Author: Kathy PickelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian River County (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Changes, Indian River County History for Elementary School Students
Author: Kathy PickelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian River County (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Teacher's Guide to Changes, Indian River County History for Elementary School Students
Author: Kathy PickelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indian River County (Fla.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
The Florida Historical Quarterly
Author: Resources in Education
Author: Learning in the Fast Lane
Author: Chester E. Finn, Jr.Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691216916
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
"More than three million high-school students take five million Advanced Placement exams each May, yet remarkably little is known about how this sixty-year-old, privately-run program, has become one of U.S. education's greatest successes. From its mid-century origin as a tiny option for privileged kids from posh schools, AP has also emerged as a booster rocket into college for hundreds of thousands of disadvantaged youngsters. It challenges smart kids, affects school ratings, affords rewarding classroom challenges to great teachers, tunes up entire schools, and draws vast support from philanthropists, education reformers and policymakers. AP stands as America's foremost source of college-level academics for high school pupils. Praised for its rigor and integrity, more than 22,000 schools now offer some-or many-of its thirty-eight subjects, from Latin to calculus, art to computer science. But challenges abound today, as AP faces stiffening competition (especially dual credit), curriculum wars, charges of elitism, misgivings by elite schools and universities, and the arduous work of infusing rigor into schools that lack it and academic success into young people unaccustomed to it. In today's polarized climate, can Advanced Placement maintain its lofty standards and overcome the hostility, politics and despair that have sunk so many other bold education ventures? Advanced Placement: The Unsung Success Story of American Education is a unique account-richly documented and thoroughly readable-of the AP program in all its strengths and travails, written by two of America's most respected education analysts"--
Disintegration
Author: Eugene RobinsonPublisher: Anchor
ISBN: 0767929969
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
The African American population in the United States has always been seen as a single entity: a “Black America” with unified interests and needs. In his groundbreaking book, Disintegration, Pulitzer-Prize winning columnist Eugene Robinson argues that over decades of desegregation, affirmative action, and immigration, the concept of Black America has shattered. Instead of one black America, now there are four: • a Mainstream middle-class majority with a full ownership stake in American society; • a large, Abandoned minority with less hope of escaping poverty and dysfunction than at any time since Reconstruction’s crushing end; • a small Transcendent elite with such enormous wealth, power, and influence that even white folks have to genuflect; • and two newly Emergent groups—individuals of mixed-race heritage and communities of recent black immigrants—that make us wonder what “black” is even supposed to mean.
Research in Education
Author: Intrigue of the Past
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 190
Book Description
Humanities
Author: African American Sites in Florida
Author: Kevin M McCarthyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1561649511
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 345
Book Description
African Americans have risen from the slave plantations of nineteenth-century Florida to become the heads of corporations and members of Congress in the twenty-first century. They have played an important role in making Florida the successful state it is today. This book takes you on a tour, through the 67 counties, of the sites that commemorate the role of African Americans in Florida's history. If we can learn more about our past, both the good and the not-so-good, we can make better decisions in the future. Behind the hundreds of sites in this book are the courageous African Americans like Brevard County's Malissa Moore, who hosted many Saturday night dinners to raise money to build a church, and Miami-Dade's Gedar Walker, who built the first-rate Lyric Theater for black performers. And of course also featured are the more famous black Floridians like Zora Neale Hurston, Jackie Robinson, Mary McCleod Bethune, and Ray Charles.