Teachers College Press: 606 books
Schooling Homeless Children
A Working Model for America's Public Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Quint has done a valuable service in describing one effort to make school a good place for kids who live on the dangerous margin of society.”—The Washington Post
The Early Advantage 1—Early Childhood Systems That Lead by Example
A Comparative Focus on International Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Learn how exemplary countries are dealing with the challenges and joys of advancing the development of their youngest citizens. In this book, Sharon Lynn Kagan and her contributors systematically examine how six diverse countries go about envisioning, designing, and implementing their services to...
Central Park East and Its Graduates
"Learning by Heart"
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In 1974, Central Park East Elementary School (CPE) in East Harlem opened its doors with a mission to provide inner-city children with the finest educators and pedagogy available. Instead of saying that the old neighborhood had to be torn down and students more rigidly tracked, the reformers dared...
"We Dare Say Love"
Supporting Achievement in the Educational Life of Black Boys
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“We Dare Say Love” takes up the critically important issue of what it means to educate Black male students in a large urban district. It chronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District, following a small group...