Download or read book Failure of an Educational Contract written by Thomas Ashby Davis and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Educational Contract written by Sharon Washington and published by Createspace Independent Pub. This book was released on 2013-04-12 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The difficulty in explaining why so many African American students do so poorly in school is in peeling back the layers of why their parents let them. What's even more difficult to explain is how the 1954 US Supreme Court case /Brown/, which was intended to bring equality to education, actually has contributed to the phenomenon. THE EDUCATIONAL CONTRACT is a peek into the moral dilemma of a history that has shaped a cultural pattern of failure for more than sixty years in inner-city schools. Drawing on her own childhood experiences in high-poverty schools, and her work to transform some of the worst performing schools in the United States, Dr. Sharon Washington presents a look at this pattern of failure through the lens of a “social contract.” All schools have one...an unspoken, unwritten, but understood set of social expectations—that she calls an "educational contract." But at failing urban schools—the ones we see in the headlines for school closures, uninvolved parents, horrendously low test scores, and violence that has become so prevalent it, ironically, no longer makes the news—no one seems to be aware of it. What's more the "parties" of the "contract," the School and the parents among others, don't share the same values. The School believes parents should be their children's first, primary, and most important "teacher." On the other hand, most of the parents of these schools believe their only responsibility in their children's educational life is this: make sure the kid goes to school. Dr. Washington shows that this is a fixable problem—there are solutions that are possible, plausible, and doable and which can put inner-city schools on a dramatically different course. But it will take all of us.THE EDUCATIONAL CONTRACT is a penetrating and powerful call to action that takes the conversation of urban public schools to the masses.
Download or read book Contract for Failure written by Pamela A. Riley and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rights and Liabilities of Public School Boards Under Capital Outlay Contracts written by Frank Ernest Henzlik and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor based Grading Contracts written by Asao B. Inoue and published by Wac Clearinghouse. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asao B. Inoue argues for the use of labor-based grading contracts along with compassionate practices to determine course grades as a way to do social justice work with students.
Download or read book Contracts and Dismissals of Teachers in Illinois written by Illinois Education Association. Dept. of Research and Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1942 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teachers Contracts Principles and Practices written by National Education Association of the United States. Committee on Tenure and Academic Freedom and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Teacher Tenure and Contracts written by National Education Association of the United States. Research Division and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What We Owe Each Other written by Minouche Shafik and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thrive Whether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family, community, place of work, and fellow citizens. Caring for others, paying taxes, and benefiting from public services define the social contract that supports and binds us together as a society. Today, however, our social contract has been broken by changing gender roles, technology, new models of work, aging, and the perils of climate change. Minouche Shafik takes us through stages of life we all experience—raising children, getting educated, falling ill, working, growing old—and shows how a reordering of our societies is possible. Drawing on evidence and examples from around the world, she shows how every country can provide citizens with the basics to have a decent life and be able to contribute to society. But we owe each other more than this. A more generous and inclusive society would also share more risks collectively and ask everyone to contribute for as long as they can so that everyone can fulfill their potential. What We Owe Each Other identifies the key elements of a better social contract that recognizes our interdependencies, supports and invests more in each other, and expects more of individuals in return. Powerful, hopeful, and thought-provoking, What We Owe Each Other provides practical solutions to current challenges and demonstrates how we can build a better society—together.
Download or read book Why They Can t Write written by John Warner and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2018-12-03 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important challenge to what currently masquerades as conventional wisdom regarding the teaching of writing. There seems to be widespread agreement that—when it comes to the writing skills of college students—we are in the midst of a crisis. In Why They Can't Write, John Warner, who taught writing at the college level for two decades, argues that the problem isn't caused by a lack of rigor, or smartphones, or some generational character defect. Instead, he asserts, we're teaching writing wrong. Warner blames this on decades of educational reform rooted in standardization, assessments, and accountability. We have done no more, Warner argues, than conditioned students to perform "writing-related simulations," which pass temporary muster but do little to help students develop their writing abilities. This style of teaching has made students passive and disengaged. Worse yet, it hasn't prepared them for writing in the college classroom. Rather than making choices and thinking critically, as writers must, undergraduates simply follow the rules—such as the five-paragraph essay—designed to help them pass these high-stakes assessments. In Why They Can't Write, Warner has crafted both a diagnosis for what ails us and a blueprint for fixing a broken system. Combining current knowledge of what works in teaching and learning with the most enduring philosophies of classical education, this book challenges readers to develop the skills, attitudes, knowledge, and habits of mind of strong writers.
