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Although schools with an African-centered educational focus have existed for over 200 years, they have most often been independent institutions. This exploration has proceeded in a number of ways: in Baltimore, MD, African-centered education was instituted in selected classrooms within an otherwise traditional school.

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The United States Supreme Court's 1954 landmark decision, Brown v Board of Education, set into motion a process of desegregation that would transform American public schools. This book provides an assessment of how Brown's most visible effect, contact between students of different racial groups, has changed over the fifty years since the decision.

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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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An ambitious book about race and education in 21st century America, showing the connections between schools, institutional racism, and the media, and what young people of color and the rest of us can do to carve out space for another kind of public education.

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Get the answers you need from Mr. Technology! Technology columnist Joe Huber explains answers to Windows and Office questions in plain, non-technical English that all school library media specialists will find useful.

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This book is a basic treatment of faculty performance appraisal in higher education. Neophyte administrators, committee members, and those facing evaluation are often perplexed by the range and depth of the questions concerning what constitutes an effective and reasonable performance appraisal system.

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Barry the Bear and Billy the Bee teaches children the hope of find their light within themselves. As these two take a journey to find a superficial light that is outside of themselves, they quickly learn that their real light was in them the whole time. Our hope is that our children grow up to know their worth from the very start and with that they can navigate life with confidence and truth.

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Tackles a long-standing and fraught debate over racial inequalities in America's schools. This title exposes raw, real-time arguments over what inequalities of opportunity based on race in our schools look like today - and what, if anything, various Americans should do about it.

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An examination of the processes and procedures involved in developing a career in teaching and becoming a secondary headteacher in England. In a study of two local education authorities, the author compares how career structures match up to actual experiences of promotion.

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The author outlines an entirely different conception of what the university must become if it is to be a force for good in the world.

The author contends that the modern university actively participates in the breakdown of human communities and the destruction of the natural world.

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Focuses on the purposes of bilingual education programs in schools and their historical development from the 1960s to the present.

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This important book provides African American parents with the knowledge to diversify K-12 school choices beyond traditional neighborhood public schools in order to optimize the educational chances of their own children, and it will help educators and policymakers to close the black-white academic achievement gap throughout America.

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Edwards and Willie demonstrate the efficacy of local community action, but also show how linkage with state, regional, and national agencies helps groups in their efforts to shape educational policy and practice.

Edwards and Willie examine the notion of critical mass and its relationship to community decision making.

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The author, who has spearheaded the adoption of block scheduling in her school's library media center, has prepared a complete guide for library media specialists contemplating or moving to block scheduling. She has incorporated the experiences of thirteen secondary school libraries across the country.

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This work is a report on the positive impact of parental involvement on their child's academics and on the school at large.