Books of Community and school
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Growing Up American: Schooling and the Survival of Community
By Alan PeshkinGrowing Up American: Schooling and the Survival of Community
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Using Multiple Measures of Teaching Quality to Improve the Preparation of Urban Teachers
By QuartzTeaching is a complex construct, and there is near-universal consensus, in the literature in the United States and internationally, that capturing this complexity requires collecting multiple measures from multiple sources.
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Service Learning Handbook
By Diana Whitton, Catherine WalbankThe Service Learning Handbook seeks to provide students with a teaching and learning approach that integrates community service with academic study to enrich learning, teach civic responsibility and strengthen communities.
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CommunityMatters: Working with Diversity for Wellbeing
By Barbara Vaughan, Karen Jennings, Jeremy HurleyCommunityMatters provides the cultural and social context for MindMatters. It shifts the focus from the notion of "mental health" to a holistic approach to school and emotional wellbeing linked to identity, culture and community.
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Schooling and Education in Africa: The Case of Ghana
By George Jerry Sefa DeiFafunwa ( 1982 ) , Jegede ( 1994 ) , Betts and Tabachnick ( 1998 ) , Bledsoe ( 1992 ) , Johnson ( 1995 ) , Kinyanjui ( 1990 ) , AALAE ( 1990 ) , Banya ( 1991 , 1993 ) , Tedla ( 1995 ) , Folson ( 1995 ) ...
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Glencoe Science: Life Science
Educational Measurement : Issues and Practice , 11 , 1 : 36-44 . 4. Barnes , Lehman W. and Marianne B. Barnes ( 1991 ) . “ Assessment , Practically Speaking . How Can We Measure Hands - on Science Skills ?
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Case Studies in Environmental Education: Policy and Practice
By Karen Malone, Ian Robottom, Rob WalkerThis series of case studies is the result of a major three year national research study and captures the experiences of educators in settings around Australia as they implement a diverse range of environmental education programs.
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School and Society in London, Canada, 1826-1871 [microform]: the Evolution of a System of Public Education
By Michael F. MurphyArchival files, annual reports, board and city council minutes, newspapers, personal papers, censuses, city directories, church records, and school syllabi were used to measure qualitatively and quantitatively the school attendance ...
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Inter-school Collaboration: A Literature Review
By National Foundation for Educational Research in England and Wales, Mary AtkinsonOverall, the review highlighted a lack of solid empirical evidence relating to inter-school collaboration.
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Taking Stock: The Inventory of Family, Community and School Support for Student Achievement
By Anne T. Henderson, Nancy Berla, Jocelyn GarlingtonTaking Stock is designed to help us build a closer partnership between the school, our families, and the community.
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Youth Development and Physical Activity: Linking Universities and Communities
By Donald R. HellisonTurnbull , W. ( 1995 , November 17-19 ) . Integrity . Grand Forks ( ND ) Herald , USA Weekend ... Alexandria , VA : Association for Supervision and Curriculum Development Wright , P. ( 1998 ) . The impact of a responsibility model based ...
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Leadership for Family and Community Involvement
This volume goes beyond administrative skills to examine educators' pivotal role of leading family & community involvement in school success.
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Growing Up American: Schooling and the Survival of Community
By Alan PeshkinThis book provides a rare insight into the processes of schooling in rural American, & the experiences of growing up in that setting.
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Full Service Schools: A Place for Our Children and Families to Learn and Be Healthy
By Robert F. Kronick(Nisbet, 1976, p. 14) Changing the level of analysis from the individual, we find another powerful insight from Nisbet when he says: Of course, science is concerned with problems, with questions rooted in empirical observation as well ...
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Continuing Challenges and Potential for Collaborative Approaches to Education Reform
By Susan J. Bodilly, Rita Karam, Nate OrrThe collaborating for Education Reform Initiative (CERI) provided grantees with funds, guidance, and technical assistance to develop collaboratives and carry out activities to improve teaching and learning.
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Scholars in Context: Prospects and Transitions
By Susan Danby, Alan Hayes, Karen MoniThis book demostrates how current researchers maintain a commitment to innovation and rigour despite the current uncertainties that bedevil higher education.
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Critically Engaged Learning: Connecting to Young Lives
By John SmythIn L. Christensen & S. Karp ( Eds . ) , Rethinking School Simon & Schuster . Quinn , J. ( 2005 ). Reform : Views from the Classroom ( pp . 60–75 ) . Milwaukee , WI : Rethinking Schools . Pinar , W. ( 1995 ) . The curriculum : what are ...
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The Transformation of Schools: Scenarios for Leadership and 'abandonment'
By Brian John CaldwellThe Transformation of Schools: Scenarios for Leadership and 'abandonment'
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Opportunity for All: A Framework for Quality and Equality in Education
By Jennifer A. O'Day, Marshall S. SmithIn Opportunity for All, the authors argue that our current standards-based policy framework needs to be connected to a continuous improvement approach to build on and scale up successes and to address gaps in outcomes.
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Education and Schooling
By William Kenneth RichmondSo far , the theory of education systems is in its infancy , yet the analyses of social scientists and social critics as different in background and approach as Earl Hopper , Pierre Bourdieu , Raymond Aron , Aldo Visalberghi , and Basil ...