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Closing the Achievement Gap: A Vision to Guide Change in Beliefs and Practice

Developed by the regional educational laboratories, this document outlines the nature of the urban achievement gap and points to six areas needing complex, integrated change.

Diversity in the Classroom: Diversity Set

This publication offers 13 dramatic accounts of real-life classroom dilemmas written by veteran inner-city teachers and is intended as a basis for discussion in preservice and inservice seminars.

Hate Crime: A Sourcebook for Schools

Discusses the nature and incidence of hate crime, the role of schools in curtailing it, and provides practical resources schools can use to address hate crime.

Improving the Urban High School: What Works and Why

Based on a nationwide school survey, in-depth case studies, and improvement literature, the authors illuminate school-based leadership and improvement, pointing to the key factors required for real change.

Integrating Education, Health, and Social Services in Rural Communities: Service Integration Through the Rural Prism

This monograph focuses on "service integration" in rural schools, or schools delivering a wide array of educational, health, nutritional, day care, and related social services to children, youth, and families.

Internet Jones vs. the River Killers! (5-pack)

This 20-page book was designed specifically as a learning tool to support K-12 mathematics and science teachers' effective use of the Internet.

Keys to Adult Learning: Theories and Practical Strategies

This book is a guide to working successfully with adults learners; it covers the characteristics of adult learners, how adults learn, adult development, and six practical keys to success.

Mandating Academic Excellence: High School Responses to State Curriculum Reform

This book offers a systematic, empirical look at mandatory changes in high school graduation requirements, using Maryland as a case study.

New Vision of the Urban Learner: Four Staff Development Modules

This document provides an overview of the Urban Learner Framework and discusses four staff development modules that represent each of the themes. A training guide and handouts are included.

Teacher Expectations and Low-Achieving Students

Discusses research related to teacher expectations as a factor in school success for low-achieving students, teaching implications, and exemplary strategies and programs.

Teachers as Instructional Leaders

A study of schools in a school improvement program where teachers assumed the major responsibility for the project's success.