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Autore |
Cookson Peter W |
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Titolo |
Sacred trust [[electronic resource] ] : a children's education bill of rights / / Peter W. Cookson, Jr. ; foreword by Rudy Crew |
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Thousand Oaks, Calif., : Corwin |
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London, : SAGE, c2011 |
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ISBN |
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1-4522-3838-3 |
1-4522-2396-3 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xv, 141 p.) : port |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Education - United States - Philosophy |
Educational sociology - United States |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 127-132) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; Foreword; About the Author; Introduction: A Measure of Our Soul; 1 - The Power of People and the Purpose of Public Education; 2 - The Right to a Safe, Healthy, World-Class Public School; 3 - The Cultural and Individual Rights of Students; 4 - The Right to High Quality Instruction and School Leadership; 5 - The Right to World-Class 21st-Century Cuirriculum and Technology; 6 - The Right to Equality of Educational Opportunity; 7 - The Right to 21st-Century Government; Resource 1: The Historic Issue of Equity and Excellence; Resource 2 - The Virginia Declaration of Rights |
Resource 3 - Education and the Peace DividendResource 4 - Principles of Multicultural Education; References; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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'Sacred Trust' argues that equality of educational opportunity is today's great civil rights issue, it demonstrates, through the use of vivid storytelling and relevant research, how a collective, national vision is needed in order to achieve world class schooling for our children in this century. |
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