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Exam Schools

Author : Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400844576
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Exam Schools written by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-16 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at academically selective public high schools in America What is the best education for exceptionally able and high-achieving youngsters? Can the United States strengthen its future intellectual leadership, economic vitality, and scientific prowess without sacrificing equal opportunity? There are no easy answers but, as Chester Finn and Jessica Hockett show, for more than 100,000 students each year, the solution is to enroll in an academically selective public high school. Exam Schools is the first-ever close-up look at this small, sometimes controversial, yet crucial segment of American public education. This groundbreaking book discusses how these schools work--and their critical role in nurturing the country's brightest students. The 165 schools identified by Finn and Hockett are located in thirty states, plus the District of Columbia. While some are world renowned, such as Boston Latin and Bronx Science, others are known only in their own communities. The authors survey the schools on issues ranging from admissions and student diversity to teacher selection. They probe sources of political support, curriculum, instructional styles, educational effectiveness, and institutional autonomy. Some of their findings are surprising: Los Angeles, for example, has no "exam schools" while New York City has dozens. Asian-American students are overrepresented—but so are African-American pupils. Culminating with in-depth profiles of eleven exam schools and thoughtful reflection on policy implications, Finn and Hockett ultimately consider whether the country would be better off with more such schools. At a time of keen attention to the faltering education system, Exam Schools sheds positive light on a group of schools that could well provide a transformative roadmap for many of America's children.

Charter Schools at the Crossroads

Author : Chester E. Finn (Jr.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781612509778
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Charter Schools at the Crossroads written by Chester E. Finn (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book by several charter school advocates taking stock of the past, present, and future of the charter movement.--

Charter Schools in Action

Author : Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400823412
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Charter Schools in Action written by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2001-07-30 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can charter schools save public education? This radical question has unleashed a flood of opinions from Americans struggling with the contentious challenges of education reform. There has been plenty of heat over charter schools and their implications, but, until now, not much light. This important new book supplies plenty of illumination. Charter schools--independently operated public schools of choice--have existed in the United States only since 1992, yet there are already over 1,500 of them. How are they doing? Here prominent education analysts Chester Finn, Bruno Manno, and Gregg Vanourek offer the richest data available on the successes and failures of this exciting but controversial approach to education reform. After studying one hundred schools, interviewing hundreds of participants, surveying thousands more, and analyzing the most current data, they have compiled today's most authoritative, comprehensive explanation and appraisal of the charter phenomenon. Fact-filled, clear-eyed, and hard-hitting, this is the book for anyone concerned about public education and interested in the role of charter schools in its renewal. Can charter schools boost student achievement, drive educational innovation, and develop a new model of accountability for public schools? Where did the idea of charter schools come from? What would the future hold if this phenomenon spreads? These are some of the questions that this book answers. It addresses pupil performance, enrollment patterns, school start-up problems, charges of inequity, and smoldering political battles. It features close-up looks at five real--and very different--charter schools and two school districts that have been deeply affected by the charter movement, including their setbacks and triumphs. After outlining a new model of education accountability and describing how charter schools often lead to community renewal, the authors take the reader on an imaginary tour of a charter-based school system. Charter schools are the most vibrant force in education today. This book suggests that their legacy will consist not only of helping millions of families obtain a better education for their children but also in renewing American public education itself.

Course of Study and Rules and Regulations of the Public Schools of Chester Illinois

Author : Chester (Ill.). Board of Education
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Course of Study and Rules and Regulations of the Public Schools of Chester Illinois written by Chester (Ill.). Board of Education and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Catalogue and Circular of the West Chester State Normal School of the First District

Author : West Chester State Teachers College
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Catalogue and Circular of the West Chester State Normal School of the First District written by West Chester State Teachers College and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

1883-1884 West Chester State Normal School Undergraduate Course Catalog

Author : West Chester State Normal School
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385103975
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (851 download)

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Download or read book 1883-1884 West Chester State Normal School Undergraduate Course Catalog written by West Chester State Normal School and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-12-18 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

The School Plant ...

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The School Plant ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code

Author : Joseph Bruchac
Publisher : Albert Whitman & Company
ISBN 13 : 0807500089
Total Pages : 35 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Chester Nez and the Unbreakable Code written by Joseph Bruchac and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Junior Library Guild Selection April 2018 2018 Cybils Award Finalist, Elementary Non-Fiction BRLA 2018 Southwest Book Award 2019 Southwest Books of the Year: Kid Pick 2020 Grand Canyon Award, Nonfiction Nominee 2020-2021 Arkansas Diamond Primary Book Award Master List STARRED REVIEW! "A perfect, well-rounded historical story that will engage readers of all ages. A perfect, well-rounded historical story that will engage readers of all ages."—Kirkus Reviews starred review Chester Nez was a boy told to give up his Navajo roots. He became a man who used his native language to help America win World War II. As a young Navajo boy, Chester Nez had to leave the reservation and attend boarding school, where he was taught that his native language and culture were useless. But Chester refused to give up his heritage. Years later, during World War II, Chester—and other Navajo men like him—was recruited by the US Marines to use the Navajo language to create an unbreakable military code. Suddenly the language he had been told to forget was needed to fight a war.

