Part 1 of this book highlights the sociocultural political issues facing urban education and our urban communities.
Pupils are seriously under-achieving or dropping out, buildings are decaying, teachers are frustrated and parents are desperate. What's to be done? Louis and Miles focus on five in-depth case studies of urban schools.
Ben shu zuo zhe jiang ta de li shi guan zhi yu yi ge guang fan de zhan xin kuang jia zhi zhong, Ta jian shi le nei xie xing cheng mei guo jiao yu ti zhi zhi ji chu de zheng zhi he duo xing, Yi shi xing tai he quan li dou zheng.
... and to have parents and communities more involved in their neighborhood schools . Bloomberg never appeared to doubt that he would gain control of the schools ( Steinhauer March , 2002 ) . By early June 2002 , then - Governor Pataki ...
New Leaders is a nonprofit organization with a mission to ensure high academic achievement for all students by developing outstanding school leaders to serve in urban schools.
三、丰富学生的课余生活,为他们更好地适应社会打下基础。杭州市下城区社区教育活动案例活动实施过程(主要做法) 2009年开始,景安社区与杭州景成实验幼儿园共同探索,将学校教育与社区教育优势互补,形成合力,依托社区市民学校创办了“景安社区低碳课堂”, ...
Paul E. Peterson and others, “Are US Students Ready to Compete?” Education Next (2010). 5. The concept of continuous quality improvement was developed by W. Edwards Deming, who famously applied it to Japanese industry starting in the ...
This book explores the growing demand for school choice among poor families in the inner city. Stern describes the dramatic successes and occasional failures of this 'new civil rights movement'...
This text presents a compassionate view of teaching in an urban setting with practical suggestions, recommendations, and examples for powerful and effective teaching aimed at improving student academic performance....
Because the school has turned much of the current educational philosophy on end with impressive results. Because it has succeeded with the most ... Meanwhile, numerous states are experimenting with variations AGAINST THE CURRENT • Vll.
All students deserve the opportunity to reach their full literacy potential, yet research shows that the numerous challenges faced by today's urban schools prevent many students from achieving this goal....
A major recent development in education reform is the full or partial takeover of urban school districts by mayors. While the Progressive movement of the last century created independent school...
This book explores teaching music in the urban setting along with interviews and journal accounts from urban music teachers in a variety of specializations.
19 Urban Questions: Teaching in the City, the definitive overview of urban education, is provocative in style and rich in detail. Emphasizing the complexity of urban education, Steinberg, Kincheloe, and...
Misfits Missionaries
Profiles the controversial high school principal who employs a baseball bat to foster learning through intimidation, a method that has had surprisingly effective results.
Contributors to this book have illuminated the practices of literacy and learning in the lives of urban youth. Their descriptions and assessments of these practices are anchored in perspectives of «New Literacy Studies».
This educational truism frames our introduction to this book, which begins by unpacking what it means to teach morally and to teach morality as two facets of what we have come to call the moral work of teaching (henceforth MWT) (Sanger ...
Building on the linguistic knowledge that children bring to school is the focus of this book, which advocates the use of 'code-switching' to enable students to add another linguistic code...
The Changing Urban School