Author: Franklin P. Schargel Publisher: Eye On Education ISBN: 1596670460 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 178
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This book brings together the wisdom and experience from over 50 schools that have been categorized as "high performing, high minority, high poverty." It shows us how the leaders of those schools succeeded -- in their own words. From At-Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Doshows that you too can be a turnaround specialist. Included are actual examples and real life stories which illustrate how the leaders at these schools - raised academic achievement. - motivated students. - boosted parent and community involvement. - applied the 3 R's: rigor, relevance, & relationships.
Author: John Bell Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317925572 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 234
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This book brings together the wisdom and experience from over 50 schools that have been categorized as "high performing, high minority, high poverty." It shows us how the leaders of those schools succeeded -- in their own words. From At-Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do shows that you too can be a turnaround specialist. Included are actual examples and real life stories which illustrate how the leaders at these schools raised academic achievement, motivated students, boosted parent and community involvement, and applied the 3 r's – rigor, relevance, & relationships.
Author: Franklin Schargel Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1317925580 Category : Academic achievement Languages : en Pages : 205
Book Description
This book brings together the wisdom and experience from over 50 schools that have been categorized as ""high performing, high minority, high poverty."" It shows us how the leaders of those schools succeeded -- in their own words. From At-Risk to Academic Excellence: What Successful Leaders Do shows that you too can be a turnaround specialist. Included are actual examples and real life stories which illustrate how the leaders at these schools raised academic achievement, motivated students, boosted parent and community involvement, and applied the 3 r's - rigor, relevance, & relationships.
Author: Roland G. Tharp Publisher: ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 0
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Designed to assist U.S. students at risk of educational failure to achieve academic excellence, this report from the Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence focuses on critical issues in the education of linguistic and cultural minority students especially the four identified risk factors for educational failure: limited English profiency, poverty/economic disadvantage, race and geographic location.
Author: Morris R. Council Publisher: IAP ISBN: 164113416X Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 127
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There are numerous books documenting the challenges of student athletes and presenting recommendations for academic success. They primarily focus on understanding the issues of student-athletes and recommendations are oftentimes overly simplistic, failing to explicitly provide interventions that can be executed by student-athlete support personnel. In addition, the topic of supporting student-athletes who are academically at risk and/or are diagnosed with high incidence disabilities has been overlooked by scholars resulting in few publications specifically focusing on providing strategies to the staff/personnel who serve these populations. The general target audience is college/university practitioners who interface with student-athletes who demonstrate academic and social risk in the realm of athletics. These stakeholders include but are not limited to: academic support staff, student athletes, parents, coaches, faculty/educators, counselors, psychologists, higher education administrators, student affairs professionals, disability services coordinators/personnel, as well as researchers who focus on education leadership, sports, and special education. All of these groups are likely to find this book attractive especially as they work with student-athletes who are at-risk for academic failure. Also, it is ventured that this book will become the staple text for the National Association of Academic Advisors (N4A), the official organization for all personnel who work in collegiate academic support and can be used by members of intercollegiate athletic associations to reform policies in place to support at-risk student-athletes.
Author: William G. Bowen Publisher: University of Virginia Press ISBN: 9780813933399 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 476
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Thomas Jefferson once stated that the foremost goal of American education must be to nurture the "natural aristocracy of talent and virtue." Although in many ways American higher education has fulfilled Jefferson's vision by achieving a widespread level of excellence, it has not achieved the objective of equity implicit in Jefferson's statement. In Equity and Excellence in American Higher Education, William G. Bowen, Martin A. Kurzweil, and Eugene M. Tobin explore the cause for this divide. Employing historical research, examination of the most recent social science and public policy scholarship, international comparisons, and detailed empirical analysis of rich new data, the authors study the intersection between "excellence" and "equity" objectives. Beginning with a time line tracing efforts to achieve equity and excellence in higher education from the American Revolution to the early Cold War years, this narrative reveals the halting, episodic progress in broadening access across the dividing lines of gender, race, religion, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status. The authors argue that despite our rhetoric of inclusiveness, a significant number of youth from poor families do not share equal access to America's elite colleges and universities. While America has achieved the highest level of educational attainment of any country, it runs the risk of losing this position unless it can markedly improve the precollegiate preparation of students from racial minorities and lower-income families. After identifying the "equity" problem at the national level and studying nineteen selective colleges and universities, the authors propose a set of potential actions to be taken at federal, state, local, and institutional levels. With recommendations ranging from reform of the admissions process, to restructuring of federal financial aid and state support of public universities, to addressing the various precollegiate obstacles that disadvantaged students face at home and in school, the authors urge all selective colleges and universities to continue race-sensitive admissions policies, while urging the most selective (and privileged) institutions to enroll more well-qualified students from families with low socioeconomic status.
Author: Blandina Bernal-Morales Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand ISBN: 1789237300 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 268
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Emotional, physical and social well-being describe human health from birth. Good health goes hand in hand with the ability to handle stress for the future. However, biological factors such as diet, life experiences such as drug abuse, bullying, burnout and social factors such as family and community support at the school stage tend to mold health problems, affecting academic achievements. This book is a compilation of current scientific information about the challenges that students, families and teachers face regarding health and academic achievements. Contributions also relate to how physical activity, psychosocial support and other interventions can be made to understand resilience and vulnerability to school desertion. This book will be of interest to readers from broad professional fields, non-specialist readers, and those involved in education policy.
Author: Johnbosco C. Egbueri Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781539976806 Category : Languages : en Pages : 128
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Investing in yourself is the best investment you've got to do. This begins with a good education. And, 'Managing Your Academic Excellence' teaches you the application of the various functions and skills of management to ensure the successful running of your academic/educational career - to be in charge of your academics and achieve excellence; and hence, become a great problem solver. See this book as a quality instrument, a manual, a handbook, and in fact, a companion for every student or scholar who desires to excel in his or her academic career and otherwise. This book will enable you to understand who you are as a student and the right qualities you need to possess; the values of education in your future career jobs/endeavors; and the ways of discovering and exploiting your hidden talents and potentials. It gives you the comparisons between theoretical and practical aspects of learning and points out the threats to your academic excellence. It explains the steps you actually need in building your effective study skills and the best methods you should always employ when answering examination/test questions. The book also encourages you to keep the past failures behind you and move on to make your today better and your future even brighter. You could become that excellent student you had always wanted to be. This book is a step to achieving that; it will certainly guide you on how to be yourself and stand successful.
Author: Franklin P. Schargel
Author: John Bell
Author: Franklin Schargel
Author: Roland G. Tharp
Author: Morris R. Council
Author: United States. National Commission on Excellence in Education
Author: William G. Bowen
Author: Blandina Bernal-Morales
Author: Michele Boucree
Author: Johnbosco C. Egbueri