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This provocative work carefully argues that neither racial integration nor compensatory educational spending has achieved equal opportunity. It proposes an integration strategy that has a chance of garnering broad support and raising overall educational performance.

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Educators, neurologists, and psychologists explain how the high-stakes testing movement, and the race to wire classrooms, is actually stunting our children's intellects, blocking brain development and sometimes fueling mental illness.

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Simply put, as language education (including reading, writing, and oral language) becomes increasingly based upon anthropological, socio-psycholinguistic, and literary principles, the assessment of language and literacy must also be based upon such principles.

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An examination of the growth and development of alternative schools in American society and their role in the public school environment.

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This book documents the shocking state of public education in the United States, including the high rates of school violence, the decline in student achievement, and the politicization of the educational process.

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Today, with all of the controversies surrounding religion in the schools and in the public sphere, it would seem more important than ever that teachers and librarians have a quick source to up to date, correct, unbiased information to give to patrons and students and to inform their classroom practices.

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Overall, the museums detailed here represent a cross-section of the rapidly expanding science museum field, and they illustrate why science museums have become so popular and instrumental in furthering science literacy across the U.S.

The book's twelve sections focus on aquariums, marine museums, and marine-life parks;

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The current edition analyzes the sex culture of America and the ways this culture impacts schools.

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In America's Urban Crisis and the Advent of Color-blind Politics, Ivery and Bassett combine their own experience in the field of civil rights with contributions of urban studies experts to provide an overview of scholarship on the urban underclass. This look into the modern ra...

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Marxist thought pervades American academic discourse, particularly in the humanities and the social sciences.

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Explores how four disciplines in the social sciences and humanities - political science, economics, philosophy, and literary studies - have been transformed. This book places academic developments in their intellectual and socio-political contexts, revealing the internal dynamics of disciplinary change.

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This book focuses on the intersections between Catholic schools and public education reforms.

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This book focuses on the intersections between Catholic schools and public education reforms.

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A duo of university reference librarians compiled this handbook to answer questions such as `What are the school colors of the University of New Mexico' `What is the nickname of Syracuse University's athletic teams' `What are the words to the alma mater of Merrimack College' and `What is the title of Baylor University's yearbook' .

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Writing for the professional educator and the general reader, Rinehart and Lee view the American educational system from a provocative and new perspective.

The book reveals many of the current problems with public schools and explores different types of choice systems.

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Recognized as one of the outstanding academic books published in 1982, American Educators' Encyclopedia has now been revised to reflect a decade of change.

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This book describes the current state of universities on each continent, providing a comprehensive analysis of the numerous factors that have affected higher education systems around the world.

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Entries are grouped in chapters according to type of reference work, such as bibliographies, dictionaries and encyclopedias, and directories. While most of the works were published between 1970 and 1990, the volume includes works from 1861 to 1992.

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According to Professor Wallenfeldt, if higher education is to serve the needs of a broad range of people, a communication must be developed that relates special interests to essential realities.

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This book gives out a fun historical fact for each day of the year.