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Books on: school reform movement

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From the Campus: Perspectives on the School Reform Movement

Book by Sol Cohen, Lewis C. Solmon; Praeger Publishers, 1989

Subjects:

Education--Aims And Objectives--United States, Public Schools--United States, Teaching

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the alternative school movement burned brightly, flickered...handicapping the current reform movement, perhaps...advocates of the alternative school movement found a way...free" in the "free" school movement was never well...hastened the "free" school movement to its disappearance...college preparatory schools, the notion of freedom...
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The New Servants of Power: A Critique of the 1980s School Reform Movement

Book by Ernest Kahane, Christine M. Shea, Peter Sola; Praeger, 1990

Subjects:

Education--Aims And Objectives--United States, Educational Equalization--United States, Public Schools--United States--Evaluation

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Economy of the 1980s School Reform Movement Christine M. Shea INTRODUCTION Once again the schools are embroiled in a national...teacher preparation, school administration, and...consequences of these reforms. The cry for both...contemporary school reform rhetoric. Twentieth...
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American School Reform: Progressive, Equity, and Excellence Movements, 1883-1993

Book by Maurice R. Berube; Praeger, 1994

Subjects:

Educational Change--United States--History--19th Century, Educational Change--United States--History--20th Century, Educational Equalization--United States--History--19th Century, Educational Equalization--United States--History--20th Century, Progressive Education--United States--History--19th Century, Progressive Education--United States--History--20th Century

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...PRIVATIZATION The third great school reform movement began in the early 1980s...dubbed the excellence reform movement. It was triggered...performance of public school children in the United...that U.S. public schools had failed, and only...
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The Movement towards Catholic Reform in the Early XVI Century

Book by George V. Jourdan; John Murray, 1914

Subjects:

Reformation--Early Movements

Collections: Religious Studies, Entire Library

...cathedral or monastic school. As in the case...regulations, the later movement towards religious reform included efforts...founding of public schools. But there were...the opening of new schools, though scholars...2 Amongst the schools in London when Colet...revive and extend the school which was connected...
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School Reform in the Deep South: A Critical Appraisal

Book by David J. Vold, Joseph L. Devitis; University of Alabama Press, 1991

Subjects:

Educational Change--Alabama, Educational Change--Southern States, Public Schools--Southern States

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...that the public schools are for the public...community in the school. The drive toward...the Common School movement. This reform movement urged the...corporate model, school districts consolidated...administration has produced a school significantly unlike...and consolidated schools appear better equipped...

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Journal Articles on: school reform movement

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Chicago's Renaissance 2010: The Small Schools Movement Meets the Ownership Society: Would-Be Reformers Need to Beware of Those Who Would Co-opt the Language of Reform to Undermine Its Ideals. Mr. Ayers and Mr. Klonsky Examine How Chicago's Renaissance 2010 Initiative Has Used the Terms of the Small Schools Movement to Promote Privatization and the Erosion of Public Space

Journal article by William Ayers, Michael Klonsky; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 87, 2006

Subjects:

Educational reform--Analysis, Elementary schools--Management, Elementary schools--United States, High schools--Management

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Chicago, similar reform strategies are emerging in school districts nationwide...language of social movements can be co-opted...world of Chicago school reform, the simple...around the small-schools movement, "autonomy...efficiencies and run schools without due process...Chicagos latest public school reform strategy...
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The School Reform Movement and the Education of African American Youth

Journal article by Ralph Edwards, Lisa M. Gonsalves, Charles V. Willie; The Journal of Negro Education, Vol. 69, 2000

Collections: Education, Entire Library

The School Reform Movement and the Education of African...examines how the current School Reform Movement is meeting...of Black children, the School Reform Movement itself...under this leadership, schools now seem to be focusing...
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Inclusive Schools Movement and the Radicalization of Special Education Reform

Journal article by Douglas Fuchs, Lynn S. Fuchs; Exceptional Children, Vol. 60, 1994

Subjects:

