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In this provocative and practical book, author Eric Nadelstern provides a proven-effective blueprint for narrowing the achievement gap in our schools, especially for children of colour who have been historically underserved. The author, one of the chief architects of the New York City reforms under Joel Klein, discusses the cutting-edge changes that were implemented in the last decade in NYC and identifies the ten most important lessons learned about whole-school-system improvement. In this last decade, NYC's public schools underwent extensive reforms that increased graduation rates by 30% the first significant increase in more than 50 years. For the first time, this book presents an insider's view of the "Bloomberg-Klein years" and the reforms that transformed the nation's largest school system. 10 Lessons from New York City Schools is a must-read for those who believe schools can succeed and for all those who want to understand how.
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• I knew exactly what I was doing
• Haverford: the guilty reminder
• And all will be well
• The readiness is all
• Berkeley: thoroughly unready
• The discipline of literature
• A new kind of proletariat
• Going south
• Reading in jail
• Poetry and politics
• The storehouse of knowledge
• Unfolding the origami of teaching
• Tenure and its discontents
• Tenure tested
• Teaching and its discontents
• The English department in disarray
• Why join the administration?
• Exchanging reflection for action
• Diversity university
• Marching to a different drummer
• The puzzle of leadership
• Looking at success; looking at failure
• Learning and then leaving
• A school with aspirations
• Being a proprietor
• Real power and imaginary power
• "A king of infinite space."

In One Hundred Semesters, William Chace mixes incisive analysis with memoir to create an illuminating picture of the evolution of American higher education over the past half century. Chace follows his own journey from undergraduate education at Haverford College to teaching at Stillman, a traditionally African-American college in Alabama, in the 1960s, to his days as a professor at Stanford and his appointment as president of two very different institutions--Wesleyan University and Emory University. Chace takes us with him through his decades in education--his expulsion from.

• I knew exactly what I was doing
• Haverford: the guilty reminder
• And all will be well
• The readiness is all
• Berkeley: thoroughly unready
• The discipline of literature
• A new kind of proletariat
• Going south
• Reading in jail
• Poetry and politics
• The storehouse of knowledge
• Unfolding the origami of teaching
• Tenure and its discontents
• Tenure tested
• Teaching and its discontents
• The English department in disarray
• Why join the administration?
• Exchanging reflection for action
• Diversity university
• Marching to a different drummer
• The puzzle of leadership
• Looking at success; looking at failure
• Learning and then leaving
• A school with aspirations
• Being a proprietor
• Real power and imaginary power
• "A king of infinite space."

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