"Nearly two-thirds of students require some form of remediation before taking college-level classes, and community colleges have become increasingly important in providing this education. Unfortunately, relatively few students complete the developmental courses required to make a transition to college-level work. Based on a three-year study of over twenty community colleges, Basic Skills Education in Community Colleges analyzes developme ..."
The Money Myth School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity by W. NortonGrubb Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2011 by Russell Sage Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-043-0, ISBN: 0-87154-043-6
"Can money buy high-quality education? Studies find only a weak relationship between public school funding and educational outcomes. In The Money Myth, W. Norton Grubb proposes a powerful paradigm shift in the way we think about why some schools thrive and others fail. The greatest inequalities in America's schools lie in factors other than fiscal support. Fundamental differences in resources other than money--for example, in leadership, ..."
Leading from the Inside Out(1st Edition) Expanded Roles for Teachers in Equitable Schools (Teacher's Toolkit) by Lynda Tredway, W. NortonGrubb, David Grubb Paperback, 239 Pages, Published 2010 by Paradigm Publishers ISBN-13: 978-1-59451-836-2, ISBN: 1-59451-836-X
"This book proposes that the collective responsibility of teachers as classroom and school leaders working together to solve their own problems provides the fulcrum of school change. It makes the case that teachers and school leaders do not operate in a vacuum, but rather, they work within the larger context of policy and other social influences. Grubb and Tredway provide the building blocks of history, policy ..."
The Education Gospel The Economic Power of Schooling by W. NortonGrubb, Marvin Lazerson Paperback, 334 Pages, Published 2007 by Harvard University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-674-02545-5, ISBN: 0-674-02545-8
" In this hard-hitting history of "the gospel of education," W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson reveal the allure, and the fallacy, of the longstanding American faith that more schooling for more people is the remedy for all our social and economic problems--and that the central purpose of education is workplace preparation. But do increasing levels of education accurately represent the demands of today's jobs? Grubb and Lazerson arg ..."
"Washington, D.C.: Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education. Manski, C. ( 1989). Schooling ... Berkeley and Santa Monica: National Center for Research in Vocational Education and the RAND Corporation. McDonnell, L. M., 8c ... Robinson, R. D. (1990, November). Whole language: A ..."
"Education and Racism is a concise and easily accessible primer for introducing undergraduate and graduate students to the field of race and education. Designed for introductory courses, each chapter provides an overview of a main issue or dilemma in the research on racial inequality and education and the particular approaches that have been offered to explain or address them. Theme-oriented chapters include curriculum, school (re)segreg ..."
"In Broken Promises, W. Norton Grubb and Marvin Lazerson analyze the development of public responsibility for children in the United States since the early nineteenth century and explain why public obligations have always been compromised."
001 Education Through Occupations in American High Schools: Approaches to Integrating Academic and Vocational Education by W. NortonGrubb Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 1995 by Teachers College Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-8077-3450-6, ISBN: 0-8077-3450-0
"Examines curriculum integration from a variety of perspectives, presenting this complex reform as a possible solution to many current widespread complaints about the secondary schools in this country."
"Focusing on the why and how of evaluation before judging the results of available evaluations of vocational training, this is a critical appraisal of attitudes and approaches from around the world. Topics include the use and abuse of evaluation results and the shift to work-based learning."
The Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Ser.(1st Edition) Working in the Middle : Strengthening Education and Training for the Mid-Skilled Labor Force by W. NortonGrubb Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1996 by Jossey-Bass ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-0258-2, ISBN: 0-7879-0258-6
"Examines curriculum integration from a variety of perspectives, presenting this complex reform as a possible solution to many current widespread complaints about the secondary schools in this country."
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them not to “do tutoring,” which was actually to give them the answers, and
instead to have those tutors be trained through the Learning Center. As is true in
most classrooms, there are few efforts in tutorials to engage ... Hawkes Learning
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Money Myth, The School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity by W. NortonGrubb Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2009 by Russell Sage Foundation ISBN-13: 978-0-87154-366-0, ISBN: 0-87154-366-4
"Can money buy high-quality education? Studies find only a weak relationship between public school funding and educational outcomes. In The Money Myth, W. Norton Grubb proposes a powerful paradigm shift in the way we think about why some schools thrive and others fail. The greatest inequalities in America's schools lie in factors other than fiscal support. Fundamental differences in resources other than money--for example, in leadership, ..."
Broken Promises How Americans Fail Their Children by W. NortonGrubb, Marvin Lazerson Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1982 by Basic Books ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00774-5, ISBN: 0-465-00774-0
"They [a TRIO program] also had a tutoring program, and it took us years to get
them not to “do tutoring,” which was actually to give them the answers, and
instead to have those tutors be trained through the Learning Center. As is true in
most classrooms, there are few efforts in tutorials to engage ... Hawkes Learning
Systems Basic Mathematics, the Lindamood-Bell system for reading, MathXLß,
the Universal Learning Design project. T ..."
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