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First published in 1980 and now considered a classic, School Power was the first book to demonstrate the positive effect of applying powerful psychological, social, and institutional forces on the performance of administrators, teachers, parents, and students. It shows how a university, a public school system, and parents worked together to move problem schools to an exceptional level of social and academic achievement. Now, reissued with a new preface and epilogue and a foreword by Marian Wright Edelman, School Power describes in detail the way that educators can use the knowledge of social and behavioral science, and education to overcome poor motivation, low self-esteem, discipline problems, and serious learning disabilities. ... Read more

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Comer is the modern day father of school reform.
This book argues for a synergy between child and adolescent development, systems thinking, action research, and professional ethics as Comer helps us to understand how various social institutions must be connected for school reform to be comprehensive and lasting. Much of what is written about school reform fails to consider the impact of institutions beyond the school. American school reform has been like the blind men and the elephant,with pieces of the school being identified as needing reform rather than the whole system and the institutions that support it.There is a common sense about Comer's ideas that seem so obvious. One wonders why his ideas have not become standard operating procedure. Ironically, almost any of the curriculum reforms can fit under the Comer umbrella. ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Sacred Heart High School is a private, Roman Catholic high school in Waterbury, Connecticut. It is located in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Hartford.Sacred Heart was established in 1922 as an all-girls school. The school became coeducational in 1938. Since 1975, the school has been located in the old Waterbury Catholic High School building in downtown Waterbury.High school is the name used in some parts of the world, particularly in Scotland, Northern America, and Oceania to describe an institution that provides all or part of secondary education. ... Read more

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Discusses the history, economy, culture, and future of Connecticut. ... Read more

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A microstudy of Connecticut
Connecticut was one of the first areas settled by Europeans at the dawn of the modern era. For that reason, it is rich in history. And its role during the Revolution is extremely crucial to an understanding of us as a nation. This great little book will explain it all

The "Portrait of America" series is a wonderful and concise introduction for pre-teens to all of the fifty states and to the places and events that shaped the history of the United States. This "Connecticut" installment is particularly good. The book is broken down into sections like "History", "Culture", "Economy" etc., and each section is thoughtfully written and edited. And this edition is loaded with several beautiful photographs. The "History" section is my personal favorite, mostly for its coverage of Connecticut's colonial era.

This book, as well as the entire "Portrait of America" series, will prove to be a valuable teaching tool to all primary school educators. ... Read more

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Connecticut school administrators are required topass the Connecticut Administrator Test forcertification. This examination is based on theConnecticut Standards for School Leaders. Sinceentry-level school administrators are trained andprepared to use the Connecticut Standards for SchoolLeaders in their daily practice, it is reasonable toknow their perceptions of how well they wereprepared. This book, therefore, bothquantitatively and qualitatively look at noviceurban high school principals' perceptions of howtheir graduate educational leadership programsprepared them to implement the Connecticut Standardsfor School Leaders as organized into four areas forschool improvement: (1) Teaching and Learning, (2)Capacity Building, (3) Community Building, and (4)Policy and Management. The analysis of multiple datato triangulate findings shed some light on noviceurban high school principal perceptions, and shouldbe especially helpful to graduate educationalleadership programs, aspiring school administrators,school principals, and education policy makers. ... 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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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Staples High School is a public secondary school, located in the town of Westport, Connecticut, USA. Staples High School is named after Horace Staples who founded the school in 1884. The school was moved to its current location on North Avenue in 1958, and was recently expanded and renovated into an all-new facility.For comparison purposes with similar schools, the state Department of Education classifies schools and communities in "District Reference Groups", defined as "districts whose students' families are similar in education, income, occupation and need, and that have roughly similar enrollment".[citation needed] Westport is one of eight school districts in District Reference Group A (others are Darien, Easton, New Canaan, Redding, Ridgefield, Weston, and Wilton). ... Read more

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Chapters: Yale Law School. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 36. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Yale Law School, or YLS, is the law school of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1824, it offers the J.D., LL.M., J.S.D. and M.S.L. degrees in law. It also hosts visiting scholars and a number of legal research centers. The school's prestige and small size make its admissions process among the most selective of any United States law school. Yale has been ranked number one in the country by U.S. News and World Report in every year in which the magazine has published law school rankings. Among other luminaries, former U.S. President William Howard Taft was a professor of constitutional law at the school from 1913 until he resigned to become Chief Justice of the United States in 1921. Presidents Gerald Ford and Bill Clinton received their law degrees at Yale Law School later in the century, and the law school's library has been memorialized as the meeting place of Bill and fellow student and current Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. Current U.S. Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Sonia Sotomayor are alumni of the school, and a number of former Justices have attended the school, including Abe Fortas, Potter Stewart, and Byron R. White. Former Democratic Vice Presidential nominees Sargent Shriver and Joe Lieberman are also graduates. The school has also produced several heads of state around the world, including Karl Carstens, fifth president of Germany, and Jose P. Laurel, president of the Philippines during World War II. Alumni also include the current deans of the law schools at Yale, Harvard, Columbia, NYU, Chicago, Michigan, Penn, Virginia, Northwestern, Georgetown, and Illinois. The school's law library, Lillian Goldman Law Library,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=456406 ... 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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Title: An Historical Discourse, on the Two Hundredth Anniversary of the Founding of the Hopkins Grammar School, New Haven, Connecticut. Delivered Before the "hopkins Grammar School Association", July 24th, 1860 / by Leonard Woolsey Bacon. With Notes and an Appendix. Pub. by Request of the AssociationPublisher: New Haven, Printed by T. J. StaffordPublication date: 1860Subjects: Hopkins Grammar School (New Haven, Conn.)Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous 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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Publication date: 1903Notes: 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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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: Meriden, Conn., Press of Connecticut School for Bo; Publication date: 1897; Subjects: Biography ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Steven Culbertson (born 1967 in Bitburg, Germany is President and Chief Executive Officer of Youth Service America (May 16, 1996?present). Born of American parents on Bitburg Air Force Base in Bitburg, Germany, Culbertson grew up in Camp Springs, Maryland and Amherst, Massachusetts. He graduated from Amherst Regional High School in 1975 where he played soccer and squash, ran track, and was president of the Student Council. He attended Hamilton College in Clinton, NY and received B.A. degrees in English and French in 1979. He began his career as Director of Communications for the Chi Psi Educational Trust in Ann Arbor, Michigan. ... Read more

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When founded in 1911, Connecticut College for Women was a pioneering women's college that sought to prepare the progressive eras ""new woman"" to be selfsufficient. Despite a path-breaking emphasis on preparation for work in the new fields opening to women, Connecticut College and its peers have been overlooked by historians of women's higher education. This book makes the case for the significance of Connecticut College's birth and evolution, and contextualizes the college in the history of womens education. ""Eighth Sister No More""examines Connecticut College for Women's founding mission and vision, revealing how its grassroots founding to provide educational opportunity for women was altered by coeducation; how the college has been shaped by changes in thinking about womens roles and alterations in curricular emphasis; and the role local community ties played at the college's point of origin and during the recent presidency of Claire Gaudiani, the only alumna to lead the college. Examining Connecticut College's founding in the context of its evolution illustrates how founding mission and vision inform the way colleges describe what they are and do, and whether there are essential elements of founding mission and vision that must be remembered or preserved. Drawing on archival research, oral history interviews, and seminal works on higher education history and womens history, ""Eighth Sister No More"" provides an illuminating view into the liberal arts segment of American higher education. ... Read more