Mainstreaming in education--Standards, Special education--Standards

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...inclusive schools, pp. 34...inclusive schools movement, "special education reform" is an oxymoron...inclusive school" denotes...control of the reform movement, prevalent...options in home schools: "While...inclusive school or classroom...
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A Nation at Risk and No Child Left Behind: Deja Vu for Administrators? from the Perspective of an Administrative Career That Was Bookended by A Nation at Risk and No Child Left Behind, Mr. Hunt Assesses the Impact of Three Successive Reform Movements on the Roles of Building- and District-Level Administrators

Journal article by John W. Hunt; Phi Delta Kappan, Vol. 89, 2008

Subjects:

Education and state--Analysis, Education policy--Analysis, Education--Evaluation, Education--Standards, Educational assessment, Educational evaluation, Educational reform--Analysis, Educational standards--Evaluation, No Child Left Behind Act of 2001, School administrators--Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Successive Reform Movements on the Roles of...of a junior high school in 1983, and I...criticism of the schools by legislators...determine whether we school administrators...district. If a school was orderly and...one writer, the reform movement was a political...we believe that schools boards must consciously...district levels if the reforms we propose are...
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How to Reform a Reform Coalition: Outreach, Agenda Expansion, and Brokerage in Urban School Reform

Journal article by Chris Ansell, Sarah Reckhow, Andrew Kelly; Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 37, 2009

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Coalition (Social sciences)--Laws, regulations and rules, Coalitions (Social sciences)--Laws, regulations and rules, Education and state--Interpretation and construction, Education policy--Interpretation and construction, Educational reform--Planning, School districts--Laws, regulations and rules

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...supportive of Oakland school reform--particularly the...of consensus on core reform priorities--particularly school autonomy--between...come at a cost to the movements concerted push for small, autonomous schools. How might reform...core of the reform movement, but greater caution...weak support from key school board members, who...

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Magazine Articles on: school reform movement

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Creating Sustainable Reform: Five Urban Districts Implement Models for Continuous Improvement and Lasting Change

Magazine article by Christopher R. Brown, David Spangler; School Administrator, Vol. 63, September 2006

Subjects:

Educational reform--Forecasts and trends, School districts--Management, School superintendents--Management

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Creating Sustainable Reform: Five Urban Districts...excellence. When reforms fail, it is often...beginning of a reform initiative building...districts. The school district is seeing...percent of elementary schools scoring an API...Whittier City Schools The reform movement in the Whittier, Calif., City School District began...
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The Education Wars: Teachers 'Unions and Reform Advocates Are Locked in Aright over the Future of Schools. Now the Battle Lines Have Started to Blur

Magazine article by Dana Goldstein; The American Prospect, Vol. 20, April 2009

Subjects:

American Federation of Teachers--Officials and employees, College administrators--Aims and objectives, Education reformers--Aims and objectives, Educational reform--Management, Obama, Barack--Education policy, Presidents (Organizations)--Aims and objectives, Presidents (Organizations)--Public opinion, Presidents (Organizations)--Speeches, lectures and essays, Rhee, Michelle--Aims and objectives, School districts--Laws, regulations and rules, School districts--Management, Teachers' unions--Aims and objectives, Weingarten, Randi--Aims and objectives, Weingarten, Randi--Public opinion, Weingarten, Randi--Speeches, lectures and essays

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...who embraces no reform at all, but...embrace a little reform and talk the...teachers union movement as it finds itself...teachers and school support staff...federal funding for schools. But Weingarten...advanced a vision of schools as community...shake up the way school districts are...for Education Reform, their two...leaders of this movement, such as Mayor...
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Increasing Opportunities for School Social Work Practice Resulting from Comprehensive School Reform

Magazine article by Joanne N. Corbin; Children & Schools, Vol. 27, October 2005

Subjects:

Decision making, Education reform, Public schools, Social work

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...subset of the larger CSR movement (Streeter Franklin...CSR, the role of the school social worker on each...clearly delineated. The school social work practice...experiences implementing a school reform program in schools throughout the United...
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Black America and the Great Debate over School Reform

Magazine article by Robin Bennefield; The New Crisis, Vol. 104, October 1997

Subjects:

