Fixing Our Schools from the Bottom Up
Fixing Our Schools from the Bottom Up

Author: John R. Kasich

Publisher: DIANE Publishing

Published: 2001-04

Total Pages: 102

ISBN-13: 9780756708306

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Witnesses: Jeb Bush, Governor of the State of Florida; Richard W. Riley, Secretary, Department of Education; George V. Voinovich, U.S. Senator from the State of Ohio; Dwight Evans, a State Representative from the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Virginia Markell, President, National PTA; John T. Walton, Co-Chairman of the Children's Scholarship Fund; and Rose Blassingame and Vermont White, Washington Scholarship Fund.

Seeing Complexity in Public Education
Seeing Complexity in Public Education

Author: Donald Peurach

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2011-09-15

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0199837929

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This book examines the complexity of effective, large-scale, and sustainable education reform through a historical analysis of the Success for All Foundation, an organization that has collaborated with thousands of elementary schools across the US to enact a common design for comprehensive school reform, all in the effort to improve the reading achievement of millions of students. The purpose of the book is to develop an analytic framework to assist education reformers in seeing and confronting complexity in their own improvement efforts.

Bilingual Education
Bilingual Education

Author: Rosa Castro Feinberg

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA

Published: 2002-03-01

Total Pages: 366

ISBN-13: 1576075370

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Focuses on the purposes of bilingual education programs in schools and their historical development from the 1960s to the present. In this timely resource, educator Rosa Castro Feinberg surveys the developing field of bilingual education—its history, its theories, its practices, and the conflicts that swirl around it. She begins with an annotated chronology that describes influential people and events and traces themes in bilingual education from precolonial times to the present. In three detailed chapters, Feinberg summarizes the widely varied state and local policies and bilingual programs across the country, and demonstrates the profound impact of federal legislation, policies, and court decisions. She also examines the political challenge to linguistic diversity by anti-immigration groups and the common myths about bilingual education that have grown out of the media's handling of identity politics.

Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader
Framing the Rhetoric of a Leader

Author: M. Degani

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-01-04

Total Pages: 195

ISBN-13: 113747159X

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Based on a selection of 30 election campaign speeches during Obama's first run for the American presidency in 2008, this book investigates the Democratic presidential candidate's much celebrated rhetoric from a cognitive semantics point of view.

Can Philanthropy Fix Our Schools?
Can Philanthropy Fix Our Schools?

Author: Raymond J. Domanico

Publisher:

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 72

ISBN-13:

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The best-known model for large-scale private giving to foster educ. reform is Walter Annenberg's $500 million gift to U.S. public educ. in Dec. 1993, mainly to fund challenge grants in the nation's 9 largest cities. These programs ended with the school year, 1999-2000. Believing that the experiences of those cities could provide valuable lessons for future attempts at school reform driven by private giving, this report studies 3 cities experiences with the Challenge: NY City, Chicago, and Philadelphia. It concludes that Annenberg didn't accomplish what he had hoped -- the system was largely unresponsive.