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A Nation Empowered, Volume 2 : Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Assouline, Susan G.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (287 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : Belin-Blank Center, College of Education, University of Iowa, 2015.
- Summary:
- This new report, A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students builds on the momentum of the 2004 report, A Nation Deceived: How Schools Hold Back America's Brightest Students. A Nation Deceived initiated a critical dialogue about academic acceleration, an under-used intervention. A Nation Deceived exposed to the nation the inconsistencies between research and practice and brought acceleration to prominence in the field.Volume 1 and 2 of A Nation Empowered: Evidence Trumps the Excuses Holding Back America's Brightest Students equips students, families, and educators with facts to refute biased excuses. A Nation Empowered shifts the impetus from conversation to action. Empowerement galvanizes determination with evidence. Volume 1 portrays the determination of students, educators, and parents to strive for excellence. Volume 2 reveals the evidence that trumps the excuses that hold bright students back.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 0-9961603-2-9
- OCLC:
- 1526859369
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