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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 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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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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This book introduces a new field of study that draws from the disciplines of education (critical pedagogy, critical race theory, whiteness studies) and Africana Studies. It highlights how the teachings of Elijah Muhammad are interdisciplinary and could transform education in the 21st century.

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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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Today American schools are typically large, consolidated, bureaucratic organizations controlled by state and/or municipal governments. This book examines the remarkable transformation in the form and function of education and assesses the problems and possibilities for the future of schools and our nation.

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This book is both a call to action for more principled academic leadership and a practical guide that administrators can use to develop a leadership style grounded in their core principles.

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This book is both a call to action for more principled academic leadership and a practical guide that administrators can use to develop a leadership style grounded in their core principles.

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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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These same conditions have impacted district and school leadership. This pragmatic book offers a road map to identify, design, and strengthen skills for district and school leadership. It is very readable, eminently sensible, and provides sound philosophical advice to support and sustain growth in leadership teams in any school or district.

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These same conditions have impacted district and school leadership. This pragmatic book offers a road map to identify, design, and strengthen skills for district and school leadership. It is very readable, eminently sensible, and provides sound philosophical advice to support and sustain growth in leadership teams in any school or district.

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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.