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Legal Rights, Local Wrongs

When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity

By: Kevin G. Welner

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When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity

By: Kevin G. Welner

Shows how education reforms take place within cauldrons of political interests and conflicting values and beliefs.

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0791451275

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Potential Grizzlies

Making the Nonsense Bearable

By: Kevin G. Welner

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Potential Grizzlies

Making the Nonsense Bearable

By: Kevin G. Welner

If all humor does indeed come from pain, then American educational policymaking has been a petri dish brimming with hilarity. Even before Betsy DeVos ascended to her perch atop the U.S. Department of Education, her predecessors had offered up an excruciating decade of fodder for satire. Ably assisted by a bevy of billionaires, foundations, and advocacy think tanks, these policymakers unleashed a torrent of rhetorical gibberish and evidence-free “innovations” on the nation’s children and their schools. Potential Grizzlies: Making the Nonsense Bearable is one researcher’s attempt to laugh instead of cry. The book will bring back memories of policymakers from more innocent times, from Michelle Rhee to Arne Duncan to Chris Christie. Sit back and relax with fond thoughts of your favorite policies, from testing to school choice to “parent trigger.” Or maybe just smile and imagine a day when policymakers turn to research evidence and knowledgeable educators to build a sound future for our children. Praise for Potential Grizzlies: Making the Nonsense Bearable: "Kevin Welner deftly skewers every phony reform fad of the past twenty years with a sharp blade, neatly removing head from body without leaving a trace. He says in a few cleverly chosen anecdotes what many of us have tried to prove in laborious tomes. The so-called "reform" movement is a hoax. Read it and laugh!" Diane Ravitch, Research Professor of Education at New York University, and author of Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Fight to Save America's Public Schools "During these days of grim headlines, Potential Grizzlies provides welcome relief. With clever twists about "reformers" and their projects, Welner captures the tragic hilarity of what friends of public schools have lived through for the past decades. Every time I thought I read the most hilarious "tweak" of ed reform, I would find a new favorite a few pages later. A must-read for those who have waged the fight against NCLB, Race to the Top, privatization, and of course Betsy DeVos." Carol Burris, Executive Director of the Network for Public Education, and author of On the Same Track: How Schools Can Join the Twenty-First-Century Struggle against Resegregation "Welner expertly jumbles satire, research and education reform into this must-read book, which simultaneously covers where we’ve come from, why, and where we are going with education reform. Honestly I’m angry that my blog is not as funny as this. Read it, unless you don’t have a funny bone." Julian Vasquez Heilig, Dean and Professor, University of Kentucky College of Education

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1648022995

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NeoVouchers

The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling

By: Kevin G. Welner

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NeoVouchers

The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling

By: Kevin G. Welner

While school vouchers have captured the headlines, a different policy has captured the students. Tuition tax credit laws are now entrenched in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Iowa, and Georgia, and they affect far more students. Yet few people understand the nature of these policies or the political and legal issues surrounding them. This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, legality, and policy implications of tuition tax credits, which have garnered only scant attention even while expanding to cover more students than the voucher policies they're designed to emulate. At a time when tax credit policies are becoming a major form of American school choice, this book offers insights into both the strengths and weakness ofthe approach.

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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

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0742565815

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9780742565814

Small Doses of Arsenic

A Bohemian Woman's Story of Survival

By: Sylvia Welner,Kevin Grant Welner

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Small Doses of Arsenic

A Bohemian Woman's Story of Survival

By: Sylvia Welner,Kevin Grant Welner

Small Doses of Arsenic is a historical memoir of a spirited woman born into a village in Bohemia in 1905. Tonca began writing her memoirs in conversational letters to her emigrant son in America when she was 80 and continued sending them up to the age of 91. In a Czechoslovakia that was buffeted by two world wars and the Soviet occupation, Tonca's letters discuss family and social matters, creating a humanized version of history that reflects the lives of rural, working-class Czech poor of the twentieth century. For additional information on this book, please visit the authors website at www.welners.com.

