Standing and Delivering

Henry Gradillas, Jerry Jesness

• Paperback | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• In this book, Dr. Gradillas shares both his upbeat philosophy of education and the practical school management techniques that helped translate that p... Lees meer

The Buying and Selling of American Education

Susan Tave Zelman, Margaret Erlandson Sorensen

• Hardcover | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• American educators and policy makers have grown increasingly frustrated in recent decades as attempts to enhance equity and bring American student lea... Lees meer

Trendsetting Charter Schools

• Hardcover | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• This book presents six different charter schools that explicitly embrace a compelling civic mission and that foster an excellent academic environment. Lees meer

Blueprint for School System Transformation

Frederick Hess, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

• Hardcover | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• Despite widespread recognition that school systems need to do profoundly better, those seeking improvement have been persistently frustrated by the me... Lees meer

Breaking the Cycle

Nancy Brown Diggs

• Hardcover | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• America's failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak picture--and it is-... Lees meer

From Family Collapse to America's Decline

Mitch Pearlstein

• Hardcover | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forev... Lees meer

From Family Collapse to America's Decline

Mitch Pearlstein

• Paperback | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• From Family Collapse to America's Decline looks at the effect of family fragmentation on education, and in turn the American economy. Lees meer

Blueprint for School System Transformation

Frederick Hess, Carolyn Sattin-Bajaj

• Paperback | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• In this volume, a team of national experts address the major elements key to system redesign and long-lasting reform, describing in detail the steps n... Lees meer

The Buying and Selling of American Education

Susan Tave Zelman, Margaret Erlandson Sorensen

• Paperback | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• American educators and policy makers have grown increasingly frustrated in recent decades as attempts to enhance equity and bring American student lea... Lees meer

The Urban School System of the Future

Andy Smarick

• Paperback | Engels | New Frontiers in Education
• For more than two generations, the traditional urban school system--the district--has utterly failed to do its job: prepare its students for a lifetim... Lees meer