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In Those Kids, Our Schools, Shayla Reese Griffin examines patterns of racial interaction in a large, integrated high school and makes a powerful case for the frank conversations that educators could and should be having about race in schools. Over three years, Griffin observed students, teachers, and administrators in a “post-racial” exurban high school in the Midwest. In its hallways, classrooms, lunchrooms, and staff meetings, she uncovered the disturbing ways in which racial tensions and prejudices persist and are reinforced. Students engaged in patterns of behavior that underscored racial hierarchies. Teachers—no matter how intellectually committed to equity and diversity—often lacked the skills, resources, or authority to address racial issues, while administrators failed to acknowledge racial tensions or recognize how school practices and policies perpetuated racial inequality. This astute and thoughtful book offers a revealing glimpse into the world of young people struggling with the legacy of racism. More important, it highlights the disservice being done to all students in our schools when educators fail to critically interrogate issues of race. Griffin’s perceptive analysis illuminates the persistent influence of race in our education system and shows how—with appropriate support—teachers and students can develop the capacity to address racial issues and dynamics in schools in a frank and constructive way.

Examines the quality of public education

In this “lively, provocative and well-researched book” (Theodore Sizer), Alfie Kohn builds a powerful argument against the “back to basics” philosophy of teaching and simplistic demands to “raise the bar.” Drawing on stories from real classrooms and extensive research, Kohn shows parents, educators, and others interested in the debate how schools can help students explore ideas rather than filling them with forgettable facts and preparing them for standardized tests. Here at last is a book that challenges the two dominant forces in American education: an aggressive nostalgia for traditional teaching (“If it was bad enough for me, it’s bad enough for my kids”) and a heavy-handed push for Tougher Standards.

Our public education system is under attack. University professors say it doesnt have high enough standards, economists blame it for dragging down the American economy, politicians say it is not giving children the education that the American people demand, religious leaders say it refuses to allow God in schools, the news media portrays it as an overall failureand one journalist even complains that public school teachers are fat! To all of this Dennis Fermoyle, says, Balderdash! Fermoyle, the author of "In The Trenches: A Teachers Defense of Public Education," is a thirty-one year veteran of public school classrooms. His views are based on real experience and they contain the much needed common sense that education critics and reformers often lack. While he acknowledges the problems public schools face, he makes it clear that the suggested reforms of both liberals and conservatives miss the mark. Fermoyles battle plan for improving public schools includes assigning to students the responsibility for their own effort and behavior, giving teachers the power to remove students who are harming the education of their classmates, and giving principals the power to keep their best teachers. "In The Trenches" profiles some of the many public schools and public school teachers who quietly and consistently produce students who do well and go on to success in college and their careers. Despite their performances, the conventional wisdom is that American public schools are failing, and the danger is that this could become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Fermoyles passionate and practical defense of public education tells how we can keep that from happening while making our public schools the best they can be.

A powerful, positive guide to infusing assets into any school community.

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This book discusses a theory called "success emulation," formulated several years ago by James Lewis, Jr. The essence of this theory is that a person or an organization can attain a high degree of success or excellence by studying the products, programs, principles, and practices of successful organizations and then adopting those that are appropriate in the new situation, with or without modifications. Lewis presents 12 important lessons which will show school districts how to achieve excellence by adopting those principles and practices that have worked for the best-run companies in America. ISBN 0-915253-03-8: $18.95.

Explains ways in which we can educate children's hearts and minds, and create "peaceable classrooms" where children receive a conflict-free education

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