The Comprehensive High School Today

The Comprehensive High School Today
Author: Floyd M. Hammack
Publisher: Teachers College Press
Total Pages: 172
Release: 2004
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780807744550

Hammack has gathered a distinguished group to assess current reform efforts in their sociological and historical context, taking into account the vision of James B. Conanat, the major proponent of the comprehensive high schools. Contributors are: Mary Erina Driscoll, Joseph P. McDonald, Jeannie Oakes, John L. Rury, Roger Shouse, Amy Suart Wells.

The Comprehensive Public High School

The Comprehensive Public High School
Author: G. Sherington
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 232
Release: 2006-02-04
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1403982910

This book traces the decline of the public comprehensive high school. New educational markets emphasized school diversity and parental choice rather than social equity through common schooling, and they were criticized for declining standards. The book also considers government education policies and their regional manifestations.

Engaging Schools

Engaging Schools
Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2003-12-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0309084350

When it comes to motivating people to learn, disadvantaged urban adolescents are usually perceived as a hard sell. Yet, in a recent MetLife survey, 89 percent of the low-income students claimed "I really want to learn" applied to them. What is it about the school environmentâ€"pedagogy, curriculum, climate, organizationâ€"that encourages or discourages engagement in school activities? How do peers, family, and community affect adolescents' attitudes towards learning? Engaging Schools reviews current research on what shapes adolescents' school engagement and motivation to learnâ€"including new findings on students' sense of belongingâ€"and looks at ways these can be used to reform urban high schools. This book discusses what changes hold the greatest promise for increasing students' motivation to learn in these schools. It looks at various approaches to reform through different methods of instruction and assessment, adjustments in school size, vocational teaching, and other key areas. Examples of innovative schools, classrooms, and out-of-school programs that have proved successful in getting high school kids excited about learning are also included.

Kiplinger's Personal Finance

Kiplinger's Personal Finance
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 48
Release: 1955-02
Genre:
ISBN:

The most trustworthy source of information available today on savings and investments, taxes, money management, home ownership and many other personal finance topics.

Quality and Quantity in American Education

Quality and Quantity in American Education
Author: Frederick Charles Gruber
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2016-11-11
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1512802158

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.