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Product Description: INSPIRING STORIES OF FOURTEEN VISIONARIES WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD—AND A BOLD CALL TO ACTION TO MOTIVATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS  There’s Amy Lehman, a gutsy single mother who is building a floating health clinic on Lake Tanganyika; Jimmie Briggs, a journalist campaigning to stop violence against girls and women; and Jacob Lief, a young American who founded a school for street children in South Africa...read more

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9780812984309 | Reprint edition (Random House Inc, January 15, 2013), cover price $15.00 | About this edition: INSPIRING STORIES OF FOURTEEN VISIONARIES WHO MADE A DIFFERENCE IN THE WORLD—AND A BOLD CALL TO ACTION TO MOTIVATE THE NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS  There’s Amy Lehman, a gutsy single mother who is building a floating health clinic on Lake Tanganyika; Jimmie Briggs, a journalist campaigning to stop violence against girls and women; and Jacob Lief, a young American who founded a school for street children in South Africa.

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Product Description: Charter schools are the most significant educational experiment in the last two decades. In Expect Miracles, Peter W. Cookson, Jr. and Kristina Berger focus on the current trend toward deregulation in public education. The issue of deregulation is of critical importance because the spirit of entrepreneurship that is behind deregulation is seldom examined from a sociological perspective...read more

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9780813366319 | Westview Pr, May 1, 2002, cover price $26.00

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9780813341569 | Westview Pr, July 31, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Charter schools are the most significant educational experiment in the last two decades.

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Offers advice to parents who have children entering the second grade on helping with their homework, and motivating them to learn, and offers an overview of what they should be learning throughout the year. (view table of contents)

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9781576853115 | Learning Express Llc, July 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers advice to parents who have children entering the second grade on helping with their homework, and motivating them to learn, and offers an overview of what they should be learning throughout the year.

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Offers advice to parents who have children in the first grade on how to help their children learn, develop socially, and work with the teacher. (view table of contents)

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9781576853108 | Learning Express Llc, July 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers advice to parents who have children in the first grade on how to help their children learn, develop socially, and work with the teacher.

Offers advice to parents who have children in the first grade on how to help their children learn, develop socially, and work with the teacher.

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9781576852101 | Learning Express Llc, March 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers advice to parents who have children in the first grade on how to help their children learn, develop socially, and work with the teacher.

Offers advice to parents who have children entering the second grade on helping with their homework, and motivating them to learn, and offers an overview of what they should be learning throughout the year.

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9781576852118 | Learning Express Llc, March 1, 2000, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Offers advice to parents who have children entering the second grade on helping with their homework, and motivating them to learn, and offers an overview of what they should be learning throughout the year.

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Featuring sample test questions and explanations, a unique guide answers parents concerns about national standardized tests, explaining how they affect their children's future, how to help their children do well, and what questions to ask teachers. Original.

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9781576851371 | 1 edition (Learning Express Llc, September 1, 1998), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Includes sample test questions and answers parent's concerns about standardized tests

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Product Description: Hardbound. This book brings together for the first time the most current research about the academic effects and policy implications of the school reform known as parental choice. The topic of choice in education is discussed in terms of why, when, where and how, if at all, it should be implemented...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter W. Cookson (editor) and Rina Shapira (editor)

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9780080427775 | Emerald Group Pub Ltd, September 1, 1997, cover price $121.99 | About this edition: Hardbound.

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Product Description: This book is organized into eight parts: systemic reform; sociology and educational policy; national content standards and assessments; opportunity-to-learn standards; school to work; school, parent, and community support; professional development; safe, disciplined, and drug free schools; and the implications of federal legislation...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Kathryn M. Borman (editor), Peter W. Cookson (editor), Alan R. Sadovnik (editor) and Joan Z. Spade (editor)

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9781567502664 | Praeger Pub Text, December 1, 1996, cover price $84.00 | About this edition: This book is organized into eight parts: systemic reform; sociology and educational policy; national content standards and assessments; opportunity-to-learn standards; school to work; school, parent, and community support; professional development; safe, disciplined, and drug free schools; and the implications of federal legislation.

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9781567502671 | Praeger Security Intl, December 1, 1996, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: This book is organized into eight parts: systemic reform; sociology and educational policy; national content standards and assessments; opportunity-to-learn standards; school to work; school, parent, and community support; professional development; safe, disciplined, and drug free schools; and the implications of federal legislation.

Product Description: Authorities in constitutional law, political theory, and public education policy, the authors of this volume analyze one of the most controversial debates currently facing Americans; the issue of school choice and the potential of vouchers as an alternative to the present public educational system...read more

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9781879383494 | Univ Pub Assoc, April 1, 1996, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Authorities in constitutional law, political theory, and public education policy, the authors of this volume analyze one of the most controversial debates currently facing Americans; the issue of school choice and the potential of vouchers as an alternative to the present public educational system.

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9781879383500 | Univ Pub Assoc, April 1, 1996, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: Authorities in constitutional law, political theory, and public education policy, the authors of this volume analyze one of the most controversial debates currently facing Americans; the issue of school choice and the potential of vouchers as an alternative to the present public educational system.

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Product Description: Few school reform movements have aroused more public passion than school choice. Should families have a voice in deciding which schools their children attend? Is it true that increased competition leads to better schools? How do the various school choice proposals differ? Are school choice policies logistically feasible and economically viable?In this book Peter Cookson, a noted educational sociologist, discusses the practice and politics of school choice objectively and comprehensively...read more

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9780300057911 | Yale Univ Pr, February 1, 1994, cover price $32.00 | About this edition: Discusses the origins of the school choice movement, looks at different plans in use around the country, and analyzes the ramifications of this policy

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9780300064995 | Revised edition (Yale Univ Pr, August 1, 1995), cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Few school reform movements have aroused more public passion than school choice.

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Product Description: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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9780815312574 | Routledge, February 1, 1995, cover price $225.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1995.

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9780815315339 | Routledge, February 1, 1995, cover price $69.95 | About this edition: First Published in 1995.

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9780060451356 | Harpercollins College Div, January 1, 1993, cover price $9.70

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Parents and teachers across America are taking sides on the `choice' controversy. With this plan, parents recieve tuition `vouchers' from local governments allowing them to send their children to the state or private school of their choice. The Choice Controversy addresses the critical questions in this hotly contested debate: what does choice mean in a democratic society? Will choice lead to higher student achievement and better schools? In addition, new data from experiments with choice plans in other countries are brought to the debate in the US.
By Peter W. Cookson (editor)

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9780803960299 | Corwin Pr, August 1, 1992, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Parents and teachers across America are taking sides on the `choice' controversy.

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9780803960305, titled "Choice Controversy" | Corwin Pr, September 1, 1992, cover price $23.95

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A behind-the-scenes look at prep school life offers an incisive analysis of the complex ways in which these elite schools prepare students for success and power (view table of contents)

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9780465062690 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, September 29, 1987), cover price $20.00 | About this edition: A behind-the-scenes look at prep school life offers an incisive analysis of the complex ways in which these elite schools prepare students for success and power

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