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Making Summer Count

How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning

By: Jennifer Sloan McCombs,Catherine H. Augustine,Heather L. Schwartz

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Making Summer Count

How Summer Programs Can Boost Children's Learning

By: Jennifer Sloan McCombs,Catherine H. Augustine,Heather L. Schwartz

Students typically lose knowledge and skills during the summer, particularly low-income students. Districts and private providers can benefit from the evidence on summer programming to maximize program effectiveness, quality, reach, and funding.

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Rand Corporation

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0833052713

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9780833052711

Focus on the Wonder Years

Challenges Facing the American Middle School

By: Jaana Juvonen,Vi-Nhuan Le,Tessa Kaganoff,Catherine H. Augustine,Louay Constant

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Focus on the Wonder Years

Challenges Facing the American Middle School

By: Jaana Juvonen,Vi-Nhuan Le,Tessa Kaganoff,Catherine H. Augustine,Louay Constant

Young teens undergo multiple changes that seem to set them apart from other students. But do middle schools actually meet their special needs? The authors describe some of the challenges and offer ways to tackle them, such as reassessing the organization of grades K-12; specifically assisting the students most in need; finding ways to prevent disciplinary problems; and helping parents understand how they can help their children learn at home.

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181

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Rand Corporation

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0833036157

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9780833036155

Improving School Leadership

The Promise of Cohesive Leadership Systems

By: Catherine H. Augustine

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Improving School Leadership

The Promise of Cohesive Leadership Systems

By: Catherine H. Augustine

Improving the nation's public schools is one of the highest priorities of federal, state, and local government in America. Recent research has shown that the quality of the principal is, among school-based factors, second only to the quality of the teacher in contributing to what students learn in the classroom. New programs to develop school leaders who can exercise vigilance over instruction and support effective teaching practices are not likely to succeed, however, if they are inconsistent with other state and district policies affecting school leadership. The Wallace Foundation, which focuses its grantmaking in education primarily on school leadership, has posited that well-coordinated policies and initiatives to develop leadership standards, provide high-quality training, and improve the conditions that affect principals' work will increase their ability to improve instruction in their schools. This study documents the actions taken by the Foundation's grantees to create a more cohesive set of policies and initiatives to improve instructional leadership in schools; describes how states and districts have worked together to forge such policies and initiatives around school leadership; and examines the hypothesis that more-cohesive systems do in fact improve school leadership. The study found that it is possible to build more-cohesive leadership systems and that such efforts appear to be a promising approach to developing school leaders engaged in improving instruction. Although the study did not find evidence that the full underlying theory behind this initiative is sound, it did find a correlation between improved conditions for principals and their engagement in instructional practices.

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Rand Corporation

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0833048910

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9780833048912

Education for a New Era

Design and Implementation of Kâ€“12 Education Reform in Qatar

By: Dominic J. Brewer,Catherine H. Augustine,Gail L. Zellman,Gery W. Ryan,Charles A. Goldman,Gery Ryan

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Education for a New Era

Design and Implementation of Kâ€“12 Education Reform in Qatar

By: Dominic J. Brewer,Catherine H. Augustine,Gail L. Zellman,Gery W. Ryan,Charles A. Goldman,Gery Ryan

Describes the first phase (2001-2004) of Qatar's bold K-12 education reform initiative, Education for a New Era, based on RAND's experiences as part of this ambitious, multi-participant effort. RAND examined the existing Qatari education system, recommended options for building a world-class system, and supported implementation of the chosen option, which is based on internationally benchmarked curriculum standards and parental choice of schools.

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217

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Rand Corporation

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0833047833

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9780833047830

Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination

By: Susan J. Bodilly,Catherine H. Augustine

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Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination

By: Susan J. Bodilly,Catherine H. Augustine

Initiatives to coordinate schools, cultural institutions, community-based organizations, foundations, and/or government agencies to promote access to arts education in and outside of schools have recently developed. This study looks at the collaboration efforts of six urban communities: how they started and evolved, the kinds of organizations involved, conditions that helped and that hindered coordination, and strategies used.

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109

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Rand Corporation

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0833045938

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9780833045935

Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing

Evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation's Window of Opportunity Initiative

By: Heather L. Schwartz,Raphael W. Bostic,Richard K. Green,Vincent J. Reina,Lois M. Davis,Catherine H. Augustine

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Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing

Evaluation of the MacArthur Foundation's Window of Opportunity Initiative

By: Heather L. Schwartz,Raphael W. Bostic,Richard K. Green,Vincent J. Reina,Lois M. Davis,Catherine H. Augustine

In 2000, the MacArthur Foundation began the Window of Opportunity, a 20-year, $187 million philanthropic initiative intended to help preserve privately owned affordable rental housing. The authors of this report assess whether the initiative achieved its goals and identify lessons learned about effective preservation practices, as well as about the implementation of large-scale philanthropic initiatives generally.

