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Author : Carol Camp Yeakey
Release : 2000-09-01
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 645/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Surmounting All Odds - Vol. 1 by : Carol Camp Yeakey
Download or read book Surmounting All Odds - Vol. 1 written by Carol Camp Yeakey. This book was released on 2000-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 1 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.
Author : Carol Camp Yeakey
Release : 2003-09-01
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 188/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Surmounting all Odds - Vol. 1&2 by : Carol Camp Yeakey
Download or read book Surmounting all Odds - Vol. 1&2 written by Carol Camp Yeakey. This book was released on 2003-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text integrates the core instructional leadership tasks of all principals: supervision, evaluation, and professional development. It is a practical, hands-on approach based on sound theory and research.
Author : Carol Camp Yeakey
Release : 2000-09-01
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 871/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Surmounting All Odds - Vol. 2 by : Carol Camp Yeakey
Download or read book Surmounting All Odds - Vol. 2 written by Carol Camp Yeakey. This book was released on 2000-09-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 2 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.
Author : Jennie E. Brand
Release : 2023-08-31
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 936/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Overcoming the Odds by : Jennie E. Brand
Download or read book Overcoming the Odds written by Jennie E. Brand. This book was released on 2023-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each year, millions of high school students consider whether to continue their schooling and attend and complete college. Despite evidence showing that a college degree yields far-reaching benefits, critics of higher education increasingly argue that college “does not pay off” and some students - namely, disadvantaged prospective college goers - would be better served by forgoing higher education. But debates about the value of college often fail to carefully consider what is required to speak knowledgeably about the benefits –what a person’s life might look like had they not completed college, or their college counterfactual. In Overcoming the Odds sociologist Jennie E. Brand reveals the benefits of completing college by comparing life outcomes of college graduates with their college counterfactuals. Drawing on two cohorts of nationally representative data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics National Longitudinal Surveys program, Brand uses matching and machine learning methods to estimate the effects of college completion across students with varying likelihoods of completing four-year degrees. To illustrate her findings, Brand describes outcomes using matched vignettes of college and non-college graduates. Brand shows that four-year college completion enables graduates to increase wages and household income, while also circumventing unemployment, low-wage work, job instability, poverty, and social assistance. Completing college also increases civic engagement. Most of these benefits are larger for disadvantaged than for more advantaged students, rendering arguments that college has limited benefits for unlikely graduates as flawed. Brand concludes that greater long-term earnings, and less job instability and unemployment, and thus more tax revenue, less reliance on public assistance, and high levels of volunteering indicate that public investment in higher education for students from disadvantaged backgrounds yields far-reaching collective benefits. She asserts that it is better for our society when more people complete college. Overcoming the Odds is an innovative and enlightening exploration of how college can transform lives.
Author : Susan S. Klein
Release : 2014-05-22
Genre : Education
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 618/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education by : Susan S. Klein
Download or read book Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education written by Susan S. Klein. This book was released on 2014-05-22. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1985, the Handbook for Achieving Gender Equity Through Education quickly established itself as the essential reference work concerning gender equity in education. This new, expanded edition provides a 20-year retrospective of the field, one that has the great advantage of documenting U.S. national data on the gains and losses in the efforts to advance gender equality through policies such as Title IX, the landmark federal law prohibiting sex discrimination in education, equity programs and research. Key features include: Expertise – Like its predecessor, over 200 expert authors and reviewers provide accurate, consensus, research-based information on the nature of gender equity challenges and what is needed to meet them at all levels of education. Content Area Focus – The analysis of gender equity within specific curriculum areas has been expanded from 6 to 10 chapters including mathematics, science, and engineering. Global/Diversity Focus – Global gender equity is addressed in a separate chapter as well as in numerous other chapters. The expanded section on gender equity strategies for diverse populations contains seven chapters on African Americans, Latina/os, Asian and Pacific Island Americans, American Indians, gifted students, students with disabilities, and lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender students. Action Oriented – All chapters contain practical recommendations for making education activities and outcomes more gender equitable. A final chapter consolidates individual chapter recommendations for educators, policymakers, and researchers to achieve gender equity in and through education. New Material – Expanded from 25 to 31 chapters, this new edition includes: *more emphasis on male gender equity and on sexuality issues; *special within population gender equity challenges (race, ability and disability, etc); *coeducation and single sex education; *increased use of rigorous research strategies such as meta-analysis showing more sex similarities and fewer sex differences and of evaluations of implementation programs; *technology and gender equity is now treated in three chapters; *women’s and gender studies; *communication skills relating to English, bilingual, and foreign language learning; and *history and implementation of Title IX and other federal and state policies. Since there is so much misleading information about gender equity and education, this Handbook will be essential for anyone who wants accurate, research-based information on controversial gender equity issues—journalists, policy makers, teachers, Title IX coordinators, equity trainers, women’s and gender study faculty, students, and parents.
