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Prevention is Primary: Strategies for Community Well-Being (2007)
WestEd's Bonnie Benard, leading expert on asset-based youth development and author of the bestselling Resiliency: What We Have Learned, contributes a key chapter, "The Hope of Prevention: Individual, Family, and Community Resilience," to this cutting-edge, comprehensive book on prevention. |
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Rethinking High School: Preparing Students for Success in College, Career, and Life (2007)
Find out how five successful Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation-funded high school programs are preparing adolescent students for academic success in college, career, and life. |
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Homeland Offense: The Next Wave of Reform Legislation (2007)
In this Policy Perspectives excerpt from Crash Course: Imagining a Better Future for Public Education, Edison Schools Founder and Chairman Chris Whittle proposes a dramatic new role for the federal government in our nation’s schools. |
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Reforms That Could Help Narrow the Achievement Gap (2006)
Richard Rothstein explains why addressing the wide income gap between lower- and middle-class parents could be one of education’s most important reform efforts. Rothstein highlights a number of other reforms in this new Policy Perspectives paper that could help narrow the academic achievement gap. |
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What We Must Do to Create a System That Prepares Students for College Success (2006)
What must be done to create a more aligned educational system that prepares students for college success? This Policy Perspectives paper tells you how. |
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Early Childhood Investment Yields Big Payoff (2005)
Robert G. Lynch makes a compelling case for a nationwide investment in a high-quality early childhood development program for children, especially for those living in poverty. |
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Tough Love for School Reform (2004)
Frederick M. Hess, Director of Education Policy Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, offers a common sense agenda that can help foster excellence in America’s public schools. |
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Censorship From the Right...Censorship From the Left (2004)
Diane Ravitch, former Assistant Secretary of Education, has tracked the U.S. textbook industry for years. In this excerpt from her new book, The Language Police: How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn, Ravitch documents the effect in schools of publishing censorship, self-censorship, and the books that survive. |
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The Future Federal Role: Observations and Ideas (2003)
This excerpt from Christopher T. Cross' new book, Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age, considers the federal role in K-12 public education in the coming half century.
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What You Can Do to Improve Your School (2003)
In an excerpt from the recently published Making Schools Work, William G. Ouchi, UCLA management professor and advisor to California Secretary for Education Richard Riordan, offers seven "rules of change" that will help revolutionize schools and school districts. |
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