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College and Career Ready

Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School

By: David T. Conley

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College and Career Ready

Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School

By: David T. Conley

Giving students the tools they need to succeed in college and work College and Career Ready offers educators a blueprint for improving high school so that more students are able to excel in freshman-level college courses or entry-level jobs-laying a solid foundation for lifelong growth and success. The book is filled with detailed, practical guidelines and case descriptions of what the best high schools are doing. Includes clear guidelines for high school faculty to adapt their programs of instruction in the direction of enhanced college/career readiness Provides practical strategies for improving students' content knowledge and academic behaviors Offers examples of best practices and research-based recommendations for change The book considers the impact of behavioral issues-such as time management and study habits-as well as academic skills on college readiness.

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0470593261

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College Knowledge

What It Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready

By: David T. Conley

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What It Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready

By: David T. Conley

Although more and more students have the test scores and transcripts to get into college, far too many are struggling once they get there. These students are surprised to find that college coursework demands so much more of them than high school. For the first time, they are asked to think deeply, write extensively, document assertions, solve non-routine problems, apply concepts, and accept unvarnished critiques of their work. College Knowledge confronts this problem by looking at the disconnect between what high schools do and what colleges expect and proposes a solution by identifying what students need to know and be able to do in order to succeed. The book is based on an extensive three-year project sponsored by the Association of American Universities in partnership with The Pew Charitable Trusts. This landmark research identified what it takes to succeed in entry-level university courses. Based on the project's findings - and interviews with students, faculty, and staff - this groundbreaking book delineates the cognitive skills and subject area knowledge that college-bound students need to master in order to succeed in today's colleges and universities. These Standards for Success cover the major subject areas of English, mathematics, natural sciences, social sciences, second languages, and the arts.

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0787996750

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Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core

What Every Educator Needs to Know

By: David T. Conley

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Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core

What Every Educator Needs to Know

By: David T. Conley

Create programs that prepare students for college, careers, and the new and challenging assessments of the Common Core State Standards Written for all educators but with an emphasis on those at the secondary level, this important resource shows how to develop programs that truly prepare students for both the Common Core assessments and for college and career readiness. Based on multiple research studies conducted by Conley as well as experience he has gained from working with dozens of high schools that succeed with a wide range of students, the book provides specific strategies for teaching the CCSS in ways that improve readiness for college and careers for the full range of students. Draws from research-based models for creating programs for high school students that will ensure readiness for tests and for college and beyond Includes strategies and practices for teachers to help students develop postsecondary preparedness Is the third in a series of books on readiness written by David Conley, including College Knowledge and College and Career Ready Teachers can use this valuable resource to understand the "big picture" behind the Common Core State Standards, how to teach to them in ways that prepare students for new, challenging assessments being implemented over the next few years and, more importantly, how to help all students be ready for learning beyond high school.

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1118551141

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College Knowledge

What It Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready

By: David T. Conley

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What It Really Takes for Students to Succeed and What We Can Do to Get Them Ready

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Who Governs Our Schools?

Changing Roles and Responsibilities

By: David T. Conley

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Who Governs Our Schools?

Changing Roles and Responsibilities

By: David T. Conley

This book provides valuable insights into a dynamic structural change that is being experienced, but not completely understood, by educators and policymakers alike--the transfer of power from the local to the state and national levels. What will become of our public schools in this new era of leadership? The author traces the origins of this process, examines the implications, and considers where these changes might lead. This extremely timely volume: -Explores the direction of education policy and the ways in which both policymakers and educators can adapt and provide leadership in this new landscape.-Offers a concise, accessible summary of a multitude of specific programs and policies, helping us to think more systematically about the shifts in power relationships among education governance levels.-Presents an outline of actions that can be taken at the local, state, and national levels to help facilitate better working relationship and to help improve schools.-Examines the new federal role and recent federal legislation, including the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001.

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Teachers College Press

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0807743321

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College and Career Ready

Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School

By: David T. Conley

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Helping All Students Succeed Beyond High School

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Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core

What Every Educator Needs to Know

By: David T. Conley

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What Every Educator Needs to Know

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Explicit and Authentic Acts

Amending the U.S. Constitution 1776–2015, With a New Afterword

By: David E. Kyvig

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Explicit and Authentic Acts

Amending the U.S. Constitution 1776–2015, With a New Afterword

By: David E. Kyvig

In time for the 225th anniversary of the Bill of Rights, David Kyvig completed an Afterword to his landmark study of the process of amending the US Constitution. The Afterword discusses the many amendments, such those requiring a balanced federal budget or limiting the terms of members of Congress, that have been proposed since the book was originally published and why they failed of passage. At a time when prominent scholars and other public figures have called for a constitutional convention to write a new constitution, arguing that our current system of governance is unsustainable Kyvig reminds us of the high hurdles the founders created to amending the constitution and how they have served the country well, preventing the amendment process from being used by one faction to serve the passions of the moment. In his farewell address, President Washington reminded his audience that the Constitution, "till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all." He regarded the Constitution as a binding document worthy of devout allegiance, but also believed that it contains a clear and appropriate procedure for its own reform. David Kyvig's illuminating study provides the most complete and insightful history of that amendment process and its fundamental importance for American political life. Over the course of the past two centuries, more than 10,000 amendments have been proposed by the method stipulated in Article V of the Constitution. Amazingly, only 33 have garnered the required two-thirds approval from both houses of Congress, and only 27 were ultimately ratified into law by the states. Despite their small number, those amendments have revolutionized American government while simultaneously legitimizing and preserving its continued existence. Indeed, they have dramatically altered the relationship between state and federal authority, as well as between government and private citizens. Kyvig reexamines the creation and operation of Article V, illuminating the process and substance of each major successful and failed effort to change the formal structure, duties, and limits of the federal government. He analyzes in detail the Founders' intentions; the periods of great amendment activity during the 1790s, 1860s, 1910s, and 1960s; and the considerable consequences of amendment failure involving slavery, alcohol prohibition, child labor, New Deal programs, school prayer, equal rights for women, abortion, balanced budgets, term limits, and flag desecration.

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University Press of Kansas

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0700622292

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Reinventing America's Schools

Creating a 21st Century Education System

By: David Osborne

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Reinventing America's Schools

Creating a 21st Century Education System

By: David Osborne

From David Osborne, the author of Reinventing Government--a biting analysis of the failure of America's public schools and a comprehensive plan for revitalizing American education. In Reinventing America's Schools, David Osborne, one of the world's foremost experts on public sector reform, offers a comprehensive analysis of the charter school movements and presents a theory that will do for American schools what his New York Times bestseller Reinventing Government did for public governance in 1992. In 2005, when Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, the city got an unexpected opportunity to recreate their school system from scratch. The state's Recovery School District (RSD), created to turn around failing schools, gradually transformed all of its New Orleans schools into charter schools, and the results are shaking the very foundations of American education. Test scores, school performance scores, graduation and dropout rates, ACT scores, college-going rates, and independent studies all tell the same story: the city's RSD schools have tripled their effectiveness in eight years. Now other cities are following suit, with state governments reinventing failing schools in Newark, Camden, Memphis, Denver, Indianapolis, Cleveland, and Oakland. In this book, Osborne uses compelling stories from cities like New Orleans and lays out the history and possible future of public education. Ultimately, he uses his extensive research to argue that in today's world, we should treat every public school like a charter school and grant them autonomy, accountability, diversity of school designs, and parental choice.

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Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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1632869918

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Dreamwalker: Native Guide

By: David C. Dillon

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Dreamwalker: Native Guide

By: David C. Dillon

A little-known society of the Lakota tribe developed the skill to dream about the future. It was accepted that dreams could not necessarily bring about what a person wanted, but that they could be used to inform upon the future and protect people from harm. Despite the societys secrecy, however, a man named Conley is aware of it, thanks to his Lakota grandmother. At least, he is sure that if he dreams of something, it is bound to come true, one way or another. Upon receiving a letter from his Grandma Violet announcing a visit, Conley suspects she has something important to tell himmaybe even something about their family history. Soon, he experiences a recurring dream about a Native American woman who looks like his grandma. Coaxed by this dream and his grandmothers visit, Conley realizes he must go to South Dakota and search for his spirit guide. Once there, Conley experiences a vision quest that allows him to better understand his skill. His dreams soon turn dark and dangerous, though, and he fears for those closest to him. Danger lingers nearby, and Conley must do all he can to prevent harm from spreading. He hopes to use his dreams to fight back, with the help of his spirit guide, but he must find the right cluesotherwise, Conley could end up dead.

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iUniverse

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1475944136

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Writing Geographical Exploration

James and the Northwest Passage, 1631-33

By: Wayne Kenneth David Davies,Arctic Institute of North America

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Writing Geographical Exploration

James and the Northwest Passage, 1631-33

By: Wayne Kenneth David Davies,Arctic Institute of North America

His tale of adventure should occupy a more prominent place in the study of exploration, literature and history, not only in Canada, but also in his homeland of Wales."--Jacket.

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University of Calgary Press

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1552380629

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Who Governs Our Schools?

Changing Roles and Responsibilities

By: David T. Conley

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Changing Roles and Responsibilities

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Book's by David T. Conley

College and Career Ready

College and Career Ready

College Knowledge

College Knowledge

Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core

Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core

College Knowledge

College Knowledge

Who Governs Our Schools?

Who Governs Our Schools?

College and Career Ready

College and Career Ready

Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core

Getting Ready for College, Careers, and the Common Core

Explicit and Authentic Acts

Explicit and Authentic Acts

Reinventing America's Schools

Reinventing America's Schools

Dreamwalker: Native Guide

Dreamwalker: Native Guide

Writing Geographical Exploration

Writing Geographical Exploration

Who Governs Our Schools?

Who Governs Our Schools?

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