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Against the Odds
Insights from One District's Small School Reform
Larry Cuban, Gary Lichtenstein, Arthur Evenchik, Martin Tombari, and Kristen Pozzoboni
Against the Odds offers an in-depth look at the Mapleton, Colorado, school district’s transformation of two traditional high schools into seven small schools, each enrolling fewer than four hundred students.
Transforming Public Education
Cases in Education Entrepreneurship
Edited by Stacey M. Childress
Transforming Public Education features nineteen cases that profile entrepreneurs who are pursuing opportunities to create pattern-breaking social change in our public schools.
Teaching Talent
A Visionary Framework for Human Capital in Education
Edited by Rachel E. Curtis and Judy Wurtzel, foreword by Michael F. Bennet, Senator from Colorado
Teaching Talent presents a framework for human capital development that draws on a two-year initiative by the Aspen Institute Education and Society Program to research sectors that have effective, well-developed human capital systems and point the way toward human capital innovations in public education.
AP
A Critical Examination of the Advanced Placement Program
Edited by Philip M. Sadler, Gerhard Sonnert, Robert H. Tai, and Kristin Klopfenstein
AP draws together the most recent and rigorous research on the strengths and weaknesses of the Advanced Placement program. Available April 2010.
Bringing School Reform to Scale
Five Award-Winning Urban Districts
Heather Zavadsky, foreword by Thomas Payzant
Bringing School Reform to Scale looks in detail at five school districts that have been honored in recent years by The Broad Foundation, whose annual award is granted “each year to the urban school districts that demonstrate the greatest overall performance and improvement in student achievement while reducing achievement gaps among poor and minority students.”
New Teacher Mentoring
Hopes and Promise for Improving Teacher Effectiveness
Ellen Moir, Dara Barlin, Janet Gless, and Jan Miles
In this practical yet visionary book, Ellen Moir and her colleagues at the New Teacher Center review what current research suggests (and doesn’t) about the power of welldesigned mentoring programs to shape teacher and student outcomes.
The Essential School Board Book
Better Governance in the Age of Accountability
Nancy Walser, foreword by Richard F. Elmore
The Essential School Board Book highlights effective practices that are common to high-functioning boards around the country—boards that are working successfully with their superintendents and communities to improve teaching and learning.
Notable Education Book of 2009, American School Board Journal
A Policy Reader in Universal Design for Learning
Edited by David T. Gordon, Jenna W. Gravel, and Laura A. Schifter
This policy reader comprises a notably wide range of articles that address the challenges and opportunities facing policy makers as they consider UDL’s implications for federal, state, and local policy.
Education and the Obama Presidency
A Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review
This special issue of the Harvard Educational Review considers the challenges and opportunities facing President Barack Obama in his efforts to reform educational policy and practice in the United States.
Leading for Equity
The Pursuit of Excellence in the Montgomery County Public Schools
Stacey M. Childress, Denis P. Doyle, and David A. Thomas, with a foreword by David Gergen
Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformation—in less than a decade—into a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement.