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This is an OCR edition without illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Published by: California Educational Society in 1875 in 122 pages; Subjects: Education; Education / General; Education / Administration / General; Education / Aims ... Read more

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The report analyzes an array of issues pertaining to accessibility, student achievement, governance, and operation of charter schools in California.Four specific research questions were investigated:(1) What population of students attend charter schools?(2) Is student achievement higher in charter schools than in conventional public schools?(3) What oversight and support do the chartering authorities provide?(4) How do charter schools differ from their conventional public school counterparts in terms of their operation, including finances, academic achievement, and staffing? ... Read more

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Beginning in the 1970s, school finance in California was transformed from a local to a state system.Has this transformation been good for California? For Better or For Worse? School Finance Reform in California traces the origins of school finance reform and assesses its chief consequences.Concluding that this reform did not achieve most of its original goals, the authors attribute this failure to two factors:the reformers' imperfect understanding of the inequities under local finance and the effects of Proposition 13. ... Read more

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School Budgets and Student Achievement in California: The Principals' Perspective presents the results of school budget workshops with 45 principals from representative schools across the state. Principals were given three different budgets and asked to allocate resources so as to maximize student performance at two schools, one with a more disadvantaged student body than the other. In addition to documenting resource allocation strategies, the report finds that principals associated higher funding levels and student socioeconomic status with better academic performance. It also finds that more than half the principals thought that the disadvantaged school would not meet the stateÂ’s rigorous academic standards even with significantly higher budgets. Although allocations and performance predictions differed, the average responses offer tangible and whole representations of what certain funding levels might buy as well as the perceived efficacy of individual resources. ... Read more

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Provides step-by-step instructions for craft projects based on traditional crafts of the Pomo, Zuni, Pueblo, Navajo, and other Native Americans of the Western and Southwestern United States. ... Read more

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This books contains all kinds of fun and fascinating facts about the plants and animals of California and the habitats in which they live. You'll find information about where and how California plants and animals live, and how these living things fit into

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: The Pacific mutual life insurance company of California; Publication date: 1917; Subjects: Life insurance; Insurance, Life; Business ... Read more

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The book has no illustrations or index. It may have numerous typos or missing text. However, purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original rare book from the publisher's website (GeneralBooksClub.com). You can also preview excerpts of the book there. Purchasers are also entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Original Publisher: San Francisco, Fearon Publishers; Publication date: 1957; Subjects: Moral education; Education / General; Education / Aims ... Read more

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Follows California's efforts at reforming the public school system from 1983 to the present. ... Read more

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Publisher: Sacramento, W.W. Shannon, Superintendent of State PrintingPublication date: 1909Subjects: English language -- Study and teaching (Elementary)Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Putting the parents back in the "driver's seat" in regards to their child's education can only be accomplished with a goal in mind for what they expect and want for their children educationally.The author offers suggestions that can alter your child's destiny from a 13 year child care stint to educational opportunities infinitum.A valuable read from whatever side of the fence you stand. ... Read more

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This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone! ... Read more

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In this provocative volume, Amy Stuart Wells and her co-authors provide evidence that the laissez-faire policies of charter school reform often exacerbate existing inequalities in our schools.Providing the most comprehensive, critical review of charter schools to date, this timely volume is based on the authors’ in-depth study of 10 urban, suburban, and rural school districts and 17 diverse charter schools in California, plus their analysis of other charter school studies from around the country. Focusing on two central issues—accountability and equity—they explore how charter school policies affect the lives of children, educators, and parents in diverse social, economic, and political contexts. The authors conclude that although the quality and experiences of charter schools is highly varied across different contexts, the laws that allow these schools to exist fail to assure meaningful accountability. Meanwhile, these policies increase inequality and stratification by pushing the educational system toward privatization in terms of finance and admissions while failing to target much-needed resources toward low-income communities. This dynamic book will help educators and policymakers develop a future policy agenda for charter school reform that will be more responsive to the needs of all children. ... Read more

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Describes the condition and performance of California's K-12 public schools in terms of student population, resources, and outcomes, analyzing trends and comparing California to other states and the nation as a whole. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR), published by The Register Guard on June 20, 2003. The length of the article is 867 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Assistant schools chief to take post in California.(Schools)(Jim Slemp's sudden change of plans stuns colleagues in the Eugene district)
Publication: The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR) (Newspaper)
Date: June 20, 2003
Publisher: The Register Guard
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