Author: California Grand Jury (San Mateo County)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grand jury
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Final Report ...
Author: California Grand Jury (San Mateo County)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Grand jury
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
Inside the College Gates
Author: Jenny M. StuberPublisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739149008
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 209
Book Description
To date, scholars in higher education have examined the ways in which students' experiences in the classroom and the human capital they attain impact social class inequalities. In this book, Jenny Stuber argues that the experiential core of college life-the social and extra-curricular worlds of higher education-operates as a setting in which social class inequalities manifest and get reproduced. As college students form friendships and get involved in activities like Greek life, study abroad, and student government, they acquire the social and cultural resources that give them access to valuable social and occupational opportunities beyond the college gates. Yet students' social class backgrounds also impact how they experience the experiential core of college life, structuring their abilities to navigate their campus's social and extra-curricular worlds. Stuber shows that upper-middle-class students typically arrive on campus with sophisticated maps and navigational devices to guide their journeys-while working-class students are typically less well equipped for the journey. She demonstrates, as well, that students' social interactions, friendships, and extra-curricular involvements also shape-and are shaped by-their social class worldviews-the ideas they have about their own and others' class identities and their beliefs about where they and others fit within the class system. By focusing on student' social class worldviews, this book provides insight into how identities and consciousness are shaped within educational settings. Ultimately, this examination of what happens inside the college gates shows how which higher education serves as an avenue for social reproduction, while also providing opportunities for the contestation of class inequalities.
Illinois 2021 Rules of the Road
Author: State of State of IllinoisPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Illinois 2021 Rules of the Road handbook, drive safe!
Child Friendly Schools Manual
Author: Publisher: UNICEF
ISBN: 9280643762
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This Child-Friendly Schools (CFS) Manual was developed during three-and-a-half years of continuous work, involving the United Nations Children's Fund education staff and specialists from partner agencies working on quality education. It benefits from fieldwork in 155 countries and territories, evaluations carried out by the Regional Offices and desk reviews conducted by headquarters in New York. The manual is a part of a total resource package that includes an e-learning package for capacity-building in the use of CFS models and a collection of field case studies to illustrate the state of the art in child-friendly schools in a variety of settings.
Choosing Colleges
Author: Patricia M. McDonoughPublisher: SUNY Press
ISBN: 9780791434789
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Examines the everyday experiences of high school seniors as they choose their colleges and demonstrates that college choice is a more complex social and organizational reality than has been previously understood.
Schools Making a Difference
Author: Martin ThruppPublisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335231411
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Does an effective school really come about through the actions of teachers and school leaders, or does it also require an advantaged student intake? This question reflects a longstanding research debate about whether or not the social class mix of a school's student intake has much effect on individual achievement. Schools Making a Difference: Let's Be Realistic! presents new evidence which suggests that school mix is likely to be important because of the way many school processes are deeply influenced by student intake characteristics. Low socioeconomic schools face numerous intake-related constraints which make them highly resistant to improvement efforts. By suggesting that 'failing' schools are often overwhelmed rather than ineffective, this book provides a sympathetic reappraisal of the performance of teachers and school leaders in such schools. It also offers a critical response to the often unrealistic claims of the school effectiveness and school improvement movement and a fresh critique of market reforms in education.
The American Diabetes Association/JDRF Type 1 Diabetes Sourcebook
Author: Anne L. PetersPublisher: American Diabetes Association
ISBN: 1580405061
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 729
Book Description
The American Diabetes Association/JDRF Type 1 Diabetes Sourcebook serves as both an evidence-based reference work and consensus report outlining the most critical components of care for individuals with type 1 diabetes throughout their lifespan. The volume serves not only as a comprehensive guide for clinicians, but also reviews the evidence supporting these components of care and provides a perspective on the critical areas of research that are needed to improve our understanding of type 1 diabetes diagnosis and treatment. The volume focuses specifically on the needs of patients with type 1 diabetes and provides clear and detailed guidance on the current standards for the optimal treatment of type 1 diabetes from early childhood to later life. To accomplish the book’s editorial goals, Editors-in-Chief, Drs. Anne Peters and Lori Laffel, assembled an editorial steering committee of prominent research physicians, clinicians, and educators to develop the topical coverage. In addition, a Managing Editor was brought on to help the authors write and focus their chapters.
Alumnado en situación de riesgo social
Author: Rosa Maria González MerinoPublisher: Grao
ISBN: 8499802176
Category : Education
Languages : es
Pages : 234
Book Description
Este libro es una herramienta útil de soporte y ayuda a los docentes a quienes permite conocer cuáles son las necesidades y potencialidades de estos alumnos, teniendo en cuenta que construirse como persona constituye un reto importante para cualquier ser humano y, muy especialmente, para aquellos niños y adolescentes cuya vida se desarrolla en contextos de desigualdad y dificultad social en los que sus derechos son frecuentemente vulnerados. En estos casos, la escuela puede ser para todos ellos una experiencia compensatoria de los déficits sufridos y un entorno de cuidado, a la vez que posibilita los cambios que les permitan una mejor calidad de vida.
Global Perspectives on Higher Education
Author: Philip G. AltbachPublisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421419262
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 349
Book Description
The single best book on higher education as a global phenomenon. Over the past half-century, globalization has had a profound impact on postsecondary education. The twin forces of mass higher education and the global knowledge economy have driven an unprecedented transformation. These fundamental changes have pulled in opposite directions: one pushes for wider access and accompanying challenges of quality, the other toward exclusive, “world class” research-oriented universities. In Global Perspectives on Higher Education, renowned higher education scholar Philip G. Altbach offers a wide-ranging perspective on the implications of these key forces and explores how they influence academe everywhere. Altbach begins with a discussion of the global trends that increasingly affect higher education, including the implications of mass enrollments, the logic of mass higher education systems around the world, and specific challenges facing Brazil, Russia, India, and China. He considers the numerous implications of globalization, including the worldwide use of the English language, university cross-border initiatives, the role of research universities in developing countries, the impact of the West on Asian universities, and the expansion of private higher education. Provocative and wide-ranging, Global Perspectives on Higher Education considers how the international exchange of ideas, students, and scholars has fundamentally altered higher education.
Higher Education And Social Justice
Author: Furlong, AndyPublisher: McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
ISBN: 0335223621
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Higher Education and Social Justice provides essential reading for anyone who has an interest in higher education or a concern for social justice, including lecturers, administrators and policy makers in higher education.