Random House New Releases - Education - Inclusive Education

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right by Joan T. Wynne

2010-10-13T00:30:00-05:00

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
Written by Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne

eBook | Beacon Press | Education - Inclusive Education; Education - Educational Policy & Reform | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-9546-1 (0-8070-9546-X)

In 2005, famed civil rights leader and education activist Robert Moses invited one hundred prominent African American and Latino intellectuals and activists to meet to discuss a proposal for a campaign to guarantee a quality education for all children as a constitutional right—a movement that would “transform current approaches to educational inequity, all of which have failed miserably to yield results for our children.” The response was passionate, and the meeting launched a movement.

This book—emerging directly from that effort—reports on what has happened since and calls for a new scale of organizing, legal initiatives, and public definitions of what a quality education is. Essays include

· Robert Moses’s historically rooted call for citizens, especially young people, to make the demand for quality education

· Ernesto Cortés’s view from decades of work organizing Latino communities in Texas

· Charles Payne’s interview with students from the Baltimore Algebra Project, who organized to make historic demands on their district

· Legal scholar Imani Perry’s nuanced analysis of the prospects of making a case for quality education as a right guaranteed by the Constitution

· Perspectives from scholars Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne, and by teachers Alicia Caroll and Kim Parker, who provide examples of what quality education is, describing its goal, and how to guide practice in the meantime

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right by Joan T. Wynne

2010-06-29T00:30:00-05:00

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
Written by Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne

Trade Paperback, 232 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Inclusive Education; Education - Educational Policy & Reform; Education - Administration | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-3282-4 (0-8070-3282-4)

Keeping School by Nancy Faust Sizer

2005-08-15T00:30:00-05:00

Keeping School Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools
Written by Deborah Meier and Nancy Faust Sizer
Edited by Theodore R. Sizer

Trade Paperback, 224 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Educational Policy & Reform; Education - Inclusive Education; Education - Experimental Methods | $15.00 | 978-0-8070-3265-7 (0-8070-3265-4)

Education reformers Deborah Meier, Theodore R. Sizer, and Nancy Faust Sizer have published books that have helped shape a movement. As school principals, all three have done another kind of writing as well: short essays in their own schools' newsletters to families.

Keeping School collects the best of these wonderfully readable gems of education writing-from an urban public elementary school and an exurban charter high school-along with new essays. Together, the letters form a portrait of what schools can look like when they are based on the authors' understandings of learning, community, authority, and standards.

High Schools on a Human Scale by Tom Toch

2003-05-15T00:30:00-05:00

High Schools on a Human Scale How Small Schools Can Transform American Education
Written by Tom Toch

Trade Paperback, 160 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Secondary; Education - Classroom Management; Education - Inclusive Education | $16.00 | 978-0-8070-3245-9 (0-8070-3245-X)

The basic blueprint of American high schools hasn't changed in a century, and we are paying a heavy price. Anonymous, enormous, and resistant to change, huge American high schools are incapable of educating all children to high levels today, as dropout rates and remedial courses in college make increasingly clear.

High Schools on a Human Scale shows the huge power of small schools, perhaps the nation's fastest- growing reform idea. Tom Toch takes us inside four very different small schools around the country-from an entrepreneur's high-tech charter school in San Diego to a school formed out the of the breakup of a huge public high school in Manhattan. All are small enough so that every student is known well by adults, and the results are remarkable. Together they show the proven virtues of small schools-safety, community, and high achievement.

This book is sponsored in part by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's $40 million effort to support small schools nationwide.

Waging Peace in Our Schools by Janet Patti

1998-07-01T00:30:00-05:00

Waging Peace in Our Schools
Written by Linda Lantieri and Janet Patti

Trade Paperback, 288 pages | Beacon Press | Education - Philosophy & Social Aspects; Education - Inclusive Education; Education - Reference | $18.00 | 978-0-8070-3117-9 (0-8070-3117-8)

From the largest and most successful school initiatives in social and emotional learning in the country-The Resolving Conflict Creatively Program, now active in more than 350 schools nationwide-comes a powerful, practical guide for teaching young people to empathize, mediate, negotiate, and create peace. The authors address everything from minor schoolyard conflicts to violent outbursts, and offer educators and parents proven strategies for enhancing children's emotional, social, and conflict resolution skills.

Random House New Releases - Education - Inclusive Education

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right by Joan T. Wynne

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public SchoolsWritten by Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right by Joan T. Wynne

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public SchoolsWritten by Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne

Keeping School by Nancy Faust Sizer

Keeping School Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small SchoolsWritten by Deborah Meier and Nancy Faust Sizer Edited by Theodore R. Sizer

High Schools on a Human Scale by Tom Toch

High Schools on a Human Scale How Small Schools Can Transform American EducationWritten by Tom Toch

Waging Peace in Our Schools by Janet Patti

Waging Peace in Our Schools Written by Linda Lantieri and Janet Patti

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
Written by Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne

Quality Education as a Constitutional Right Creating a Grassroots Movement to Transform Public Schools
Written by Theresa Perry, Robert P. Moses, Ernesto Cortes, Jr., Lisa Delpit and Joan T. Wynne

Keeping School Letters to Families from Principals of Two Small Schools
Written by Deborah Meier and Nancy Faust Sizer
Edited by Theodore R. Sizer

High Schools on a Human Scale How Small Schools Can Transform American Education
Written by Tom Toch

Waging Peace in Our Schools
Written by Linda Lantieri and Janet Patti