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000467434 1001_ $$aKirp, David L.
000467434 24510 $$aImprobable scholars :$$bthe rebirth of a great American school system and a strategy for America's schools /$$cDavid L. Kirp.
000467434 264_1 $$aNew York :$$bOxford University Press,$$c[2013]
000467434 300__ $$aviii, 262 pages ;$$c25 cm
000467434 336__ $$atext$$2rdacontent
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000467434 338__ $$avolume$$2rdacarrier
000467434 500__ $$aIncludes index.
000467434 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000467434 5050_ $$aIntroduction: High Stakes -- The Pie: Room 210, George Washington Elementary School -- New Kids on the Block: George Washington Elementary School -- Gruntwork: The Endless Business of Building a Great School System -- The Magic Kingdom: Preschool for All -- Mother Teresa meets Mayor Daley: Good Schools = Smart Politics -- Can These Eagles Soar?: Union City High School -- Where Fun Comes to Die (And Be Reborn): George Washington Elementary School-Reprise -- The Odyssey Continues: Union City School System, One Year Later -- What Union City Can Teach America: Nationwide, Slow and Steady Wins the Race.
000467434 520__ $$a"No school district can be all charismatic leaders and super-teachers. It can't start from scratch, and it can't fire all its teachers and principals when students do poorly. Great charter schools can only serve a tiny minority of students. Whether we like it or not, most of our youngsters will continue to be educated in mainstream public schools. The good news, as David L. Kirp reveals in Improbable Scholars, is that there's a sensible way to rebuild public education and close the achievement gap for all students. Indeed, this is precisely what's happening in a most unlikely place: Union City, New Jersey, a poor, crowded Latino community just across the Hudson from Manhattan. The school district--once one of the worst in the state--has ignored trendy reforms in favor of proven game-changers like quality early education, a word-soaked curriculum, and hands-on help for teachers. When beneficial new strategies have emerged, like using sophisticated data-crunching to generate pinpoint assessments to help individual students, they have been folded into the mix. The results demand that we take notice--from third grade through high school, Union City scores on the high-stakes state tests approximate the statewide average. In other words, these inner-city kids are achieving just as much as their suburban cousins in reading, writing, and math. What's even more impressive, nearly ninety percent of high school students are earning their diplomas and sixty percent of them are going to college. Top students are winning national science awards and full rides at Ivy League universities. These schools are not just good places for poor kids. They are good places for kids, period. Improbable Scholars offers a playbook--not a prayer book--for reform that will dramatically change our approach to reviving public education"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000467434 520__ $$a"In Improbable Scholars, David L. Kirp challenges the conventional wisdom about public schools and education reform in America through an in-depth look at Union City, New Jersey's high-performing urban school district. In this compelling study, Kirp reveals Union's city's revolutionary secret: running an exemplary school system doesn't demand heroics, just hard and steady work"--$$cProvided by publisher.
000467434 650_0 $$aSchool improvement programs$$zNew Jersey$$zUnion City$$vCase studies.
000467434 650_0 $$aHispanic American children$$xEducation$$zNew Jersey$$zUnion City$$vCase studies.
000467434 650_0 $$aEducational equalization$$zNew Jersey$$zUnion City$$vCase studies.
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