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Rand Corporation

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0833095013

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9780833095015

Ready for Fall? Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes

By: Jennifer Sloan McCombs,John F. Pane,Catherine H. Augustine,Heather L. Schwartz,Paco Martorell,Laura Zakaras

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Ready for Fall? Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes

By: Jennifer Sloan McCombs,John F. Pane,Catherine H. Augustine,Heather L. Schwartz,Paco Martorell,Laura Zakaras

The Wallace Foundation’s National Summer Learning Study, conducted by RAND and launched in 2011, offers the first assessment of district-run voluntary summer programs over the short and long run. This report, the second of five that will result from the study, looks at how summer programs affected student performance on math, reading, and social and emotional assessments in fall 2013.

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139

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Rand Corporation

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0833088203

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9780833088208

Getting to Work on Summer Learning

Recommended Practices for Success

By: Catherine H. Augustine,Jennifer Sloan McCombs,Heather L. Schwartz,Laura Zakaras

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Getting to Work on Summer Learning

Recommended Practices for Success

By: Catherine H. Augustine,Jennifer Sloan McCombs,Heather L. Schwartz,Laura Zakaras

RAND is conducting a longitudinal study that evaluates the effectiveness of voluntary summer learning programs in reducing summer learning loss, which contributes substantially to the achievement gap between low- and higher-income students. Based on evaluations of programs in six school districts, this second report in a series provides research-based advice for school district leaders as they create and strengthen summer programs.

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0833081349

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9780833081346

Christian Theological Tradition

By: Catherine Cory,Michael Hollerich

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Christian Theological Tradition

By: Catherine Cory,Michael Hollerich

This text helps students acquire a basic theological literacy in key persons and events of the Bible and the Christian faith, and in Christianity's encounter with culture at large. Historically arranged, it also addresses five major themes of systematic theology: revelation, God, creation, Jesus, and church.

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648

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Routledge

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1317349571

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9781317349570

Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World

By: Catherine M. Chin

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Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World

By: Catherine M. Chin

Between the years 350 and 500 a large body of Latin artes grammaticae emerged, educational texts outlining the study of Latin grammar and attempting a systematic discussion of correct Latin usage. These texts—the most complete of which are attributed to Donatus, Charisius, Servius, Diomedes, Pompeius, and Priscian—have long been studied as documents in the history of linguistic theory and literary scholarship. In Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World, Catherine Chin instead finds within them an opportunity to probe the connections between religious ideology and literary culture in the later Roman Empire. To Chin, the production and use of these texts played a decisive role both in the construction of a pre-Christian classical culture and in the construction of Christianity as a religious entity bound to a religious text. In exploring themes of utopian writing, pedagogical violence, and the narration of the self, the book describes the multiple ways literary education contributed to the idea that the Roman Empire and its inhabitants were capable of converting from one culture to another, from classical to Christian. The study thus reexamines the tensions between these two idealized cultures in antiquity by suggesting that, on a literary level, they were produced simultaneously through reading and writing techniques that were common across the empire. In bringing together and reevaluating fundamental topics from the fields of religious studies, classics, education, and literary criticism, Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World offers readers from these disciplines the opportunity to reconsider the basic conditions under which religions and cultures interact.

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University of Pennsylvania Press

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0812201574

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9780812201574

Ethical Exploration in a Multifaith Society

By: Catherine Shelley

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Ethical Exploration in a Multifaith Society

By: Catherine Shelley

This book considers the theory and application of ethics for a multifaith society. Much ethics taught in the UK has been dominated by Christian ethics, their relation to secularism and by the Enlightenment’s reaction against theology as a basis for ethical thought. In contrast to these perspectives this book brings secular and theological ethics into dialogue, considering the degree to which secular ethics has common roots with theological perspectives from various traditions. The book assesses the application of ethical and theological principles in today’s multifaith society. Aiming to enhance ethical understanding and awareness across divergent worldviews, identifying at what points divergence does occur, the author examines topics such as reason and ethics in theology, natural law, utilitarianism and deontology and differences of approach to interpreting religious scriptures. The focus on ethical methods is illustrated through topical concerns in religion and ethics, for example sexuality, marriage and education and religion in relation to global ethics and human rights.

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Springer

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3319467115

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Book's by Catherine H Augustine

Making Summer Count

Making Summer Count

Focus on the Wonder Years

Focus on the Wonder Years

Improving School Leadership

Improving School Leadership

Education for a New Era

Education for a New Era

Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination

Revitalizing Arts Education Through Community-Wide Coordination

Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing

Preservation of Affordable Rental Housing

Ready for Fall? Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes

Ready for Fall? Near-Term Effects of Voluntary Summer Learning Programs on Low-Income Students' Learning Opportunities and Outcomes

Getting to Work on Summer Learning

Getting to Work on Summer Learning

Christian Theological Tradition

Christian Theological Tradition

Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World

Grammar and Christianity in the Late Roman World

Ethical Exploration in a Multifaith Society

Ethical Exploration in a Multifaith Society

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