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Adolescent Literacy
A Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review

The Harvard Educational Review Special Issue on Adolescent Literacy examines key issues and debates in the adolescent literacy crisis in an effort to move toward consensus around future research agendas and best practices. Available March 2008.

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Resourceful Leadership
Tradeoffs and Tough Decisions on the Road to School Improvement

By Elizabeth A. City

In Resourceful Leadership, Elizabeth A. City examines decisions about the use of three key resources—time, money, and staff—and how tradeoffs among them are integrated into school leaders’ improvement strategies.

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Indigenous Knowledge and Education
Sites of Struggle, Strength, and Survivance

Edited by Malia Villegas, Sabina Rak Neugebauer, and Kerry R. Venegas

This book brings together essays that explore Indigenous ways of knowing and that consider how such knowledge can inform educational practices and institutions.

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When Research Matters
How Scholarship Influences Education Policy

Edited by Frederick M. Hess

When Research Matters considers the complex and crucially important relationship between education research and policy.

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Transforming Schools with Technology
How Smart Use of Digital Tools Helps Achieve Six Key Education Goals

By Andrew A. Zucker

In this timely and thoughtful book, Andrew Zucker argues that technology can and will play a central role in efforts to achieve crucial education goals, and that it will be an essential component of further improvement and transformation of schools.

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Toward Excellence with Equity
An Emerging Vision for Closing the Achievement Gap

By Ronald F. Ferguson

For the past 15 years, economist Ronald Ferguson has investigated the myriad factors that combine to create racial disparities in academic performance. This volume brings together Ferguson’s most important papers and most recent thinking on these issues. In language accessible and useful to education practitioners, Ferguson sets forth a wide-ranging and compelling vision for closing the achievement gap.

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Data Wise in Action
Stories of Schools Using Data to Improve Teaching and Learning

Edited by Kathryn Parker Boudett and Jennifer L. Steele

What does it look like when a school uses data wisely? Data Wise in Action, a new companion and sequel to our bestselling Data Wise, tells the stories of eight very different schools following the Data Wise process of using assessment results to improve teaching and learning.

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Managing School Districts for High Performance
Cases in Public Education Leadership

Edited by Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson

Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement.

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Spotlight on Leadership and School Change

Edited by Nancy Walser and Caroline Chauncey

Scratch the surface of a successful school and you will find a web of interactions that is the root of its success. Who is it that envisions, inspires, cajoles, and rallies all the various players in and around a school toward any improvement goal? Often it’s a superintendent, a principal, a professor, a special teacher, or a parent. In a word, it’s a leader. This latest volume in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight Series brings together 20 recent articles that highlight the ways leadership has made a difference in schools.

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Minding the Gap
Why Integrating High School with College Makes Sense and How to Do It

Edited by Nancy Hoffman, Joel Vargas, Andrea Venezia, and Marc S. Miller

Minding the Gap argues that in today’s highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees.

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