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Partnering to Lead Educational Renewal:
High-Quality Teachers, High-Quality Schools
Jean Houck, Kathleen Cohn and Carl Cohn, Editors
Foreword by Kati Haycock
Pub Date: February 2004, 224 pages
Paperback: $25.95, ISBN: 0807744212
Cloth: $54.00, ISBN: 0807744220
 
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"You are about to read the story of one American city where the leadership decided to take on the challenge of creating a high-quality, "seamless" education system….Either they were just plain nuts or they knew something that the rest of education has yet to learn."—From the Foreword by Kati Haycock, Director, The Education Trust, Washington, DCThis timely book presents examples of best practices and highly effective strategies to bring about systemic change to improve student achievement—describing the lessons learned from one of the most highly successful Pre–K through university partnerships in the United States. Providing invaluable guidance, this highly readable volume:
- Offers concrete solutions to problems confronting many urban schools, ranging from day-to-day operations to complex issues such as teacher readiness, advice that comes from the winner of the 2003 Broad Prize for Urban Education.
- Describes many of the key initiatives implemented by the partnership, such as K-3 reading, high school tutoring, service learning, a standards-based teacher education program, and professional development for teachers.
- Shows how three large educational institutions worked together to increase achievement for all pre-kindergarten through graduate school students in a large, highly diverse, multilingual urban area.
- Reveals the creation, implementation, and inner workings of the Long Beach Education Partnership."
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