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| Author | : Patrick J. Finn |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 335 |
| Release | : 2010-03-25 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1438428049 |
A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.
| Author | : M. Elizabeth Graue |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 330 |
| Release | : 1993-01-01 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780791412039 |
This book looks at readiness from a different perspective, arguing that we must move away from the readiness-as-child characteristic so prevalent in education and the popular press. Instead, readiness is explained as an idea constructed by parents, teachers, and children as they interact in their neighborhoods and communities. Graue describes three communities in the same school district: a middle-class, suburban town of professionals; a rural, working-class community; and a group of Hispanic, working-class families making their way through their children's kindergarten experiences. In each setting, the local meaning of readiness is the underlying theme in the actions taken by parents and their attitudes about their children's first public school experience.
| Author | : Patrick J. Finn |
| Publisher | : SUNY Press |
| Total Pages | : 243 |
| Release | : 1999-08-26 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 9780791442869 |
A passionate plea for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive. Strategies for reaching and teaching these children are presented.
| Author | : Frederick S. Weaver |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2010-10-16 |
| Genre | : Business & Economics |
| ISBN | : 1442204230 |
In its third edition, Economic Literacy: Basic Economics with An Attitude, explains the logic, language, and worldview of economic theory while maintaining the engaging and accessible style that has made earlier editions so successful. While covering the fundamentals of the discipline, the author also includes a wide range of new material focusing on the structure, causes and results of the 'Great Recession'. From microeconomics and macroeconomics to the composition of international and domestic economies, Economic Literacy also makes the key distinction between economics as an academic discipline and the economy as a practical reality. By analyzing this crucial difference, the book encourages students to think critically about the distinctive viewpoint proposed by academic economics and its influence on politics and culture. Using this approach, readers will be enabled to understand both current affairs and professional economics literature, making this book uniquely beneficial for students both practically and theoretically. Never grim, often witty, and frequently insightful into our turbulent financial times, Economic Literacy's third edition is a must for students of economics everywhere.
| Author | : Fredric G. Gale |
| Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
| Total Pages | : 204 |
| Release | : 1994-02-03 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1438403623 |
Political Literacy confronts and responds to the question: What is required of the citizens of a democracy to ensure their individual and social rights? Exploring the rhetoric of legal interpretation, this book answers that citizens must be so educated as to have an intellectual awareness of the inherently rhetorical nature of language. Political Literacy explodes the myth that justice is delivered in the measured, seemingly disinterested, written decisions of America's highest courts. Instead, it reveals the political nature of legal opinions and their necessarily ideological perspectives. Using arguments and examples from a variety of ancient and modern writers and thinkers, the book defines political literacy for the first time. Fredric Gale passionately calls for changes in the way the public is educated about the justice system and about the risk of complacency in this crucial area of public life.
| Author | : Frederick S. Weaver |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 290 |
| Release | : 2006-09-27 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 0742568857 |
With wit and verve, Economic Literacy explains the logic, language, and worldview of economic theory and engagingly describes the organization and performance of the U.S. economy. Its combination of theory and description is essential for understanding debates about current affairs, penetrating the literature of economics, and reflecting on the usefulness and limits of economic analysis. Updated throughout, the second edition includes new discussions of social security, tax reform, surging petroleum prices, and the economic effects of the Iraq war and other international issues.
| Author | : Nelson Lauver |
| Publisher | : Nelson Lauver |
| Total Pages | : 315 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 0983040303 |
Life in idyllic 1960s McAlisterville, Pennsylvania seems so promising to young Nelson Lauver. But undiagnosed dyslexia soon turns hope and optimism into struggle and shame as he falls far behind in school and is branded lazy. Confused, angry, and determined not to be the dumb kid, he chooses instead to become the bad kid- ending up a loner at odds with the world and with himself. Nelson resigns himself to being hopelessly different and joins the ranks of millions of Americans who try to hide their inability to read and write. At age 29, a chance encounter leads to a diagnosis of dyslexia and a profound rebirth. Ironically, the boy who was afraid to have anyone hear him try to read launches a new career as a writer, broadcaster and speaker. An estimated 10 to 20 percent of Americans suffer from a learning disability. 14 percent of American adults are considered functionally illiterate. More than personalizing these sobering statistics, this uplifting memoir goes beyond one man's account of rising above a learning disability. Most Unlikely to Succeed is an inspirational story that will speak eloquently and profoundly to anyone who has ever struggled to be heard, to be understood, or to make his or her way in the world.
| Author | : Linda Christensen |
| Publisher | : Rethinking Schools |
| Total Pages | : 203 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0942961250 |
Give students the power of language by using the inspiring ideas in this very readable book.
| Author | : Phyllis Haddox |
| Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
| Total Pages | : 416 |
| Release | : 1986-06-15 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 0671631985 |
A step-by-step program that shows parents, simply and clearly, how to teach their child to read in just 20 minutes a day.
| Author | : Joyce L. Epstein |
| Publisher | : Corwin Press |
| Total Pages | : 508 |
| Release | : 2018-07-19 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1483320014 |
Strengthen programs of family and community engagement to promote equity and increase student success! When schools, families, and communities collaborate and share responsibility for students′ education, more students succeed in school. Based on 30 years of research and fieldwork, the fourth edition of the bestseller School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, presents tools and guidelines to help develop more effective and more equitable programs of family and community engagement. Written by a team of well-known experts, it provides a theory and framework of six types of involvement for action; up-to-date research on school, family, and community collaboration; and new materials for professional development and on-going technical assistance. Readers also will find: Examples of best practices on the six types of involvement from preschools, and elementary, middle, and high schools Checklists, templates, and evaluations to plan goal-linked partnership programs and assess progress CD-ROM with slides and notes for two presentations: A new awareness session to orient colleagues on the major components of a research-based partnership program, and a full One-Day Team Training Workshop to prepare school teams to develop their partnership programs. As a foundational text, this handbook demonstrates a proven approach to implement and sustain inclusive, goal-linked programs of partnership. It shows how a good partnership program is an essential component of good school organization and school improvement for student success. This book will help every district and all schools strengthen and continually improve their programs of family and community engagement.
