Author: Gene Bottoms
Publisher: ASCD
Published: 2022-04-11
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 1416630880
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →How do some high schools produce graduates that consistently achieve at high levels? Would you believe there's a set of proven strategies that could help you deliver similar impressive results and better prepare students for the world after high school? High schools in the United States face a startling reality: many graduates are unprepared for success in postsecondary studies or for high-demand, well-paying jobs in a rapidly changing economy. Although this situation is alarming, the high schools that have embraced new ways of learning show us what is possible. Drawing from his experience with the High Schools That Work initiative, Gene Bottoms offers educators a path forward by urging them to pursue bold goals and outlining bold actions for achieving those goals. His vision is clear: replace the traditional model of secondary education with one that engages students in a rigorous curriculum that combines a solid academic core with intellectually demanding career pathway courses. The notion that nearly all students can achieve at high levels is borne out by numerous examples of high schools—including those with traditionally underperforming student populations—that have used key strategies to help all students realize their potential. Bottoms explains the root causes of the current shortcomings in high school education and then specifies critical components of successful transformation: * Shared leadership; * Powerful assignments—especially in math, literacy, and career/technical education—planned and executed by academic and career pathway teachers working together; * Strengthened connections between middle school and high school; * A redesigned senior year; and * Comprehensive counseling and advisory programs. Provocative and persuasive in its sense of urgency, Tomorrow's High School offers proven and practical solutions to finally make high schools a rich and rewarding experience for all students, whatever their future college and career goals may be. This book is a copublication of ASCD and SREB. It includes access to nine downloadable appendixes.
Author: Regional Commission on Interrelationships of Secondary Schools, Colleges, and Professional Schools
Publisher:
Published: 1959
Total Pages: 66
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Albert N. Whiting
Publisher: American Association of State Colleges & Universities Press
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 88
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This book chronicles African American higher education as viewed by 20 presidents and presidents emeriti from several historically black colleges (HBCs). Interview excerpts are used to illustrate how HBCs outside the established, accepted educational structure have been inadequately financed and staffed, have been without satisfactory resources, but have, nevertheless, been nurtured, sustained, and enlivened by an irrepressible passion for education. The book provides a brief history of HBCs; discusses the characteristics commonly found in HBCs; and examines the mission, spirit, and promise that have been the cornerstone of HBCs' educational efforts, namely, to provide, encourage, and accelerate higher education for African Americans, while incubating and preserving black creativity and scholarship. Additionally examined is the question of the present condition of HBCs and their future in light of the national goal for total integration and the extent to which it has been achieved. Finally, a brief discussion is presented concerning the fact that non-African Americans are now attending the HBCs in increasing numbers and what this says about accommodating diversity in higher education within the United States. (GLR)
Author: Susan F. Semel
Publisher: History of Schools and Schooling
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781433112669
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The second edition of «Schools of Tomorrow, » Schools of Today: Progressive Education in the 21st Century documents a new collection of child-centered progressive schools founded in the first half of the twentieth century and provides histories of some contemporary examples of progressive practices. Part I discusses six progressive schools founded in the first part of the twentieth century (City and Country; Dalton; the Weekday School at Riverside Church; The Laboratory School at the Institute of Child Study; Alabama State Teachers College Laboratory High School; and Highlander), tracing them from their beginnings. Part II examines four more contemporary schools (Central Park East 1; Central Park East Secondary; Learning Community Charter School; and KIPP TEAM Academy), showing how progressive practices gained momentum from the 1960s onward. As a volume in the History of Schools and Schooling series, this book seeks to look to the past for what it can teach us today.
Author: Richard Gerver
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-04-08
Total Pages: 178
ISBN-13: 1855393948
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Drawing on the incredible story of Grange Primary School, Gerver argues that our education system no longer works for today's generation of learners.
Author: Laura W. Perna
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 346
ISBN-13: 0812244532
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Written by researchers in education and urban policy, this volume offers useful insights into how to provide urban workers with the educational qualifications they need for real world jobs.
Author: Bryan Alexander
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2020-01-14
Total Pages: 360
ISBN-13: 1421436426
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →An unusually multifaceted approach to American higher education that views institutions as complex organisms, Academia Next offers a fresh perspective on the emerging colleges and universities of today and tomorrow.
Author: F. Stahl
Publisher:
Published: 1988-03-01
Total Pages:
ISBN-13: 9780871171733
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