Book Description
Provides in-depth portraits of six exemplary American high schools, revealing many different elements that create a climate of excellence while describing high school life today.
Author : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Publisher : New York : Basic Books
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 18,31 MB
Release : 1983-11-14
Category : Education
ISBN :
Provides in-depth portraits of six exemplary American high schools, revealing many different elements that create a climate of excellence while describing high school life today.
Author : Paul Thomas Hill
Publisher : RAND Corporation
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 27,98 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Education
ISBN :
This study, conducted in New York City, analyzes big-city high schools: how they function and how the education of the low-income minority youth in these high schools can be improved. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author : Scott Seider
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 35,2 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781612504865
Summary: The author "offers portraits of three high-performing urban schools that have made character development central to their mission. [The book] highlights each school's unique approach to character development and shows how qualities like empathy, integrity, perseverance, and daring can nurture student success."--p. 4 of cover.
Author : Pamela Grundy
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 25,83 MB
Release : 2017-08-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1469636085
At a time when race and inequality dominate national debates, the story of West Charlotte High School illuminates the possibilities and challenges of using racial and economic desegregation to foster educational equality. West Charlotte opened in 1938 as a segregated school that embodied the aspirations of the growing African American population of Charlotte, North Carolina. In the 1970s, when Charlotte began court-ordered busing, black and white families made West Charlotte the celebrated flagship of the most integrated major school system in the nation. But as the twentieth century neared its close and a new court order eliminated race-based busing, Charlotte schools resegregated along lines of class as well as race. West Charlotte became the city's poorest, lowest-performing high school—a striking reminder of the people and places that Charlotte's rapid growth had left behind. While dedicated teachers continue to educate children, the school's challenges underscore the painful consequences of resegregation. Drawing on nearly two decades of interviews with students, educators, and alumni, Pamela Grundy uses the history of a community's beloved school to tell a broader American story of education, community, democracy, and race—all while raising questions about present-day strategies for school reform.
Author : James P. Owen
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 2015-03-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1629141399
A new approach to business ethics is quietly taking hold in executive suites and corporate boardrooms across America. Frustrated by an epidemic of misbehavior at all employee levels, management teams are getting back to basics—back to the idea that personal character and individual responsibility are the ultimate keys to integrity, just as they were back in the days of the Open Range. A decade ago, the book Cowboy Ethics first inspired businesspeople to look to the Code of the West. Once they did, they discovered that its simple, common-sense principles can be more effective guides to business leadership than a truckload of corporate mission statements, rules, and ethics manuals. “Cowboys are role models because they live by a code,” says author James P. Owen. “They show us what it means to stand for something, and to strive every day to make your actions line up with your beliefs. And isn’t that as good a definition of integrity as you can find?” In the years since, the book’s “Ten Principles to Live By” have been embraced by scores of companies, universities, and even a state government. This updated Tenth Anniversary hardcover edition traces the evolution of this grassroots business movement in brand-new chapters while preserving the inspirational lessons and stunning photography of the original. It’s ideal for corporate gifts, the new graduate, business students, or any career person who cares about doing the right thing.
Author : Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
Publisher :
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 21,30 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Education
ISBN : 0465026966
An award winning book by the noted Harvard educator which examines six schools that have earned reputations for excellence.
Author : Marvin W Berkowitz
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 35,45 MB
Release : 2021-04-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 1351030248
Winner of the 2023 Outstanding Book Award from AERA's Moral Development and Education SIG! In PRIMED for Character Education, renowned character educator Marvin W Berkowitz boils down decades of research on evidence-based practices and thought-provoking field experience into a clear set of principles that leaders, administrators, and teacher-leaders can implement to help students thrive. The author’s original six-component framework offers a comprehensive guide to shaping purposeful learning environments, healthy relationships, core values and virtues, role models, empowerment, and long-term development in any PreK-12 school or district. This engaging and heartfelt book features tips for practice, anecdotes from award-winning schools, and straightforward tenets from moral education, social-emotional learning, and positive psychology.
Author : New York (N.Y.). Board of Education. Committee on Character Education
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 15,88 MB
Release : 1925
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Thomas Lickona
Publisher : Bantam
Page : 498 pages
File Size : 29,37 MB
Release : 2009-09-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 0307569489
Calls for renewed moral education in America's schools, offering dozens of programs schools can adopt to teach students respect, responsibility, hard work, and other values that should not be left to parents to teach.
Author : Oakland (Calif.). Board of Education
Publisher :
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 17,20 MB
Release : 1926
Category : Character
ISBN :