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University Press of America

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0761832580

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9780761832584

Handbook of Crime Correlates

By: Lee Ellis,Kevin M. Beaver,John Wright

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Handbook of Crime Correlates

By: Lee Ellis,Kevin M. Beaver,John Wright

Over the past two centuries, many aspects of criminal behavior have been investigated. Finding this information and making sense of it all is difficult when many studies would appear to offer contradictory findings. The Handbook of Crime Correlates collects in one source the summary analysis of crime research worldwide. It provides over 400 tables that divide crime research into nine broad categories: - Pervasiveness and intra-offending relationships - Demographic factors - Ecological and macroeconomic factors - Family and peer factors - Institutional factors - Behavioral and personality factors - Cognitive factors - Biological factors - Crime victimization and fear of crime Within these broad categories, tables identify regions of the world and how separate variables are or are not positively or negatively associated with criminal behavior. Criminal behavior is broken down into separate offending categories of violent crime, property crime, drug offenses, sex offenses, delinquency, general and adult offenses, and recidivism. Accompanying each table is a description of what each table indicates in terms of the positive or negative association of specific variables with specific types of crime by region. This book should serve as a valuable resource for criminal justice personnel and academics in the social and life sciences interested in criminal behavior.

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Academic Press

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0080920098

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9780080920092

Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice

By: Kevin K. Kumashiro

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Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice

By: Kevin K. Kumashiro

What does it mean to teach for social justice? Drawing on his own classroom experiences, leading author and educator Kevin K. Kumashiro examines various aspects of anti-oppressive teaching and learning and their implications for six different subject areas and various grade levels. Celebrating 20 years as a go-to resource for K-12 teachers and teacher educators, this 4th edition of the bestselling Against Common Sense: Teaching and Learning Toward Social Justice features: • An expanded introduction that examines teaching in today’s context of censorship and attacks on diversity, democracy, and teaching truth; • New sections on teacher preparation, social studies, reading and writing, and the arts; • Updated lists of resources in every chapter; • Graphics, teacher responses, and discussion questions to enhance comprehension and help translate theory into practice across the disciplines. Compelling and accessible, the 4th edition of Against Common Sense continues to offer readers the tools they need to begin teaching against their commonsensical assumptions and toward democracy and justice.

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Taylor & Francis

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1040029973

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Schizophrenia

By: Kevin Silber

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Schizophrenia

By: Kevin Silber

This comprehensive introduction to schizophrenia is an ideal starting point for students. It covers the theoretical foundations of different perspectives of schizophrenia, including medical, evolutionary and social, to give readers a solid grounding and then discusses the various forms of treatments and the arguments surrounding each perspective.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1137446528

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The Education Debate

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: David Kirp,Kevin Macpherson

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The Education Debate

What Everyone Needs to Know®

By: David Kirp,Kevin Macpherson

A compelling overview of the major debates in contemporary education policy. In statehouses, school boards, and communities across the US, battles are raging over the direction of education policy--from the standards that are shaping what students learn to how test results are being used to judge a teacher's performance. These battles are being waged against a backdrop of shifting demographics, rapidly developing technology, a transforming economy and workplace. What's more, the COVID-19 pandemic is prompting educators to rethink the school's mission in society. In The Education Debate: What Everyone Needs to Know®, nationally recognized education authority David Kirp and Kevin Macpherson provide a balanced, accessible overview of the key policy and practice issues in pre k-12 education today. They expose the fault lines of the major debates--what values should guide education and how can those values best be incorporated in policy and practice. They focus on equity and equality of opportunity as well as the tension between market and bureaucratic mechanisms as drivers of school improvement. Many of the topics they address, including racial integration, charter schools, student rights and teachers' unions, are hotly contested. In an area where partisanship reigns, Kirp and Macpherson take an approach guided by research and not driven by ideology. A primer for educational policymakers and administrators, parents, and undergraduate and graduate students in education courses, The Education Debate offers a solid grasp of the major debates in contemporary education policy.

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Oxford University Press

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0197531350

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School's Choice

How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment

By: Wagma Mommandi,Kevin Welner

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School's Choice

How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment

By: Wagma Mommandi,Kevin Welner

This book takes a comprehensive look at the ways in which charters control enrollment and retention in their schools, often limiting equitable access for all students. It critiques the manner in which charters "counsel out" students--frequently English learners, students with special needs, and non-White students--for even minor infractions or poor academic performance, and urges state and federal policy makers to design a more inclusive and equitable charter sector"--

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Teachers College Press

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0807765813

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Legal Rights, Local Wrongs

When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity

By: Kevin G. Welner

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When Community Control Collides with Educational Equity

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Shows how education reforms take place within cauldrons of political interests and conflicting values and beliefs.