Download or read book Education Reform and Students at Risk written by Robert J. Rossi and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1999-06 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study was conducted by the Amer. Institutes for Research and the Johns Hopkins Center for the Education of Students Placed at Risk. Case studies were conducted of 12 model and 6 replicate school sites nationwide, and reports, books, articles, and practical guides for education practitioners were prepared. Reveals the essential mechanics of effective reforms for students at risk. Documents the incentives for and barriers to implementing and sustaining these reforms and their effects on students. This report reviews the findings of the study and presents their implications for policy, practice, and needed future research.
Download or read book School Restructuring Options Under No Child Left Behind written by Center for Comprehensive School Reform and Improvement and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Several years after the passage of NCLB, there are persistently low-performing schools in every state that face increasingly strong consequences for failing to improve student achievement sufficiently. Schools failing to make AYP for five consecutive years must engage in restructuring to improve student learning. Districts have several options for restructuring these schools. Although constrained to choose an option that is consistent with existing state law, districts can: (1) Reopen the school as a public charter school; (2) Replace "all or most of the school staff (which may include the principal) who are relevant to the failure to make adequate yearly progress;" (3) Contract with "an outside entity, such as a private management company, with a demonstrated record of effectiveness, to operate the school; (4) Turn the "operation of the school over to the state educational agency, if permitted under State law and agreed to by the State;" and (5) Engage in another form of major restructuring that makes fundamental reforms, "such as significant changes in the school's staffing and governance, to improve student academic achievement in the school and that has substantial promise of enabling the school to make adequate yearly progress." (No Child Left Behind Act, 2002) The "What Works When" series is designed to help district leaders understand what is known about when and under what circumstances each of these options works to improve student learning. This paper focuses on the third restructuring option, contracting with an outside entity to operate the school, which this paper calls "contracting." This paper examines what is known when contracting may work for districts grappling with individual low-performing schools. The contents are organized as follows: (1) Methodology; (2) What Is Contracting Under NCLB?; (3) What Is the Experience With Contracting?; (4) What Do We Know From These Experiences? Key Success Factors and Key Challenges; (5) What Further Research Is Needed to Understand Contracting?; and (6) Conclusion. [For the related report, "School Restructuring Under No Child Left Behind: What Works When? A Guide for Education Leaders," see ED496104. This work was originally produced in whole or in part by the North Central Regional Educational Laboratory[R] (NCREL[R]) with funds from the Institute of Education Sciences (IES), U.S. Department of Education.].
Download or read book The Teacher s Contract and Other Legal Phases of Teacher Status written by Earl William Anderson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book General School Laws written by North Dakota and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Political Failure by Agreement written by Gerhard Wegner and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gerhard Wegner provides new insight into the relation between democracies and market economies. He recognizes conflict between the two, but he doesn t propose constitutional controls over political action. Such proposals are grounded in the comparative static manipulation of equilibrium models. In contrast, Wegner advances an evolutionary theory of political economy, and uses this theory to explain how processes of societal learning might be set in motion that could expand support for market arrangements through time. This thoughtful and challenging book will repay examination by all students of political economy. Richard E. Wagner, George Mason University, US In drawing particular attention to the implications of evolutionary market theory for public policy Gerhard Wegner adds a novel and instructive line of argument to the long-standing debate on the inherent tension between democratic politics and economic liberalism. His concept of learning liberalism addresses an important dimension of political failure that has been neglected in this debate. Viktor J. Vanberg, Universitaet Freiburg, Germany The purpose of this book is to reconsider economic liberalism from the viewpoint of political liberalism. The author argues that advocates of economic liberalism largely overlook empirical political preferences which, in many societies, go far beyond a limited role of the state. Recent difficulties of reforming the welfare state provide evidence that political preferences are at odds with liberal economic policy in numerous cases. This fact challenges a political conception which demands a limited state role but also claims that citizens preferences as they are should determine the content of policies. Using an evolutionary perspective on economic liberalism, the book develops new arguments about how economic liberalism can be brought into line with political liberalism. Drawing on an evolutionary theory of markets, Gerhard Wegner reinforces the claim that liberal economic policies are conducive to prosperity in society, but he argues that the liberal promise of prosperity does not translate into corresponding political preferences on the part of citizens. A tension between political and economic liberalism arises which lies at the centre of this book. Political Failure by Agreement will strongly appeal to postgraduate students and researchers of global governance, political theory, political economy and institutional economics.
Download or read book The New York Supplement written by and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 1056 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cases argued and determined in the Court of Appeals, Supreme and lower courts of record of New York State, with key number annotations." (varies)
Download or read book Educational Contract Theory and Governance written by Anne Hartwig-Eichelman and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
