Independent researchers interview urban middle school students to get their impressions of the teachers that help them to succeed in schools. According to the many student voices in this book, urban middle school students want teachers who “stay on them” to complete their work, maintain orderly classrooms, give them the extra help they need to succeed, explain their work clearly, draw on a variety of teaching strategies, and make their work relevant and meaningful. This book, rich in detail, brings these inner-city students’ perspectives to life and issues a compelling call for urban school reform that actually touches students’ daily lives.

Listening to Urban Kids: School Reform and the Teachers They Want (Suny Series, Restructuring and School Change)

History

Corbett, Dick

Wilson, Bruce L.

Americas

State University of New York Press

According to the many student voices in this book, urban middle school students want teachers who "stay on them" to complete their work, maintain orderly classrooms, give them the extra help they need to succeed, explain their work clearly, draw on a variety of teaching strategies, and make their work relevant and meaningful. This book, rich in detail, brings these inner-city students' perspectives to life and issues a compelling call for urban school reform that actually touches students' daily lives.

Listening to Urban Kids: School Reform and the Teachers They Want

Creating and Sustaining Arts-Based School Reform

Taking a close look at the issue of the arts and school reform, this book explores in detail how the incorporation of the arts into the identity of a school can be key to its resilience. Based on the A+ School Program, an arts-based school reform effort, it is much more than a report of a single case - this landmark study is a comprehensive, longitudinal analysis of arts in education initiatives that discusses the political, fiscal, and curricular implications inherent in taking the arts seriously.   Offering a model for implementation as well as evaluation that can be widely adapted in other schools and school districts, this book will inspire arts educators to move from advocating more arts to advocating the arts as a way to reform schools. Administrators and policy makers will see how curriculum integration can be used to revitalize and energize schools and serve as a springboard to wider reform initiatives. Researchers and students across the fields of arts education, school reform, organizational change, and foundations of education will be informed and enlightened by this real-world scenario of large-scale school reform.

Creating and Sustaining Arts-Based School Reform: The A+ Schools Program

Education & Teaching

Noblit, George W.

Corbett, H. Dickson

McKinney, Monica B.

Schools & Teaching

Routledge

Mandating Academic Excellence: High School Responses to State Curriculum Reform (Sociology of Education)

Book by Wilson, Bruce L., Rossman, Gretchen B.

Rossman, Gretchen B.

Teachers College Pr

A blend of quantitative and qualitative data which traces the impact of a state-level policy initiative to raise high school graduation requirements on school-level practices and student outcomes. It is aimed at those concerned with the way educational reform policy is influenced by local context.

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Little Magothy and Other Stories is a book of emphatic tales. The woods and waterways of the mid-Atlantic region are settings for some of Wilson's best work. His characters--intricate, enigmatic creatures who feel but don't always share--are tumbled haphazardly about these watery landscapes. Wilson's romping tragicomedies are a refreshing return to the art of writen escape. Readers weary of the dominant static breath of short fiction will happily embrace these artfully writen sagas of bliss, murder, magic and lust.

Little Magothy & Other Stories

Literature & Fiction

Im Pr

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