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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Key Elements of Observing Practice
A Data Wise DVD and Facilitator’s Guide

Kathryn Parker Boudett, Elizabeth A. City, and Marcia K. Russell

Based on Data Wise and Data Wise in Action, Key Elements of Observing Practice offers insight into one of the most challenging steps in capturing data about school performance: observing and analyzing instructional practice.

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Smart Money
Using Educational Resources to Accomplish Ambitious Learning Goals

Edited by Jacob E. Adams, Jr.

Smart Money brings together research on education finance policy and on the uses of school and district resources, thus providing a uniquely comprehensive analysis of school finance systems.

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Community Organizing for Stronger Schools
Strategies and Successes

By Kavitha Mediratta, Seema Shah, and Sara McAlister

Drawing on a six-year national study, Community Organizing for Stronger Schools offers a richly textured analysis of community organizing for school reform. The authors examine the role of organizing in building social and political capital and improving educational outcomes for students in some of the nation’s most challenged school districts.

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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

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A Grand Bargain for Education Reform
New Rewards and Supports for New Accountability

Edited by Theodore Hershberg and Claire Robertson-Kraft, foreword by Christopher T. Cross

This book offers an ambitious new system for evaluating, compensating, and providing professional development for school teachers and administrators. In this realigned system, new forms of accountability are introduced, but they go hand in hand with new rewards and access to enhanced forms of professional development to help educators succeed in their instructional tasks.

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The Role of Research in Educational Improvement

Edited by John D. Bransford, Deborah J. Stipek, Nancy J. Vye, Louis M. Gomez, and Diana Lam

In this book, leading scholars in the field examine the available research on the use of evidence in education and provide suggestions for strengthening the research-to-practice pipeline.

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