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Assessment in Practice

Explorations in Identity, Culture, Policy and Inclusion

By: Alicia Curtin,Kevin Cahill,Kathy Hall,Dan O'Sullivan,Kamil Özerk

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Assessment in Practice

Explorations in Identity, Culture, Policy and Inclusion

By: Alicia Curtin,Kevin Cahill,Kathy Hall,Dan O'Sullivan,Kamil Özerk

Assessment in Practice explores timely and important questions in relation to assessment. By examining the relationship between identity, culture, policy and inclusion, the book investigates the conflicted and fractured battleground of assessment, and challenges current and practiced understandings of assessment practice. The authors encourage the reader to reconceptualise assessment as a sociocultural practice. Each chapter studies a key theme in the understanding of assessment policy and practice from a sociocultural perspective and provides questions to prompt reflection on the key assessment concepts outlined in the book. Using culture as both a lens and analytic tool, the chapters examine topics such as The social order of assessment, how assessment works in the world and how learning could be assessed Perspectives on social justice and assessment, with a particular focus on social class and other potential inequalities on the experiences of assessment for young people Discussions of ability and the assessment of students with special education needs as well as the role of inclusivity in assessment practice Written by leading academics from University College Cork, the third volume in the successful Routledge Current Debates in Educational Psychology series is an essential read for researchers and postgraduate students in educational research and education psychology.

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1000627462

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Current Issues in Education Policy and the Law

By: Kevin Grant Welner,Wendy C. Chi

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Current Issues in Education Policy and the Law

By: Kevin Grant Welner,Wendy C. Chi

Educational policy controversies in the United States invariably implicate legal issues. Policy debates about testing and school choice, for example, cannot be disentangled from legal rights and mandates. The same is true for issues such as funding, campus safety, speech and religion rights, as well as the teaching of immigrant students. Written for a general audience, this new twelve-chapter book explores these compelling educational policy issues through that legal lens, building an understanding of both law and policy. The book's editors are Kevin Welner, associate professor of educational policy at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and Wendy Chi, a doctoral candidate at Boulder. Both Welner and Chi are lawyers as well as educational scholars.

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Information Age Publishing

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159311656X

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Potential Grizzlies

Making the Nonsense Bearable

By: Kevin G. Welner

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Making the Nonsense Bearable

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NeoVouchers

The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling

By: Kevin Grant Welner

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NeoVouchers

The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling

By: Kevin Grant Welner

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the structure, legality, and policy implications of tuition tax credit policies. At a time when these tax credit policies are becoming a major form of American school choice, this book offers insights into both the strengths and weakness of the approach.

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0742540804

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School's Choice

How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment

By: Wagma Mommandi,Kevin Welner

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School's Choice

How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment

By: Wagma Mommandi,Kevin Welner

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0807765813

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School’s Choice

How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment

By: Wagma Mommandi,Kevin Welner

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School’s Choice

How Charter Schools Control Access and Shape Enrollment

By: Wagma Mommandi,Kevin Welner

Access issues are pivotal to almost all charter school tensions and debates. How well are these schools performing? Are they segregating and stratifying? Are they public and democratic? Are they fairly funded? Can apparent successes be scaled up? Answers to all these core questions hinge on how access to charter schools is shaped. This book describes the incentives and pressures on charter schools to restrict access and examines how charters navigate those pressures, explaining access-restricting practices in relation to the ecosystem within which charter schools are created. It also explains how charters have sometimes responded by resisting the pressures and sometimes by surrendering to them. The text presents analyses of 13 different types of practices around access, each of which shapes the school’s enrollment. The authors conclude by offering recommendations for how states and authorizers can address access-related inequities that arise in the charter sector. School’s Choice provides timely information on critical academic and policy issues that will come into play as charter school policy continues to evolve. Book Features: Examines how charter schools control who gains and retains access.Explores policies and practices that undermine equitable admission and encourage opportunity hoarding.Offers a set of policy recommendations at the state and federal level to address access-related issues.

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0807779806

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Public Relations For Schools

A Resource Guide for Principals

By: Sally S. Lundblad,G. Kent Stewart

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Public Relations For Schools

A Resource Guide for Principals

By: Sally S. Lundblad,G. Kent Stewart

This handbook is for practitioners who lead public and private elementary schools, middle schools or high schools. While most school leaders are basically adept at public relations, this book serves as a reminder of the importance of good public relations and provides ready access to tools necessary to hone and refine public relations skills. In addition to important information about public relations, this handbook is replete with examples of good public relations practices.

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1607524872

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Small Doses of Arsenic

A Bohemian Woman's Story of Survival

By: Sylvia Welner,Kevin Grant Welner

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A Bohemian Woman's Story of Survival

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