Blacks, Education reform, Public schools

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...Simmons. The charter school movement becomes more complicated...involved. Some school districts have...to open charter schools. The AFT believes...to change public schools, it seems like...with different reforms. One option is...students within a school district to attend...NATIONAL STANDARDS One reform that has been proposed...
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National Academy Foundation at the Forefront of High School Reform

Magazine article by Susan Emeagwall; Techniques, Vol. 79, March 2004

Subjects:

Education reform, Quality of education, School districts

Collections: Education, Entire Library

...the Forefront of High School Reform by Susan Emeagwall More...established as a viable high school reform model to address...large comprehensive schools. High dropout rates...that are rife in urban school districts struggling...school-to-career movement. "Our job is to get...

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Newspaper Articles on: school reform movement

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School-Reform Movement; D.C. Not Only Jurisdiction Gaining Momentum

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, February 2, 2007

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

School-Reform Movement; D.C. Not Only Jurisdiction...far more than charter schools and vouchers. In New...outcomes in Americas largest school system, which has 1...is he creating smaller schools from large ones, but...
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The Reform-Schools-Now Movement? Mayor-Elect Wants to Shake Up the Establishment

Newspaper article; The Washington Times, November 17, 2006

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

The Reform-Schools-Now Movement? Mayor-Elect...interests anti-school choice advocates...austerity and school reform while...performing schools and violent...best to reform schools. One appointment...serves on the school board. Mr...
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The Battle to Defame Michelle Rhee; Critics' Charges Are Desperate Attempt to Derail School Reform across the Country

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), May 25, 2011

Subjects:

Educational reform, Rhee, Michelle

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...WASHINGTON TIMES Granted, school reform is not a sporting event...cheating in D.C. schools, we need a referee...campaign to smear former schools Chancellor Michelle...motives behind the movement to discredit Miss Rhee...pushed through dramatic school reforms. Almost overnight...
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Cloud of Cheating Hinders School Reform

Newspaper article; Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL), July 27, 2011

Subjects:

Educational reform

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...Cheating Hinders School Reform. Byline: Bill...100,000 public schools in the United...tremors through the movement to hold schools and teachers accountable...rating teachers and schools. A lack of public...center of the school reform debate...
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Charter Schools Finding Niches; Specialization Seen as the Next Wave of Reform

Newspaper article; The Washington Times (Washington, DC), August 30, 2010

Subjects:

African American soldiers, Charter schools

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...colleagues in the movement, said Jeanne...for Education Reform. But this race...relied on charter schools to rebuild its...rankings on how reform-friendly a school district is...pushing charter-school growth, said...that the charter movement is growing despite...growth of charter schools. When you look...

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Encyclopedia Articles on: school reform movement

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Judaism

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...repeatedly condemned. The Reform Movement and Zionism The emancipation...First dealt with by the Reform leaders of Germany...from God, while the Reform do not see them as authoritative...rituals. The "historical school," or Conservative movement...
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K'Ang Yu-Wei

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...philosopher and reform movement leader. He was...of the new text school of Confucianism...administrative reforms. That same year...chao he founded a reform newspaper and a...hundred days reform," the emperor...style provincial schools, abolished many...rescinded most of the reforms. Kang fled to...
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Progressive Education

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...the late 1950s the movement had collapsed. By...the progressive movement had effected a permanent...character of the American school, and many progressive schools across the country...Other educational reform movements that have been affected...education , the Summerhill school, and the reforms of Maria Montessori...
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Enfantin, BarthÉlemy Prosper

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...became a leader of the movement started by the comte...the Saint-Simonian school put increasing emphasis...and less upon political reform. Following a schism...Bazard over marriage reform, Enfantin established...for the remnants of the movement at Menilmontant. It...
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Weld, Theodore Dwight

Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009

Collections: Religious Studies, Education, Psychology, History, Literature, Philosophy, Entire Library

...temperance, and moral reform. After 1830 he became...leaders of the antislavery movement working with Arthur...direction to the antislavery movement and successfully spread...participation in the movement to found a school, Eaglewood, near Raritan...

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