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By: Frederick Hess

ISBN: 9781475804690
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Sep 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this volume, a team of national experts address the major elements key to system redesign and long-lasting reform, describing in detail the steps needed at the community, school, district and state-level by which to achieve long-lasting reform.


(Paperback)

By: Nancy Brown Diggs

ISBN: 9781475806113
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2013
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Americas failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak pictureand it isthis is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.


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By: David W. Hornbeck

ISBN: 9781607091554
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2009
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book explains the origins of the low expectations we have of children, including, notably, children of color, those for whom English is a second language, poor children and children with disabilities. The book dispels the basis for low expectations and makes clear the eco...


(Paperback)

By: Mitch Pearlstein

ISBN: 9781607093626
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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From Family Collapse to America's Decline looks at the effect of family fragmentation on education, and in turn the American economy.


(Paperback)

By: Kalman R. Hettleman

ISBN: 9781607095491
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book presents a bold, unconventional plan to rescue our nation's schoolchildren from a failing public education system. The plan reflects the author's rare fusion of on-the-ground experience as school board member, public administrator and political activist and exhaustive policy research.


(Hardback)

By: Michael Q. McShane

ISBN: 9781475814378
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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If school choice policy is to improve the American education landscape, careful thought must be put in to understand how it can expand existing high quality schools and create new high quality schools to serve more children. New and Better Schools attacks this problem from th...


(Paperback)

By: Michael Q. McShane

ISBN: 9781475814385
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Dec 2014
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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If school choice policy is to improve the American education landscape, careful thought must be put in to understand how it can expand existing high quality schools and create new high quality schools to serve more children. New and Better Schools attacks this problem from th...


(Paperback)

By: Michael R. Sandler

ISBN: 9781607093565
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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The purpose of this book is to share with the reader a unique experience of a seasoned career entrepreneur with the commitment to improve education and benefited by working with three highly regarded business and education leaders as mentors set out to define and build an education industry.


(Paperback)

By: Henry Gradillas

ISBN: 9781607099437
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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In this book, Dr. Gradillas shares both his upbeat philosophy of education and the practical school management techniques that helped translate that philosophy into success for thousands of students over three decades. The book focuses on three areas that are key to the operat...


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By: Julian R. Betts

ISBN: 9781607093596
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: May 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book breaks new ground on how policymakers and journalists can fairly assess charter school performance. The editors and authors show how good approaches to charter school assessment would also work for regular public schools, which is important because of the requirements of No Child Left Behind.


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By: David J. Feith

ISBN: 9781607098416
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2011
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book taps the best American thinkers to answer the essential American question: How do we sustain our experiment in government of, by, and for the people Authored by an extraordinary and politically diverse roster of public officials, scholars, and educators, these chapt...


(Hardback)

By: Susan Tave Zelman

ISBN: 9781607096405
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Nov 2022
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Traces the history of American education as a foundation to examining persistent weaknesses in education today.


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By: Andy Smarick

ISBN: 9781607094777
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2012
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Gary J. Schmitt

ISBN: 9781475815382
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment.


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By: Gary J. Schmitt

ISBN: 9781475815375
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Mar 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment.


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By: Anne D. Neal

ISBN: 9781475808827
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Faced with evidence of declining standards and spiraling costs, families often feel lost when it comes to the college selection process. In twelve concise chapters, this book outlines questions families have on academic substance, affordability, and campus life to determine whether colleges and universities are doing a good job for their students.


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By: Anne D. Neal

ISBN: 9781475808810
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2017
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Faced with evidence of declining standards and spiraling costs, families often feel lost when it comes to the college selection process. In twelve concise chapters, this book outlines questions families have on academic substance, affordability, and campus life to determine whether colleges and universities are doing a good job for their students.


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By: James H. Lytle

ISBN: 9781607090564
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Feb 2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Much of the current discourse on improving school leadership, and particularly the performance of principals, is misguided. There is much too much emphasis on evaluation and standards as determined by policy makers and professors and not nearly enough attention to how one provides performance-driven leadership in the context of day-to-day practice.