Posts Tagged Reality
Reality Checks
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Teaching comprehension with informational texts is a critical component of any reading program and one that many children struggle with as they progress through their schooling. Nonfiction can be overwhelming to young readers, presenting them with complex vocabulary and a new density of information that may combine text, diagrams, pictures, captions, and other devices. In this book, Tony Stead provides wonderful ways to enhance children’s understanding and engagemen… More >>
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Rhetoric Versus Reality: What We Know and What We Need to Know About Vouchers and Charter Schools
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How can the education of our nation’s children be improved? Vouchers and charter schools aim to improve education by providing families with more choice in the schooling of their children and by decentralizing the provision of educational services. While supporters argue that school choice is essential to rescue children from failing schools, opponents claim that it may destroy America’s public education system. The authors undertake an exhaustive and critical view … More >>
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Results Now: How We Can Achieve Unprecedented Improvements in Teaching And Learning
- ISBN13: 9781416603580
- Condition: USED – VERY GOOD
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According to author Mike Schmoker, there is a yawning gap between the most well-known essential practices and the reality of most classrooms. This gap persists despite the hard, often heroic work done by many teachers and administrators. Schmoker believes that teachers and administrators may know what the best practices are, but they aren’t using them or reinforcing them consistently. He asserts that our schools are protected by a buffer—a protective barrier tha… More >>
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The Future of Higher Education : Rhetoric, Reality, and the Risks of the Market
- ISBN13: 9780787969721
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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A powerful look at the risks inherent in the trend toward making higher education a market rather than a regulated public sector, The Future of Higher Education reveals the findings of an extensive four-year investigation into the major forces that are transforming our American system of higher education. The book explores the challenges of intensified competition among institutions, globalization of colleges and universities, the expansion of the new for-profit and… More >>
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