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Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School With College Makes Sense and How to Do It
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Minding the Gap argues that in today s highly competitive, global economy, all young people need a postsecondary education. Yet only one in ten students from the lowest economic quintile in the United States currently earns a postsecondary credential. This timely and instructive book from Jobs for the Future explores policies and practices that would quickly enable a larger number of low-income and first-generation college students to earn postsecondary degrees. In … More >>
Minding the Gap: Why Integrating High School With College Makes Sense and How to Do It
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Still Separate and Unequal: Segregation and the Future of Urban School Reform
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Racially separate schools cannot be equal even if funding levels are the same as wealthy White school districts, according to Barry A. Gold in his provocative new book. By documenting the effects that the New Jersey Supreme Court Abbott V decision had on schools and classrooms, Gold argues that Abbott V, along with NCLB, actually widened the educational gap between middle-class White students and minority students by creating a new but less effective type of urban e… More >>
Still Separate and Unequal: Segregation and the Future of Urban School Reform
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Handbook of School Mental Health: Advancing Practice and Research
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There is a growing movement in the United States toward developing a range of mental health programs for youth in schools. This movement is fueled by the recognition of the gap between the needs of children and adolescents and access to effective programs for this population. This volume focuses on issues being confronted by school-based mental health programs, or those that are actually working within schools. These programs provide assessment, intervention, con… More >>
Handbook of School Mental Health: Advancing Practice and Research
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