America's Failing Schools: How Parents and Teachers Can Cope with No Child Left Behind
ISBN: 9780415949477 / Angielski / Twarda / 157 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In America's "Failing" Schools, W. James Popham provides parents and teachers explanations of No Child Left Behind as a whole, walking them through the implications for standardized testing in particular, in language that is uncomplicated and straightforward. Popham offers definitions of the law and its key terms, explanations of what it really means when a school is labeled "failing," and concrete suggestions for what can be done in response.
In America's "Failing" Schools, W. James Popham provides parents and teachers explanations of No Child Left Behind as a whole, walking them t...
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102,69 zł |
The Edison Schools : Corporate Schooling and the Assault on Public Education
ISBN: 9780415950466 / Angielski / Miękka / 248 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Illustrating the successes, failures, and ultimate demise of the largest for-profit manager of public schools, Saltman argues that the failures of The Edison Schools offer valuable lessons for the remaining educational management organizations.
Illustrating the successes, failures, and ultimate demise of the largest for-profit manager of public schools, Saltman argues that the failures of The...
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190,02 zł |
America's Failing Schools: How Parents and Teachers Can Cope with No Child Left Behind
ISBN: 9780415951289 / Angielski / Miękka / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since June 2004, millions of parents and teachers across the United States have been receiving report cards in the mail alerting them that their local schools have "failed," For many Americans, this was the first introduction to President Bush's controversial No Child Left Behind legislation, which calls for expanded student testing, more stringent accountability requirements, and annual school-focused report cards at the state, district, and school levels. The legislation ties substantial federal funds for disadvantaged students--which many... Since June 2004, millions of parents and teachers across the United States have been receiving report cards in the mail alerting them that their lo... |
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102,69 zł |
Becoming Subjects: Sexualities and Secondary Schooling: Sexualities and Secondary Schooling
ISBN: 9780415951616 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on key contemporary discourses related to sexualities and schooling. Such discourses include: educational strategies used to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students; considerations of how educators might influence students' sexual identity; narratives of risk and violence often asociated with LGBT youth; stories of salvation and protection; as well as debates relating to the 'closet' and calls to 'come out' in the classroom. People often are left out of discussions of sexualities and schooling are also incorporated in this text.
This book focuses on key contemporary discourses related to sexualities and schooling. Such discourses include: educational strategies used to support...
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899,00 zł |
Becoming Subjects: Sexualities and Secondary Schooling: Sexualities and Secondary Schooling
ISBN: 9780415951623 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book focuses on key contemporary discourses related to sexualities and schooling. Such discourses include: educational strategies used to support lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) students; considerations of how educators might influence students' sexual identity; narratives of risk and violence often asociated with LGBT youth; stories of salvation and protection; as well as debates relating to the 'closet' and calls to 'come out' in the classroom. People often are left out of discussions of sexualities and schooling are also incorporated in this text.
This book focuses on key contemporary discourses related to sexualities and schooling. Such discourses include: educational strategies used to support...
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205,43 zł |
Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth
ISBN: 9780415952507 / Angielski / Twarda / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, educational equity, and healthy adulthood. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth scholars to highlight the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being. Inspired by the conviction that urban youth have the right to more equitable educational and social resources and political representation, Beyond Resistance offers new insights into how to increase the... The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, edu... |
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899,00 zł |
Beyond Resistance! Youth Activism and Community Change: New Democratic Possibilities for Practice and Policy for America's Youth
ISBN: 9780415952514 / Angielski / Miękka / 400 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, educational equity, and healthy adulthood. This volume brings together the work of leading urban youth scholars to highlight the detrimental impact of zero tolerance policies on young people's educational experience and well being. Inspired by the conviction that urban youth have the right to more equitable educational and social resources and political representation, Beyond Resistance offers new insights into how to increase the... The failure of current policy to address important quality of life issues for urban youth remains a substantial barrier to civic participation, edu... |
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251,66 zł |
Reform as Learning : School Reform, Organizational Culture, and Community Politics in San Diego
ISBN: 9780415953764 / Angielski / Twarda / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. Drawing on the systemic school reform initiative that was launched in San Diego in the 1990s, this book explores all layers of the school reform process - from leadership in the central office, to work with principals and teachers, to the impact on how teachers worked with students in the classroom. The authors draw on careful ethnographic research collected over the entire four years of the San Diego reforms, in order to identify, not only... Looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. ... |
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899,00 zł |
Reform as Learning: School Reform, Organizational Culture, and Community Politics in San Diego
ISBN: 9780415953771 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. Drawing on the systemic school reform initiative that was launched in San Diego in the 1990s, this book explores all layers of the school reform process - from leadership in the central office, to work with principals and teachers, to the impact on how teachers worked with students in the classroom. The authors draw on careful ethnographic research collected over the entire four years of the San Diego reforms, in order to identify, not... Looking closely at the recent reform efforts in San Diego, this book explores the full range of critical issues pertaining to urban school reform. ... |
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241,40 zł |
Youth Learning on Their Own Terms: Creative Practices and Classroom Teaching
ISBN: 9780415954433 / Angielski / Twarda / 202 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Youth Learning On Their Own Terms convincingly shows how developing a respect and understanding of the youth-initiated creative practices that occur outside schools can offer educators the opportunity to directly influence their teaching in schools by making classroom spaces personally meaningful and rigorous for both students and teachers. Youth Learning On Their Own Terms convincingly shows how developing a respect and understanding of the youth-initiated creative practices that occu... |
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899,00 zł |
To What Ends and by What Means: The Social Justice Implications of Contemporary School Finance Theory and Policy
ISBN: 9780415954822 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 education system in the United States. The authors included in this volume provide critiques and explorations of several established theories and policy approaches that undergird contemporary thinking in the field of school finance. These explorations offer themselves as foundations for building new frameworks to understand how school finance policies might better support broader changes needed to improve the educational conditions faced by those... This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 educat... |
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873,32 zł |
To What Ends and by What Means?: The Social Justice Implications of Contemporary School Finance Theory and Policy
ISBN: 9780415954839 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 education system in the United States. The authors included in this volume provide critiques and explorations of several established theories and policy approaches that undergird contemporary thinking in the field of school finance. These explorations offer themselves as foundations for building new frameworks to understand how school finance policies might better support broader changes needed to improve the educational conditions faced by those... This unique collection examines the social justice implications of contemporary economic, finance, and budgeting policies affecting the K-12 educat... |
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205,43 zł |
Market Movements: African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform
ISBN: 9780415956086 / Angielski / Twarda / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as a means of removing their children from public schools they deemed unacceptable. The book works to discern the overlaps and tensions between the educational visions of African American voucher families and those of powerful conservative educational forces in U.S. society which purport to be allied with them. To the extent that there are points of divergence with the educational right, and points of...
Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working...
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899,00 zł |
Market Movements: African American Involvement in School Voucher Reform
ISBN: 9780415956093 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working class families who have used vouchers as a means of removing their children from public schools they deemed unacceptable. The book works to discern the overlaps and tensions between the educational visions of African American voucher families and those of powerful conservative educational forces in U.S. society which purport to be allied with them. To the extent that there are points of divergence with the educational right, and points of...
Through careful ethnographic research, Market Movements represents community leaders, school officials, and most importantly, African American working...
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220,85 zł |
Schooling and the Politics of Disaster
ISBN: 9780415956604 / Angielski / Miękka / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of education. From the natural disasters of the Asian tsunami and the hurricanes in the Gulf Coast, to the human-made disasters in Iraq, Afghanistan, Haiti, Sudan, Indonesia, the United States and around the globe, disaster is increasingly shaping policy and politics. This groundbreaking collection explores how education policy is being reshaped by disaster politics. Noted scholars in education and sociology tackle issues as far-ranging as No... Schooling and the Politics of Disaster is the first volume to address how disaster is being used for a radical social and economic reengineering of... |
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241,40 zł |
Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies
ISBN: 9780415957113 / Angielski / Twarda / 222 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Right to be Hostile, scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the school to prison' pipeline phenomenon, showing how disciplinary regulations, pedagogy, pop culture and more not only implicitly advance, but actually normalize an expectation of incarceration for urban youth. Analyzed through a framework of an expanding incarceration nation, Meiners demonstrates how educational practices that disproportionately target youth of color become linked directly to practices of racial profiling that are endemic in state structures. As early as preschool,...
In Right to be Hostile, scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the school to prison' pipeline phenomenon, s...
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899,00 zł |
Right to Be Hostile: Schools, Prisons, and the Making of Public Enemies
ISBN: 9780415957120 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Right to be Hostile, scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the "school to prison' pipeline phenomenon, showing how disciplinary regulations, pedagogy, pop culture and more not only implicitly advance, but actually normalize an expectation of incarceration for urban youth. Analyzed through a framework of an expanding incarceration nation, Meiners demonstrates how educational practices that disproportionately target youth of color become linked directly to practices of racial profiling that are endemic in state structures. As early as... In Right to be Hostile, scholar and activist Erica Meiners offers concrete examples and new insights into the "school to prison' pipeline ... |
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220,85 zł |
Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform: Science, Education, and Making Society by Making the Child
ISBN: 9780415958158 / Angielski / Miękka / 236 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform, noted educationalist Thomas Popkewitz explores turn-of-the-century and contemporary pedagogical reforms while illuminating their complex relation to cosmopolitanism. Popkewitz highlights how policies that include "all children" and leave "no child behind" are rooted in a philosophy of cosmopolitanism-not just in salvation themes of human agency, freedom, and empowerment, but also in the processes of abjection and the differentiation of the disadvantaged, urban, and child left behind as "Other." In Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform, noted educationalist Thomas Popkewitz explores turn-of-the-century and contemporary pedagogical re... |
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220,85 zł |
Merit Aid and the Politics of Education
ISBN: 9780415961004 / Angielski / Twarda / 206 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration of how states determine eligibility criteria for these scholarships. The selectivity of merit aid eligibility criteria can be as important as whether or not such programs are adopted. If, for example, merit aid programs have broad, easily-attained initial eligibility criteria, then a large proportion of high school graduates, including low-income and under-represented students, will gain eligibility. On the other hand, if the criteria are more... While a substantial number of studies have evaluated the effects of merit aid programs, there is a surprising lack of any systematic consideration ... |
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472,56 zł |
Foundations and Change in Early Childhood Education
ISBN: 9780471472476 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Sidebars - designed to extend students' understanding of the themes of the text
Enrichment Activities - can be used either as in class or as out of class projects For Further Reading and Professional Development Resources - provide resources for learning more about a particular topic Self-Assessment - designed to help you assess students' learning from the chapter Sidebars - designed to extend students' understanding of the themes of the text
Enrichment Activities - can be used either as in class or... |
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876,02 zł |