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Basic Skills Education in Community Colleges(1st Edition)
Inside and Outside of Classrooms
by W. Norton Grubb, Robert Gabriner
Paperback, 256 Pages, Published 2012 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-63475-5, ISBN: 0-415-63475-X

"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. Norton Grubb
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. Norton Grubb, 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 ..."






Education and Racism
A Primer on Issues and Dilemmas (Hardback)
by Zeus Leonardo, W. Norton, W. Norton Grubb
Hardcover, Published 2018 by Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-11876-8, ISBN: 1-138-11876-1






The Education Gospel
The Economic Power of Schooling
by W. Norton Grubb, 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 ..."






Honored But Invisible(1st Edition)
An Inside Look at Teaching in Community Colleges
by W. Norton Grubb, Helena Worthen, Barbara Byrd, Elnora Webb, Norena Badway, Chester Case, Stanford Goto, Jennifer Curry Villeneuve
Paperback, 392 Pages, Published 1999 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-92165-7, ISBN: 0-415-92165-1

"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(2nd Edition)
by Zeus Leonardo, W. Norton Grubb, W. Norton
Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2018 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-138-11877-5, ISBN: 1-138-11877-X

"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 ..."






Broken Promises(Reprint)
How Americans Fail Their Children
by W. Norton Grubb, Marvin Lazerson, Vinigi L. Grottanelli
Paperback, 394 Pages, Published 1988 by Univ Of Chicago Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-226-31004-6, ISBN: 0-226-31004-3

"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."






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Education Through Occupations in American High Schools: Approaches to Integrating Academic and Vocational Education
by W. Norton Grubb
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."






States and Schools
(Lexington Books)
by W. Norton Grubb, Stephen Michelson
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1974 by Imprint Unknown
ISBN-13: 978-0-669-93385-7, ISBN: 0-669-93385-6






The Roles of Evaluation for Vocational Education and Training
Plain Talk on the Field of Dreams
by W. Norton Grubb, Paul Ryan
Hardcover, 195 Pages, Published 2000 by Kogan Page Ltd
ISBN-13: 978-0-7494-3070-2, ISBN: 0-7494-3070-2

"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. Norton Grubb
Hardcover, 304 Pages, Published 1996 by Jossey-Bass
ISBN-13: 978-0-7879-0258-2, ISBN: 0-7879-0258-6






Education Through Occupations in American High Schools
by W. Norton Grubb
Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 1995 by Teachers College Press
ISBN-13: 978-0-8077-3459-9, ISBN: 0-8077-3459-4

"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."






Basic Skills Education in Community Colleges
Inside and Outside of Classrooms (Hardback)
by W. Norton Grubb
Hardcover, 240 Pages, Published 2013 by Taylor Francis Ltd, United Kingdom
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-63474-8, ISBN: 0-415-63474-1

"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 ..."






Money Myth, The
School Resources, Outcomes, and Equity
by W. Norton Grubb
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, ..."






American Education and Vocationalism(1st Edition)
A Documentary History 1870-1970
by Marvin Lazerson, W. Norton Grubb
Hardcover, 190 Pages, Published 1974 by Teachers College Pr
ISBN-13: 978-0-8077-2413-2, ISBN: 0-8077-2413-0

"Book by Lazerson, Marvin, Grubb, W. Norton"






Broken Promises
How Americans Fail Their Children
by W. Norton Grubb, Marvin Lazerson
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 1982 by Basic Books
ISBN-13: 978-0-465-00774-5, ISBN: 0-465-00774-0






Basic Skills Education in Community Colleges
Inside and Outside of Classrooms
by W. Norton Grubb
244 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-136-20607-8, ISBN: 1-136-20607-8

"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 ..."






Education and Racism
A Primer on Issues and Dilemmas
by Zeus Leonardo, W. Norton Grubb
Hardcover, 208 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-89100-4, ISBN: 0-415-89100-0






Education and Racism
A Primer on Issues and Dilemmas
by Zeus Leonardo, W. Norton Grubb
176 Pages, Published 2013 by Routledge
ISBN-13: 978-1-136-70672-1, ISBN: 1-136-70672-0

"In D. Maramba & R. Bonus (Eds.), The “other students”: Filipino Americans, education, andpower (pp. 3–18). Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing. Macedo, D. (1993). English only: The tonguetying of America. In J. Noll (Ed.), Taking sides ..."



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