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How The Other Half Learns

Equality, excellence, and the battle over school choice

By: Robert Pondiscio

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How The Other Half Learns

Equality, excellence, and the battle over school choice

By: Robert Pondiscio

An inside look at America's most controversial charter schools, and the moral and political questions around public education and school choice. The promise of public education is excellence for all. But that promise has seldom been kept for low-income children of color in America. In How the Other Half Learns, teacher and education journalist Robert Pondiscio focuses on Success Academy, the network of controversial charter schools in New York City founded by Eva Moskowitz, who has created something unprecedented in American education: a way for large numbers of engaged and ambitious low-income families of color to get an education for their children that equals and even exceeds what wealthy families take for granted. Her results are astonishing, her methods unorthodox. Decades of well-intended efforts to improve our schools and close the "achievement gap" have set equity and excellence at war with each other: If you are wealthy, with the means to pay private school tuition or move to an affluent community, you can get your child into an excellent school. But if you are poor and black or brown, you have to settle for "equity" and a lecture--about fairness. About the need to be patient. And about how school choice for you only damages public schools for everyone else. Thousands of parents have chosen Success Academy, and thousands more sit on waiting lists to get in. But Moskowitz herself admits Success Academy "is not for everyone," and this raises uncomfortable questions we'd rather not ask, let alone answer: What if the price of giving a first-rate education to children least likely to receive it means acknowledging that you can't do it for everyone? What if some problems are just too hard for schools alone to solve?

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Penguin

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0525533753

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How The Other Half Learns

Equality, excellence, and the battle over school choice

By: Robert Pondiscio

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Equality, excellence, and the battle over school choice

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The State of the Black Family

Sixty Years of Tragedies and Failures—and New Initiatives Offering Hope

By: Robert Cherry

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The State of the Black Family

Sixty Years of Tragedies and Failures—and New Initiatives Offering Hope

By: Robert Cherry

Too many Black Americans live in neighborhoods that are filled with gun violence, dysfunctional and abusive families, and children with deficient academic and behavioral skills. Instead of engaging in an open-minded search for solutions, too many pundits and politicians are content to point their fingers at systemic racism, while dismissing individual effort and traditional measures of merit as part and parcel of a system that is irredeemably broken. In The State of the Black Family, the economist Robert Cherry presents a blueprint for a robust set of policies that can break the cycle of intergenerational poverty and move these families forward by providing direct family support, practical educational approaches, housing policies to reinvigorate neighborhoods, and on-ramps to higher-paying jobs—an approach that enjoyed a broad consensus before leftwing social justice themes hijacked the conversation.

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246

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Emancipation

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1637586108

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9781637586105

The Resourceful Reader

Readings to Accompany the Harbrace and Hodges' Handbooks

By: Robert Miller,Suzanne S. Webb

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The Resourceful Reader

Readings to Accompany the Harbrace and Hodges' Handbooks

By: Robert Miller,Suzanne S. Webb

The Resourceful Reader, Fifth Edition, is designed to accompany The Hodges' Harbrace Handbook 14th edition and The Hodges' Harbrace Handbook. The unique design provides a harmonious interaction between handbook and reader and, as a result, offers the instructor unprecedented efficiency in teaching.

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Wadsworth Publishing Company

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0155069799

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9780155069794

Something in Common

The Common Core Standards and the Next Chapter in American Education

By: Robert Rothman

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Something in Common

The Common Core Standards and the Next Chapter in American Education

By: Robert Rothman

Something in Common is the first book to provide a detailed look at the groundbreaking Common Core State Standards and their potential to transform American education. This book tells the story of the unfolding political drama around the making of the Common Core State Standards for math and English language arts, which were adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia over a six-month period in 2010, after decades of similar proposals had gone down in flames. As a senior fellow at the major organization promoting the Common Core standards, education writer Bob Rothman gives the reader a bird’s eye view of this unfolding drama and brings the major players to life with lively anecdotes and behind-the-scenes details. He describes the developments leading up to the historic agreement and compares them to earlier efforts. He also explains the content of the standards in depth, describes steps being taken to implement them, and examines how the assessment consortia plan to measure student performance against the new standards. The book is a must-have reference work for researchers, practitioners, school leaders, policy makers, and others interested in contemporary education policy and reform.

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Harvard Education Press

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1612504515

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9781612504513

Assessing the Common Core: What's Gone Wrong--And How to Get Back on Track

By: Robert C. Calfee,Kathleen M. Wilson

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Assessing the Common Core: What's Gone Wrong--And How to Get Back on Track

By: Robert C. Calfee,Kathleen M. Wilson

From distinguished educators, this book imagines what our schools could look like if an authentic vision of the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) were put in place, and thoughtfully critiques how and why implementation has faltered. The authors outline a curriculum framework that focuses on student-based inquiry and the use of formative assessment to monitor and guide student learning. They provide workable, innovative alternatives to the packaged instructional programs and summative tests that have come to be associated with the English language arts (ELA) standards. Vignettes of diverse schools and districts highlight a range of successful approaches to making the CCSS work.

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Guilford Publications

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1462524338

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9781462524334

Get on the Net:

Everything You Need To Know About The Internet, Including The World Wide Web And Addresses For Hundreds Of Fun And Useful Sites

By: Robert Pondiscio

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Get on the Net:

Everything You Need To Know About The Internet, Including The World Wide Web And Addresses For Hundreds Of Fun And Useful Sites

By: Robert Pondiscio

Discusses such topics as e-mail, Internet service providers, the World Wide Web, safety concerns, multimedia, and sites for families and kids

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240

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HarperCollins

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0380803348

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9780380803347

Kids On-Line

By: Various

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Kids On-Line

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A children's guide to surfing the Internet reveals how to correspond with people all over the world, access online reference services, meet television stars, join clubs, and get instant information on everything from weather to sports. Original.

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HarperCollins

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0380782316

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9780380782314

Going to Net: Girl's Gde

By: Various

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Going to Net: Girl's Gde

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A guide to what information resources are available on the Internet, how to find them, and how to use them.

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HarperCollins

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0380786613

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9780380786619

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How The Other Half Learns

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How The Other Half Learns

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The State of the Black Family

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The Resourceful Reader

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Something in Common

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Assessing the Common Core: What's Gone Wrong--And How to Get Back on Track

Assessing the Common Core: What's Gone Wrong--And How to Get Back on Track

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