2020ok  Directory of FREE Online Books and FREE eBooks

Free eBooks > Nonfiction > Education > Education Theory > Contemporary Methods > Multicultural > No Excuses: Lessons From 21 High-performing, High-poverty Schools

No Excuses: Lessons From 21 High-performing, High-poverty Schools

by Samuel Casey Carter


Download Book
(Respecting the intellectual property of others is utmost important to us, we make every effort to make sure we only link to legitimate sites, such as those sites owned by authors and publishers. If you have any questions about these links, please contact us.)


link 1
link 2



About Book

Book Description
Too many educators make excuses for the failure of most public schools to teach low-income children. But across the nation dozens of high-performing principals have identified those effective practices that allow all children to excel regardless of income level. In this new report, Samuel Casey Carter, a Bradley Fellow at The Heritage Foundation, examines the common practices of twenty one principals of low-income schools who set the standard for high achievement. The lessons uncovered in these case-studies provide an invaluable resource for anyone interested in providing increased educational opportunities for low-income children.

Download Description
No Excuses examines the common practices of 21 principals of low-income schools whose record of achievement shows that all children can learn, regardless of their parent's income.

From the Publisher
While the current education debate focuses on funding, a new study of low-income schools finds the key to academic excellence is not dollars, but educators who instill a passion for achievement and refuse to accept failure. In No Excuses: Lessons from 21 High-Performing, High-Poverty Schools, Samuel Casey Carter, a former Bradley fellow at the Washington-based Heritage Foundation, highlights schools whose predominantly low-income Hispanic and African-American students score significantly above the national average in core subjects. The common thread: principals and teachers who demand excellence and reject the notion that poor kids can't learn. Although at least 75 percent of the students in these schools come from low-income families, they score in the 65th percentile or higher on national exams. Nationwide, schools with 75 percent low-income students typically score below the 35th percentile. "No Excuses principals reject the ideology of victimhood that dominates most public discussion of race and academic achievement," writes Adam Meyerson, Heritage vice president for educational affairs. "They do not dumb down tests and courses for black and Hispanic children; instead they prove that children of all races and income levels can take tough courses and succeed." Jaime Escalante, the former Los Angeles calculus teacher featured in the movie "Stand and Deliver" notes, "The principals in this book are not superheroes. Other schools can match their performance by setting high standards and encouraging ganas, the desire to learn and achieve, among children of all social and economic backgrounds." These principals show what would be possible if public school systems began to encourage and reward this level of success--success that could be replicated at schools nationwide. Despite large class sizes (35 per classroom in one school) and shoestring budgets, these educators produce outstanding students, undermining the pervasive myth that only "rich kids" can do well in school.

About the Author
Samuel Casey Carter is a former Bradley Fellow at The Heritage Foundation. Carter previously served as executive editor of CRISIS, the monthly journal of religion, culture, and public policy founded by Michael Novak.

He received his B.A. in Philosophy and Mathematics from St. John's College in Annapolis. He studied for his licentiate in theology at Blackfriars, Oxford. He is now finishing his doctoral dissertation on the Phenomenology of Jacob Klein for the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America.

Comments

SEND A COMMENT

PLEASE READ: All comments must be approved before appearing in the thread; time and space constraints prevent all comments from appearing. We will only approve comments that are directly related to the article, use appropriate language and are not attacking the comments of others.

Message (please, no HTML tags. Web addresses will be hyperlinked):

Related Free eBooks

Related Tags

DIGG This story   Save To Google   Save To Windows Live   Save To Del.icio.us   diigo it   Save To blinklist
Save To Furl   Save To Yahoo! My Web 2.0   Save To Blogmarks   Save To Shadows   Save To stumbleupon   Save To Reddit