Showing results for "Class and Schools" in Politics & Social Sciences

In Teachers We Trust presents a compelling vision, offering practical ideas for educators and school leaders wishing to develop teacher-powered education systems. It reveals why teachers in Finland hold high status, and shows what the country's trust-based school system looks like in action. Pasi Sahlberg and Timothy D. Walker suggest seven key principles for building a culture of trust in schools, from offering clinical training for future teachers to encouraging student agency to fostering a collaborative professionalism among educators.

“Excellent.”—The Wall Street Journal Since its publication ten years ago, businesspeople, investors, doctors, parents, students, athletes, and musicians at every level have adopted the maxims of Talent Is Overrated to get better at what they’re passionate about. Now this classic has been...

In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America’s failure to educate its children and points the way to reversing that failure. Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battles, he also concludes with a surprising prescription for what it will take from both sides to put the American dream back in America’s schools.

Upper St. Clair High School Alumni Podcast. Find out what your old class mates have been up to,

The COVID-19 pandemic put a damper on large gatherings, especially for people in our age group. This virtual reunion gives us a chance to catch up with former classmates and document their stories as well.

Seniors in four L.A. classes entitled, "Women of Color Comparative Literature," at Roosevelt High School in Seattle reflect on the world around them as they near graduation. They discuss topics that they believe are important and relevant for us to consider. Each episode is the product of a hope that a conversation will be sparked and positive change will come about within our little community and the one at large.

A weekly conversation between the founders of Our Schools USA, covering the latest headlines and hot topics in public education.Hosted by Christina Gagnier, a former school board member, and Kristi Hirst, a former teacher and current public school parent.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER The urgent, revelatory story of how a school board win for the conservative right in one Texas suburb inspired a Christian nationalist campaign now threatening to undermine public education in America—from an NBC investigative reporter and co-creator of the Peabody...

Standards are the foundation of our educational systems today. Fairness, rigor, and high achievement for all students are the focus of standards-based schools. Yet the standards movement means nothing if it does not improve student achievement in the classroom. In this revised edition, Dr. Reeves provides step-by-step guidance on how to design and implement standards-based performance assessment to make improved teaching and learning a reality in the classroom.

In the first half of the 20th century, Dunbar was an academically elite public school, despite being racially segregated by law. By the 1950s, Dunbar High School was sending 80 percent of its students to college. Today, as with too many troubled urban public schools, the majority of Dunbar students struggle with reading and math. Journalist and author Alison Stewart, whose parents were both Dunbar graduates, tells the story of the school’s rise, fall, and path toward resurgence.

Can America's public schools, long resistant to change, meet the challenges of globalization and new educational alternatives? Not by doing what they're doing today. So argues Building Engaged Schools, a book that challenges the faulty assumptions that guide American public education.

This urgent exploration of why American society is in trouble—and how to fix it, starting with the places we call home—is an “essential and engaging read for everyone who wants to better understand the challenges facing our cities, towns and our nation.” (Richard Florida, author of The...

From the New York Times-bestselling author of Unintended Consequences comes another bold and contrarian book by the man who famously defended capitalism and the one percent at the height of the Occupy movement. Conventional wisdom says income inequality is rising and harmful to nearly...

Conversations with now 40 somethings from Class of 1995 at Sydney Girls High School, about what has happened in their lives over the past 27 years. There’s some fabulous stories, all about what makes a life from high school to the mid 40’s. I believe there is something unique about our micro-generation and I want to see if I can find out exactly what that is. We’re talking careers, relationships, marriages, illnesses, children, no children, IVF, PND, neurodiversity, gender identity, stories of events, struggles, challenges, lessons, wisdom.... Life is what happens whilst you’re busy ...

Feeling caught between being Gen Z and a Millennial? Welcome to Z-school —your weekly 35-minute-or-less Podcast designed for Zillennials, individuals bridging the gap between generations. Join digital storyteller & creator Ri Dollia @Thereelri and international traveling baseball player Troy Justice @justice_imported as they explore life lessons that school and our parents failed to teach us.Every Monday, tune in for engaging "classes" that inspire, educate, and challenge you. From entrepreneurial journeys & career tips to mental health & lifestyle advice, we cover the real-world topics that...

John Wilson (acclaimed arts and culture reporter and journalist, and presenter of Front Row, Newsnight Review and Pick of the Week) meets up with a variety of public figures from such diverse fields as food, mathematics, politics, writing and music, and takes them back to the influential schools, teachers and early workplaces they may have forgotten, but which have not forgotten them.