Troublemaker

Author : Chester E. Finn, Jr.
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 140082821X
Total Pages : 377 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Troublemaker written by Chester E. Finn, Jr. and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-02-04 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few people have been more involved in shaping postwar U.S. education reforms--or dissented from some of them more effectively--than Chester Finn. Assistant secretary of education under Ronald Reagan, and an aide to politicians as different as Richard Nixon and Daniel Moynihan, Finn has also been a high school teacher, an education professor, a prolific and best-selling writer, a think-tank analyst, a nonprofit foundation president, and both a Democrat and Republican. This remarkably varied career has given him an extraordinary insider's view of every significant school-reform movement of the past four decades, from racial integration to No Child Left Behind. In Troublemaker, Finn has written a vivid history of postwar education reform that is also the personal story of one of the foremost players--and mavericks--in American education. Finn tells how his experiences have shaped his changing views of the three major strands of postwar school reform: standards-driven, choice-driven, and profession-driven. Of the three, Finn now believes that a combination of choice and standards has the greatest potential, but he favors this approach more on pragmatic than ideological grounds, arguing that parents should be given more options at the same time that schools are allowed more flexibility and held to higher performance norms. He also explains why education reforms of all kinds are so difficult to implement, and he draws valuable lessons from their frequent failure. Clear-eyed yet optimistic, Finn ultimately gives grounds for hope that the best of today's bold initiatives--from charter schools to technology to makeovers of school-system governance--are finally beginning to make a difference.

School and Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 812 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book School and Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

School & Society

Author : James McKeen Cattell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book School & Society written by James McKeen Cattell and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report of the Public Schools ...

Author : West Chester (Pa.). Board of School Directors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 924 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Report of the Public Schools ... written by West Chester (Pa.). Board of School Directors and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 924 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

School & Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 808 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book School & Society written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 808 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Nation's Schools

Author : Michael Vincent O'Shea
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 940 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Nation's Schools written by Michael Vincent O'Shea and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 940 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Achievement and Inclusion in Schools

Author : Lani Florian
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134165099
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (341 download)

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Download or read book Achievement and Inclusion in Schools written by Lani Florian and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-08-07 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **Winner of the nasen Special Educational Needs Academic Book award 2008** There is an enduring and widespread perception amongst policy makers and practitioners that certain groups of children, in particular those who find learning difficult, have a detrimental effect on the achievement of other children. Challenging this basic assumption, Achievement and Inclusion in Schools argues that high levels of inclusion can be entirely compatible with high levels of achievement and that combining the two is not only possible but essential if all children are to have the opportunity to participate fully in education. Packed with vivid case studies that explore the benefits and tensions for children and schools, this book sets out to answer the following questions: What is the nature of the relationship between the inclusion of some children and the achievement of all? Are there strategies which can raise the achievement of all children, whilst safeguarding the inclusion of others who are more vulnerable? What changes can a school make to ensure high levels of inclusion as well as high levels of achievement for all its children? Achievement and Inclusion in Schools offers an up-to-date analysis of current issues, provides practical guidance for practitioners and policy-makers, and will be of interest to anyone passionate about inclusive education.

Diversity Matters

Author : Lynn Kell Spradlin
Publisher : Wadsworth Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781111341671
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)

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Download or read book Diversity Matters written by Lynn Kell Spradlin and published by Wadsworth Publishing Company. This book was released on 2012 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is no single "cookbook" approach to working effectively with a diverse classroom population--and that's why this book is so useful. Its practical, research-based approach prepares educators to meet the unique demands of their intercultural interactions armed with knowledge that assures proper, responsive, and ethical intercultural communication. Based on current research and enriched by the individual voices of those with diverse worldviews, the book provides abundant practical, theoretically sound approaches for addressing the needs of those who are marginalized in today's classroom. Designed to engage readers intellectually and emotionally, this distinctive book will move you from the realm of understanding (head), through personal valuing (heart), and finally to applying (voice) the information provided.

How to Educate an American

Author : Michael J. Petrilli
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599475707
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book How to Educate an American written by Michael J. Petrilli and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2020-02-24 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years after A Nation at Risk, conservatives’ ideas to reform America’s lagging education system gained much traction. Key items like school choice and rigorous academic standards drew bipartisan support and were put into practice across the country. Today, these gains are in retreat, ceding ground to progressive nostrums that do little to boost the skills and knowledge of young people. Far from being discouraged, however, conservatives should seize the moment to refresh their vision of quality K–12 education for today’s America. These essays by 20 leading conservative thinkers do just that. Students, according to this vision, should complete high school with a thorough understanding of the country’s history, including gratitude for its sacrifices, respect for its achievements, and awareness of its shortcomings. They should also learn to be trustworthy stewards of a democratic republic, capable of exercising virtue and civic responsibility. Beyond helping to form their character, schools ought to ready their pupils for careers that are productive, rewarding, and dignified. Excellent technical-training opportunities will await those not headed to a traditional college. Regardless of the paths and schools that they select, all students must come to understand that they can succeed in America if they are industrious, creative, and responsible. Anchored in tradition yet looking towards tomorrow, How to Educate an American should be read by anyone concerned with teaching future generations to preserve the country’s heritage, embody its universal ethic, and pursue its founding ideals.