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Leaving No Child Behind?: Options for Kids in Failing Schools
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | NCLB is the signal domestic policy initiative of the Bush administration and the most ambitious piece of federal education legislation in at least thirty-five years. Mandating a testing regime to force schools to continually improve student performance, it uses school choice and additional learning resources as sticks and carrots intended to improve low-performing schools and districts. The focus is on improving alternatives to children in low-performing schools. Here top experts evaluate...more
Leaving No Child Behind?: Options for Kids in Failing Schools
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | NCLB is the signal domestic policy initiative of the Bush administration and the most ambitious piece of federal education legislation in at least thirty-five years. Mandating a testing regime to force schools to continually improve student performance, it uses school choice and additional learning resources as sticks and carrots intended to improve low-performing schools and districts. The focus is on improving alternatives to children in low-performing schools. Here top experts evaluate...more
Depression Kids
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | Depression Kids is the story of the Depression and Dustbowl as seen through the eyes of children. Told with characteristic warmth and good humor, Alexander paints a brutal yet poignant picture of the events and circumstnces, aspirations and frustrations, triumphs and tragedies, and grinding poverty that shaped family life and values on the farmlands of midwestern America during the 1930s and '40s. The book is a powerful testament to the resiliency and determination of youth....more
Color and Money: How Rich White Kids Are Winning the War over College Affirmative Action
Customer Reviews — [1] Rating: 5 Date: 2008-06-30 Summary: Hypocrisy on High ... Slowly but surely, the disparity between high blown rhetoric and stone cold reality in admissions to marquee-name colleges and universities is being exposed. Peter Schmidt stands out in this regard in "Color and Money" by his ability to reveal the hypocrisy that permeates the rarefied atmosphere of higher education. Because affirmative action is by its very nature an emotional issue, Schmidt wisely takes great pains to lay out a clear paradigm in order to help readers distinguish between ideology and evidence. He makes ...more
[2] Rating: 4 Date: 2007-08-13 Summary: Makes it's point very well ... Despite the provocative title this book really hits home with objective facts and measurable effects, regardless of debates over motivations. It could have used more practical how-to guides for conscientious parents and students to counter this stuff. Overall however I loved it and so did my son. ...more
Editorial Reviews — ... Product Description | What is the real story behind the fight over affirmative action at colleges? Veteran journalist Peter Schmidt exposes truths that will outrage readers and forever transform the debate. He reveals how: * colleges use affirmative action to mask how much they cater to the country club crowd and to solicit support from the big corporations they steer minority students toward; * conservatives have used opposition to affirmative action to advance a broader agenda that includes gutting government...more
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