Isbn: 9781565848214 - final test: the battle for adequacy in america's schools (9 Ergebnisse)

Hardback. Zustand: Good. Final Test describes a powerful new movement that has emerged across America in recent years to bridge the wide gap still separating the achievement of African American and Latino students from their white and Asian counterparts more than half a century after Brown v. Board. In the past fifteen years, scholars, judges, and advocates for poor children have begun to develop a progressive approach to education in which public policies and funding are based on calculations of ?adequacy??what it actually takes in teachers, books, facilities, and other resources to educate each child.While Schrag explains the legal and legislative battles for reform with great insight and clarity, he also never loses sight of the human side of the story, ?describing in poignant detail the impact of funding inequities on individual students and why `money matters? in rectifying educational inadequacies? (Advocacy Center for Children?s Educational Success with Standards). As the California Journal raved, ?few writers can translate complex ideas into compelling nonfiction like Peter Schrag.. …

Zustand: Very Good. Pages intact with possible writing/highlighting. Binding strong with minor wear. Dust jackets/supplements may not be included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Zustand: Good. Former library copy. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Includes library markings. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Hardcover. Zustand: Fair. With dust jacket. The item might be beaten up but readable. May contain markings or highlighting, as well as stains, bent corners, or any other major defect, but the text is not obscured in any way.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. Former library book; May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

hardcover. Zustand: fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: very good. 308 pages, 8vo, boards, d.w. New York: New New Press, (2003). A fine copy in a very good dust wrapper.