenge, community groups and organizations throughout the country are seeking answers to the problem of underachieving minority students. This volume builds on these shared interests and is a first step toward an intervention process. Topics covered include: creating effective instructional programs; reducing the dropout rate; preparing students for secondary and postsecondary success; helping limited English proficient students; and improving teacher quality. The volume's contributors hope to promote dialogue on promising practices, foster collaboration, identify critical R & D needs and collaborative arrangements, and identify testing and evaluation issues for subsequent inquiry.

Author : William G. Ouchi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Schools Work written by William G. Ouchi and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This program has produced significant, lasting improvements in the school districts where it has already been implemented. Drawing on the results of a landmark study of 223 schools in six cities, a project that Ouchi supervised and that was funded in part by the National Science Foundation, Making Schools Work shows that a school's educational performance may be most directly affected by how the school is managed."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135709734
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The New Immigrants and American Schools written by Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2022-01-26 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This six-volume set focuses on Latin American, Caribbean, and Asian immigration, which accounts for nearly 80 percent of all new immigration to the United States. The volumes contain the essential scholarship of the last decade and present key contributions reflecting the major theoretical, empirical, and policy debates about the new immigration. The material addresses vital issues of race, gender, and socioeconomic status as they intersect with the contemporary immigration experience. Organized by theme, each volume stands as an independent contribution to immigration studies, with seminal journal articles and book chapters from hard-to-find sources, comprising the most important literature on the subject. The individual volumes include a brief preface presenting the major themes that emerge in the materials, and a bibliography of further recommended readings. In its coverage of the most influential scholarship on the social, economic, educational, and civil rights issues revolving around new immigration, this collection provides an invaluable resource for students and researchers in a wide range of fields, including contemporary American history, public policy, education, sociology, political science, demographics, immigration law, ESL, linguistics, and more.

Author : Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195188055
Total Pages : 859 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of African American Citizenship, 1865-Present written by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-24 with total page 859 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of essays tracing the historical evolution of African American experiences, from the dawn of Reconstruction onward, through the perspectives of sociology, political science, law, economics, education and psychology. As a whole, the book is a systematic study of the gap between promise and performance of African Americans since 1865. Over the course of thirty-four chapters, contributors present a portrait of the particular hurdles faced by African Americans and the distinctive contributions African Americans have made to the development of U.S. institutions and culture. --From publisher description.

Author : Reg Hinely
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135706883
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Education in Edge City written by Reg Hinely and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2000 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is an extended case study of a hypothetical school district--its residential communities, a middle school and secondary school, its students, teachers, administrators, parents and board members. An integrated series of cases, all dealing with characters and situations within the school district, it offers a realistic picture of what teaching is really about. Case activities increase readers' awareness of the professional aspects of teaching, and provide opportunities for teacher reflection and decision making and for dealing with the consequences of teacher actions. Chapters 2-15 include "Questions for Reflection and Discussion," "Class and Individual Projects," and "Questions Based on Activities." Most chapters conclude with "Additional Teaching and Learning Skills" and "Suggestions For Further Reading."

Author : Diana Mendley Rauner
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231506171
Total Pages : 197 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall written by Diana Mendley Rauner and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2000-09-26 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a call to action to parents, youth workers, policymakers—anyone who works for and worries about the next generation—to recognize and promote the values of caring in public and private life. It is about teenagers—those who no longer need the care given to babies and children but who still need support and guidance. Diana Mendley Rauner offers a rare focus on youth development as a process of experiencing care and learning social responsibility. Much public discussion of youth focuses on individual achievement and a limited set of markers of success, on the one hand, and increasingly punitive responses to failure on the other. Missing from these discussions is an appreciation for the importance of caring and social responsibility both in the environments we create for young people and in our expectations of how they should act and what they should become. "They Still Pick Me Up When I Fall" develops ideals for caring interaction, articulating specific behaviors and habits for practitioners as well as policies and practices that characterize caring organizations and caring societies. Each chapter begins with a profile of a youth-serving organization, drawn from the fields of education, youth work, and counseling. Throughout, an intellectual framework for care is interwoven with the voices and experiences of the youth workers and young people involved in the struggle to create a caring society.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1316 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1991-11 with total page 1316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 856 pages
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Download or read book Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David C. Paris
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429710909
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ideology And Educational Reform written by David C. Paris and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-03-13 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ideology and Educational Reform traces the underlying ideological problems that make genuine educational reform difficult. It describes three major themes in public education: common school, human capital, and clientelism.

Author : Prem Lata Sharma
Publisher : Sarup & Sons
ISBN 13 : 9788176254854
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book World Educational Reforms written by Prem Lata Sharma and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: