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A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom?, edited by the Progressive Policy Institute's own Andrew Rotherham, thoroughly covers the debate about how to prepare and license teachers. It gives state policymakers empirical data to help meet an important challenge - increasing teacher quality.
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High Schools on a Human Scale: How Small Schools Can Transform American Education profiles five newly created small schools and demonstrates how each boosted student achievement, fostered community and met individual needs much more effectively.
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New Schools for a New Century is a blueprint for radical reform of public education. This collection of essays, edited by scholar Diane Ravitch, reviews the Edison Project experiment, charter schools, the Catholic school model and experiences with site-based management.
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Fixing Urban Schools calls for combining reforms such as standards, choice, and accountability. The authors describe the recent history of urban school failure and contending proposals that seek to remedy the situation and offer what they hope will become a consensus vision of reform.
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The Learning Game, written by the special adviser to Britain's education minister, looks at reforms in England. A "New Democrat's dream," sites have considerable autonomy, possess the authority to manage their own budgets and can go elsewhere for legal counsel, staff training, and other services.
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Reinventing Public Education thoroughly reviews the concept and experience of "contract schools." While promoting public accountability, the authors offer practical tips on injecting innovation, risk-taking and incentives into the system. The book is especially useful to those on the front line.
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The Learning Gap compares students, teachers and parents in the US, Japan, China and Taiwan. The author's recommendations include teaching in groups, freeing teachers from long hours in the classroom, and focusing on teacher quality over class size reductions.
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Why We Still Need Public Schools argues that universal public education and the separation of church and state are related. This collection of essays looks at historical battles around the issue and how ignoring separation endangers our freedoms and public schools.
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