Saving the School

Saving the School
Title Saving the School PDF eBook
Author Michael Brick
Publisher Penguin
Pages 218
Release 2012-08-16
Genre Education
ISBN 1101575352

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Inside the race to save a great American high school, where making the numbers is only the beginning Being principal was never her dream. Anabel Garza, the young widow of a young cop, got by teaching English to immigrant children, taking college classes at night and raising her son. And Reagan High was no dream assignment. Once famous for its state football championships, educational achievements and award-winning design, the school was a shadow of its former self. “Identified for improvement,” said the federal government. “Academically unacceptable,” said the state. Promising students were fleeing. Test scores were plunging. The education commissioner set a deadline of one year, threatening to close the school for good. But when Anabel took the job - cruising the mall for dropouts, tailoring lessons to the tests, firing a few lazy teachers and supporting the rest – she started something no one expected. As the numbers rose, she set out to re-create the high school she remembered, with plays and dances, yearbooks and clubs, crowded bleachers and teachers who brought books alive. And soon she was not alone. There was Derrick Davis, a star player on the basketball team in the early 1990s, coaching the Raiders toward a chance at the playoffs. There was Candice Kaiser, a science teacher who had left hard partying behind for Christ, drilling her students on chemistry while she drove them to games, tutoring sessions, Bible studies and sometimes even doctors’ appointments. There were JaQuarius Daniels, Ashley Brown and 900 other kids trying to pass the exams, escape the streets and restore the pride of a neighborhood, all while still growing up. Across the country, public schools face the threat of extinction in the numerically ordained churn of the accountability movement. Now, for the first time, we can tally the human cost of rankings and scores. In this powerful rejoinder to the prevailing winds of American education policy, Michael Brick takes us inside the high-pressure world of a school on the brink. Compelling, character-driven narrative journalism, Saving the School pays overdue tribute to the great American high school, and to the people inside.

Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies

Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies
Title Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies PDF eBook
Author Andrew P. Johnson
Publisher SAGE
Pages 401
Release 2009-10-15
Genre Education
ISBN 1412968569

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Making Connections in Elementary and Middle School Social Studies, Second Edition is the best text for teaching primary school teachers how to integrate social studies into other content areas. This book is a comprehensive, reader-friendly text that demonstrates how personal connections can be incorporated into social studies education while meeting the National Council for the Social Studiese(tm) thematic, pedagogical, and disciplinary standards. Praised for its eoewealth of strategies that go beyond social studies teaching,e including classroom strategies, pedagogical techniques, activities and lesson plan ideas, this book examines a variety of methods both novice and experienced teachers alike can use to integrate social studies into other content areas.

Bibliography of Research Studies in Education

Bibliography of Research Studies in Education
Title Bibliography of Research Studies in Education PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 862
Release 1940
Genre Dissertations, Academic
ISBN

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Bibliography of Research Studies in Education

Bibliography of Research Studies in Education
Title Bibliography of Research Studies in Education PDF eBook
Author United States. Office of Education. Library Division
Publisher
Pages 434
Release 1938
Genre Dissertations, Academic
ISBN

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A Selected and Annotated Bibliography on Professional Literature in Education

A Selected and Annotated Bibliography on Professional Literature in Education
Title A Selected and Annotated Bibliography on Professional Literature in Education PDF eBook
Author California High School Teachers' Association. Committee of Fifteen
Publisher
Pages 122
Release 1924
Genre Education
ISBN

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Saving Schools

Saving Schools
Title Saving Schools PDF eBook
Author Paul E. Peterson
Publisher Harvard University Press
Pages 338
Release 2010-03-30
Genre Biography & Autobiography
ISBN 9780674050112

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In this book Peterson interprets the history of American schools by placing major educational reformers in the context of their times and relates their thinking to our own era by scrutinizing the often unanticipated consequences of their commitments and ideas. These extraordinary individuals provided the critical ideas and articulated the ideals that motivated many others to search for ways to save the schools from the limitations in which they were embedded: Horace Mann, John Dewey, Martin Luther King, Al Shanker, William Bennett, and James S. Coleman. The drive to centralize was pervasive despite repeatedly expressed reform desire to customize education. Peterson argues that education has become an increasingly labor intensive industry that must reverse direction and become more capital intensive or it will descend in quality. Fortunately, technological change is making it possible radically alter the way in which education services are delivered, providing a new chance to save our schools.

N E A Research Bulletin

N E A Research Bulletin
Title N E A Research Bulletin PDF eBook
Author
Publisher
Pages 490
Release 1925
Genre Education
ISBN

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