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Sartre and No Child Left Behind provides a rich ethnographic account of students psychological and emotional experiences of impoverished school settings, a much-ignored dimension of urban schooling. Darian Parker engages with a new anthropological theory of human consciousness to explore these students experiences.

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Provides definitions and study tips for over sixteen hundred frequently used SAT words and includes strategies for memorizing the words and answering questions on the test.

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A discussion of many of the dilemmas and problems facing school administrators. Topics include: conflicting beliefs regarding the fundamental purpose of school, administering racial and ethnic differences, and monetary incentives to reform teacher compensation.

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Yet, when applied to student life, the literature tends to neglect a frequent phenomena of student life: that students are uprooted from their home countries and resettled in culturally different areas. Part III examines peer socialization among Iranians, Israeli adolescents living on Kibbutzim, and other ethnic and cultural groups.

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School leadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to new opportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result of government policy. This book considers the developing nature of school leadership and the impact of new roles for headteachers inside and outside school and system leadership.

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School leadership is undergoing significant change as headteachers respond to new opportunities and challenges offered to or imposed on them as a result of government policy. This book considers the developing nature of school leadership and the impact of new roles for headteachers inside and outside school and system leadership.

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The nuts and bolts of securing the funding for facility construction, a component of the building process usually overlooked in training administrators, are clearly outlined.

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The nuts and bolts of securing the funding for facility construction, a component of the building process usually overlooked in training administrators, are clearly outlined.

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In this important new volume, distinguished legal and public policy scholars address issues that are critical to the successful drafting and implementation of school choice programs, yet are usually overlooked in the choice debate.

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Are public charter schools more effective than traditional public schools This book provides quantitative evidence to answer this question and considers a better way to undertake a policy of school choice.

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Explores the dilemmas many parents face when choosing a school for their children, and the impact of the growing gap between public and private schools on families, schools and the community.

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School choice has risen to the top of the list of potential solutions to America's educational problems. This collection of essays redresses this situation by addressing the moral and normative side of school choice. It considers the relationship of school choice to equality, moral pluralism, institutional ecology, and constitutionality.

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In this book, the authors describe a comprehensive school reform approach that addresses the six areas needing reform and reduces resistance to school reform. Creating a "high-performing" school is an organizational approach to school reform that creates a distinctly different...

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In this book, the authors describe a comprehensive school reform approach that addresses the six areas needing reform and reduces resistance to school reform. Creating a "high-performing" school is an organizational approach to school reform that creates a distinctly different...

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Focusing on private schools, this book makes an important contribution to our understanding of schools as social settings, illustrating their potential to create alternative cultures.

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This book provides an eye-opening look at the outsized role that seven Presidents played in shaping the policies and practices relative to school desegregation through their bully pulpit.

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This book provides an eye-opening look at the outsized role that seven Presidents played in shaping the policies and practices relative to school desegregation through their bully pulpit.

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Leading scholars in the fields of history and law analyse the outcomes of school desegregation and conclude that the policies of the past - mandatory reassignment and strict racial quotas - had too few benefits and too many costs to make them viable alternatives for the future.