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Record Nr.

UNISA996204765903316

Autore

Comer James P.

Titolo

What I learned in school : reflections on race, child development, and school reform / / James P. Comer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, California : , : Jossey-Bass, , 2009

©2009

ISBN

0-470-54166-0

1-282-30213-2

9786612302138

1-118-26940-3

0-470-54164-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (194 p.)

Collana

Outstanding Ideas in Education

Disciplina

370.92

379.73

Soggetti

Educators - United States

Education - United States

Education - United States - Philosophy

Child development - United States

African American children - Education

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

What I Learned in School: Reflections on Race, Child Development, and School Reform; Contents; Introduction; Address at the Grawemeyer Award Ceremony; Chapter 1: Washington Elementary School; Chapter 2: Me, Walter, and America; Chapter 3: Three Networks and a Baby; Chapter 4: So You Want to Work in Schools?; Chapter 5: My Work; Chapter 6: To Leave No Child Behind; Chapter 7: All Our Children; Questions for Reflection; Index; The Author

Sommario/riassunto

From the Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2007 ""In the world of education reform, where silver-bullet ideas, ideologies, and intellectual fashion clamor for influence, James Comer's thinking has long been a sea of calm, balanced, and humane wisdom focused on



the needs of the whole person. Reading Comer you see the incompleteness of so many other approaches to reform, as well as learn an integrated approach to making schools work. And now, here it all is in a single book. If you want to see how schools can actually work, as opposed to affiliate with a prior belief about how the