Special Education at the Century's End is one of the most comprehensive examinations of special education to date. It traces special education's development into a major institution in the United States by examining the major debates and decisions that occurred during its growth from the early 1970s, a period of optimism and anticipation, through the current era of controversy and reevaluation. Special Education at the Century's End begins with articles from the 1970s, a time when children's rights to educational equity were being established in the courts and legislatures. The book then examines the reforms initiated in the 1970s and presents the changes that still must be made to ensure equity and fairness in education. The final section concentrates on special education practice by reevaluating traditional approaches to educating special needs students and offering new alternatives for working with and understanding these students.

Special Education at the Century's End: Evolution of Theory and Practice Since 1970 (Reprint No. 23)

Thomas Hehir

History

Harvard Education Press

In Value-Added Measures in Education, economist and education researcher Douglas N. Harris takes on one of the most hotly debated topics in education. Drawing on his extensive work with schools and districts, he sets out to help educators and policy makers understand this innovative approach to assessment. Written in straightforward language and illustrated with actual student achievement data, this essential volume shows how value-added measurement can help schools make better use of their data and discusses the strengths and limitations of this approach.

Value-Added Measures in Education: What Every Educator Needs to Know

Education & Teaching

Harris, Douglas N.

Schools & Teaching

So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools

This frank and courageous book explores the persistence of failure in today’s urban schools. At its heart is the argument that most education policy discussions are disconnected from the daily realities of urban schools, especially those in poor and beleaguered neighborhoods. Charles M. Payne argues that we have failed to account fully for the weakness of the social infrastructure and the often dysfunctional organizational environments of urban schools and school systems. The result is that liberals and conservatives alike have spent a great deal of time pursuing questions of limited practical value in the effort to improve city schools. Payne carefully delineates these stubborn and intertwined sources of failure in urban school reform efforts of the past two decades. Yet while his book is unsparing in its exploration of the troubled recent history of urban school reform, Payne also describes himself as “guardedly optimistic.” He describes how, in the last decade, we have developed real insights into the roots of school failure, and into how some individual schools manage to improve. He also examines recent progress in understanding how particular urban districts have established successful reforms on a larger scale. Drawing on a striking array of sources—from the recent history of various urban school systems, to the growing sophistication of education research, to his own experience as a teacher, scholar, and participant in reform efforts—Payne paints a vivid and unmistakably realistic portrait of urban schools and reforms of the past few decades. So Much Reform, So Little Change will be required reading for everyone interested in the plight—and the future—of urban schools.

Payne, Charles M.

Afterschool Education: Approaches to an Emerging Field

Gil G. Noam

Gina Biancarosa

Nadine Dechausay

The Strategic Management of Charter Schools: Frameworks and Tools for Educational Entrepreneurs (Educational Innovations Series)

The Strategic Management of Charter Schools addresses the challenges facing such schools by mapping out, in straightforward and highly pragmatic terms, a management framework for them. The first charter school law in the United States was enacted in Minnesota in 1991. In the twenty years since that modest beginning, the movement has burgeoned and spread across the country: there are now more than five thousand charter schools attended by nearly two million students. Yet due to this rapid growth in the number of charter schools and to their generally independent character, the nature and quality of these institutions vary greatly. The promise of charter schools is great, but so are the organizational and educational challenges they face. Organized around three crucial challenges to charter school leaders—managing mission, managing internal operations, and managing the larger stakeholder environment—the book provides charter school leaders with indispensable tools and insights for achieving educational and organizational success. In its elucidation of these managerial challenges, and in its equally helpful and detailed examinations of particular schools, the book offers a clear, credible approach to the efficient and sustainable management of what are still young and experimental educational institutions. The Strategic Management of Charter Schools is a volume in the Educational Innovations series.

Frumkin, Peter

Edgington, Nell

Manno, Bruno V.

Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

The authors of Make Just One Change argue that formulating one’s own questions is “the single most essential skill for learning”—and one that should be taught to all students. They also argue that it should be taught in the simplest way possible. Drawing on twenty years of experience, the authors present the Question Formulation Technique, a concise and powerful protocol that enables learners to produce their own questions, improve their questions, and strategize how to use them. Make Just One Change features the voices and experiences of teachers in classrooms across the country to illustrate the use of the Question Formulation Technique across grade levels and subject areas and with different kinds of learners.

Santana, Luz

Rothstein, Dan

Reference

Getting It Done: Leading Academic Success in Unexpected Schools

"Getting It Done describes in clear and helpful detail what leaders of successful high-poverty and high-minority schools have done to promote and sustain student achievement. It follows two celebrated books by Karin Chenoweth: “It’s Being Done,” which established that the work of educating all children is possible, and How It’s Being Done, which examined the structures and processes necessary to support academic success. Getting It Done turns to the crucial issue of school leadership, exploring how school leaders have promoted unprecedented levels of school and student achievement. A book that focuses on real leaders—and on the knowledge and skills that they have employed on behalf of heightened achievement—Getting It Done will be essential reading for school leaders, and for all who believe that a successful education can be attained by all students."

Chenoweth, Karin

Theokas, Christina

"Getting It Done describes in clear and helpful detail what leaders of successful high-poverty and high-minority schools have done to promote and sustain student achievement. It follows two celebrated books by Karin Chenoweth: “It’s Being Done,” which established that the work of educating all children is possible, and How It’s Being Done, which examined the structures and processes necessary to support academic success. Getting It Done turns to the crucial issue of school leadership, exploring how school leaders have promoted unprecedented levels of school and student achievement. A book that focuses on real leaders—and on the knowledge and skills that they have employed on behalf of heightened achievement—Getting It Done will be essential reading for school leaders, and for all who believe that a successful education can be attained by all students."

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Special Education at the Century's End: Evolution of Theory and Practice Since 1970 (Reprint No. 23)

Value-Added Measures in Education: What Every Educator Needs to Know

So Much Reform, So Little Change: The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools

Afterschool Education: Approaches to an Emerging Field

The Strategic Management of Charter Schools: Frameworks and Tools for Educational Entrepreneurs (Educational Innovations Series)

The Strategic Management of Charter Schools: Frameworks and Tools for Educational Entrepreneurs (Educational Innovations Series)

Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

Make Just One Change: Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions

Getting It Done: Leading Academic Success in Unexpected Schools

Getting It Done: Leading Academic Success in Unexpected Schools