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Improving America's Schools Together
"A ground-breaking, practical resource for the burgeoning practice of continuous improvement in educational schools and districts nationwide"--
Improving Teacher Preparation and Credentialing Consistent with the National Science Education Standards
In February, 1996, representatives of departments of education and major teacher education colleges in 39 states, the District of Columbia, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the U.S. Department of Defense met at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. to identify and discuss issues surrounding the preparation and credentialing of science teachers. Central to this symposium were the criteria identified by the National Science Education Standards for effective science teaching and effective professional development for science teachers. This synopsis is intended to encourage reflection by participants and their colleagues at the state level on the issues identified, reactions to those ...
Teacher Preparation Initiatives
This hearing focused on the subject of teacher recruitment and preparation. The hearing began with opening statements by several Congressmen (the Honorable Frank Riggs, Matthew Martinez, William Gooding, George Miller, and Robert Scott). Following the opening statements were statements by the Honorable Eugene Hickock, Secretary of Education, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania; Mr. E.D. Hirsh, Jr., President, Core Knowledge Foundation, Charlottesville, VA; Dr. Eric Hanushek, Director, W. Allen Wallis Institute of Political Economy, University of Rochester, NY; Dr. Richard Ingersoll, Professor of Sociology, University of Georgia, Athens; Ms. C. Emily Feistritzer, President, National Center for Educa...
Building a Profession
Report of the K-16 Teacher Educ. Task Force, American Federation of Teachers. The task force calls for an urgent national commitment to bring higher quality, greater resources and more coherence to the way higher educ. screens and prepares teacher educ. candidates. Sections: teacher educ.; liberal arts and sciences requirements; teacher educ. entry requirements; the educ. curriculum; the arts and sciences major; clinical experience: pre-service student teaching; exiting teacher educ. and entering the profession; induction programs for beginning teachers; recommendations; and roles and responsibilities. Bibliography. Appendix A: alternative certification.
Striving Together
Chronicles the development of a framework for collective impact in education through the perspectives of its founders and lessons learned from pioneering sites. In 2006, Cincinnati and Northern Kentucky had been suffering from many of the same challenges facing metro regions across the country. Despite significant investments in education from the public and private sectors, outcomes were alarming: Kindergarten readiness was below fifty percent, and nearly half of the students in the Cincinnati Public Schools were dropping out before high school graduation. Fortunately, a diverse group of community leaders across sectors was exploring a transformative approach to improving education as a sys...
Five Minutes a Day Dream-Action Path
Packed with mind tools, inspirational aids, and more than 60 actions that can be taken immediately to transform one's life and make a difference, this soul-stirring guide explains how to dream the desired life and world and then create it.
A Century of Philanthropy
Since virtually all aspects of Hawai'i's cultural, educational, and social life have been affected by the foundation's century of grantmaking activity, the contents of A Century of Philanthropy will be of interest to students of Hawai'i, as well as to students of America's philanthropic history. The author holds that philanthropic decisions are shaped in part by changing social and economic circumstances, and that charitable foundations can and do play a unique and innovative role in society. This approach affords insight into America's singular "culture of philanthropy." The foundation's earliest grants in the 1890s featured educational innovation; in the 1910s and 1920s its grants favored ...
Counselor Preparation
First Published in 2008. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
