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Author: M. Rebecca Kilburn
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Published: 2021
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781977407764
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors provide information on the implementation and outcomes of the four-day school week using quantitative and qualitative data from a variety of sources, including surveys of parents and students in 36 districts in three states.
Author: Paul Hill
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2009-02-15
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 0226336530
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA heated debate is raging over our nation’s public schools and how they should be reformed, with proposals ranging from imposing national standards to replacing public education altogether with a voucher system for private schools. Combining decades of experience in education, the authors propose an innovative approach to solving the problems of our school system and find a middle ground between these extremes. Reinventing Public Education shows how contracting would radically change the way we operate our schools, while keeping them public and accessible to all, and making them better able to meet standards of achievement and equity. Using public funds, local school boards would select private providers to operate individual schools under formal contracts specifying the type and quality of instruction. In a hands-on, concrete fashion, the authors provide a thorough explanation of the pros and cons of school contracting and how it would work in practice. They show how contracting would free local school boards from operating schools so they can focus on improving educational policy; how it would allow parents to choose the best school for their children; and, finally, how it would ensure that schools are held accountable and academic standards are met. While retaining a strong public role in education, contracting enables schools to be more imaginative, adaptable, and suited to the needs of children and families. In presenting an alternative vision for America’s schools, Reinventing Public Education is too important to be ignored.
Author: Laura Lippman
Publisher: Department of Education Office of Educational
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 236
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIlluminates the condition of education in urban schools compared to schools in other locations. Also explores differences between students from urban schools and students in other locations on a broad spectrum of student and school characteristics. Contents: education outcomes (student achievement, educational attainment, economic outcomes); student background characteristics and afterschool activities; school experiences (school resources and staff, school programs and coursetaking, student behavior). Bibliography. Over 100 charts and tables.
Author: United States. National Education Commission on Time and Learning
Publisher: Commission
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Donald Kordosky
Publisher: Dog Ear Publishing
Published: 2011-06-01
Total Pages: 104
ISBN-13: 9781457504228
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book, "The Four-day School Week: Less IS More!" describes the positive and negative consequences of the four-day school week, and explores the implementation process in detail.
Author: Andrew Barnes
Publisher: Hachette UK
Published: 2020-01-07
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0349424896
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSHORTLISTED FOR THE BUSINESS BOOK AWARDS 2021 In The 4 Day Week, entrepreneur and business innovator Andrew Barnes makes the case for the four-day work week as the answer to many of the ills of the 21st-century global economy. Barnes conducted an experiment in his own business, the New Zealand trust company Perpetual Guardian, and asked his staff to design a four-day week that would permit them to meet their existing productivity requirements on the same salary but with a 20% cut in work hours. The outcomes of this trial, which no business leader had previously attempted on these terms, were stunning. People were happier and healthier, more engaged in their personal lives, and more focused and productive in the office. The world of work has seen a dramatic shift in recent times: the former security and benefits associated with permanent employment are being displaced by the less stable gig economy. Barnes explains the dangers of a focus on flexibility at the expense of hard-won worker protections, and argues that with the four-day week, we can have the best of all worlds: optimal productivity, work-life balance, worker benefits and, at long last, a solution to pervasive economic inequities such as the gender pay gap and lack of diversity in business and governance. The 4 Day Week is a practical, how-to guide for business leaders and employees alike that is applicable to nearly every industry. Using qualitative and quantitative data from research gathered through the Perpetual Guardian trial and other sources by the University of Auckland and Auckland University of Technology, the book presents a step-by-step approach to preparing businesses for productivity-focused flexibility, from the necessary cultural conditions to the often complex legislative considerations. The story of Perpetual Guardian's unprecedented work experiment has made headlines around the world and stormed social media, reaching a global audience in more than seventy countries. A mix of trenchant analysis, personal observation and actionable advice, The 4 Day Week is an essential guide for leaders and workers seeking to make a change for the better in their work world.
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. General Subcommittee on Education
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Published: 1972
Total Pages: 436
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Publisher: iUniverse
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Total Pages: 154
ISBN-13: 0595185088
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Ronald Holmes
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2012-04-05
Total Pages: 153
ISBN-13: 1468553631
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThrough extensive research and best practices of various schools nationwide, this book provides educators with solutions to the problems in our public schools. These solutions include articles on some of the latest federal programs afforded to state education agencies to address challenges plaguing public schools such as the No Child Left Behind Act. The book can be very helpful to school stakeholders such as parents, teachers, principals and district administrators since the topics focus on the K-12 environments. With a plethora of references to support numerous suggestions, discrepancies and issues, this book can be useful to graduate students, professors, researchers, university administrators and education state agencies. In a proposal format, this book also provides a roadmap for successful and struggling schools in the U.S. with objectives, goals, strategies and performance measures.
Author: Steven Lynn
Publisher: Univ of South Carolina Press
Published: 2015-03-27
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13: 1611175208
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"How should we improve the state of South Carolina?" That invitingly open-ended question served as the basis for the first annual South Carolina High School Writing Contest as the call went out in fall 2013 to juniors and seniors across the Palmetto State, encouraging them to take a stance through good, thought-provoking writing. The nearly five hundred responses that resulted were as impressive in quality as they were in quantity. Young writers sounded off on issues of race relations, environmental conservation, economic imbalance, opportunities of infrastructure, substance and physical abuse, and the maladies of education. Most wrote on issues of education rooted in their own burgeoning awareness of its gifts and limitations in their lives. From that pool of contestants, twenty-three finalists rose to the top to have their initial entries and subsequent writing on a favorite book or place judged by best-selling author Pat Conroy. The insightful and often revelatory responses from those finalists—including the first, second, and third place winners by grade—are collected here in Writing South Carolina. In heartfelt essays, poems, short stories, and drama, these diverse writers lay bare their attitudes and impressions of South Carolina as they have experienced it and as they hope to reshape it. The resulting anthology is a compelling portrait of the Palmetto State's potential as advocated by some of its best and brightest young writers. Editor Steven Lynn provides an introduction and contest judge Pat Conroy provides a foreword to the collection. Senior Winners / Walter B. Edgar Award • First Place: Rowan Miller, Aiken, Aiken High School, "Different Worlds" (essay) • Second Place: Katherine Frain, Mount Pleasant, Wando High School, "Place of Refuge" (poem) • Third Place: Allison Able, Saluda, Saluda High School, "Song of Silence" (essay) • Honorable Mention: Drake Shadwell, Dalzell, Wilson Hall, Untitled (play) • Honorable Mention: Jordhane Stanley, Seabrook Island, South Carolina Virtual School, Untitled (essay) Junior Winners / Dorothy S. Williams Award • First Place: Hallie Chametzky, Columbia, Dreher High School, "Change in Simple Arithmetic" (poem) • Second Place: Zoe Abedon, Sullivan's Island, Charleston County School of the Arts, "To Overcome" (poem) • Third Place: Madison Seabrook, Charleston County School of the Arts, "A Novel Prospect" (poem) • Honorable Mention: Suzanne Jackson, Charleston, Charleston County School of the Arts, "Local since Forever" (essay) • Honorable Mention: Rebecca Walker, Spartanburg, Dorman High School, Untitled (essay)
