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The children left behind : America's struggle to improve its lowest performing schools / Daniel L. Duke.
Van Pelt Library LB2822.82 .D84 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duke, Daniel Linden, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School improvement programs--United States.
- School improvement programs.
- United States.
- Government aid to education--United States.
- Government aid to education.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 203 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2016]
- Summary:
- Between 2002 and 2016, the federal and state government, and school districts undertook unprecedented measures to improve the lowest-performing schools. This book draws on dozens of examples to illustrate the wide range of interventions adopted over this time period. Among the initiatives examined in depth are efforts by states to provide technical assistance to schools and districts, offer students educational choices, engage communities in school improvement, take over low-performing schools and districts, create special state-run school districts, and close failing schools. Also discussed are district-initiated measures, including programs to standardize instruction, innovative approaches to raising student achievement, and the restructuring of district operations. The Children Left Behind concludes with an assessment of 15 years of turnaround initiatives and recommendations based on lessons learned over this time period. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The evolving role of the federal government in helping the lowest-performing schools
- "If you can turn around Buffalo, you can turn around anything"
- State takeovers and the complexities of policy making for the lowest-performing school districts and schools
- An alternative form of state takeover: the special state district for low-performing schools
- Technical assistance and training
- Choice, community action, and closure
- One best way to leave no child behind
- Local innovation and options: a better prescription?
- Developing district capacity to support school turnarounds
- Reviewing an equivocal verdict
- Thinking about the path ahead.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Duke, Daniel Linden, author. Children left behind.
- ISBN:
- 9781475823592
- 1475823592
- 9781475823608
- 1475823606
- OCLC:
- 933437930
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