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Order your own softcover color reprint of a previously owned high school yearbook. Whether you no longer have your own copy or want to surprise someone with a unique gift, the memories in this yearbook are sure to make someone smile! All the pages and images are reproduced as-is, which means your copy may show handwriting or effects of aging, and that certain pages, images, or other content may be omitted, missing, or obscured. This color print will preserve any images originally printed in color (including the cover), but won't add color to images originally printed in black & white. You can preview the color pages before you buy at www.classmates.com/yearbooks.Don't miss out! Bring home a piece of your history. ... 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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Is the virtual charter public school a viable alternative to traditional education? Virtual Charter Schools and Home Schooling is a rich and insightful study that undertakes a comprehensive investigation to answer this important question. It strongly makes the case for this idea with one of the first comprehensive investigations of the relationship between virtual charter schools and home schooling. Benefits as well as drawbacks or limitations to both parties are examined using a combination of quantitative and qualitative methodologies. "This book is exactly what we need to know about the potential and current results of one type of charter, virtual, home schooling network. Her research adds much to our current understanding and can serve as a model for more inquiry and reasoned dialogue. There is much to be learned by studying all aspects of alternative school efforts--Dr. Klein, a public school educator, with more than 20 years of experience, is to be congratulated for the clarity and insight she brings to the discussion." - Mary Poplin, Professor of Education, Claremont Graduate University ... Read more

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Chapters: Schools in Inglewood, Caliornia, Animo Leadership Charter High School, Animo Inglewood Charter High School, Icon Collective, Stephen S. Wise Temple Elementary School, St. Matthias Elementary School, the Sanford Meisner Center for the Arts. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 22. 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: Ánimo Leadership Charter High School (also known as "Animo, ALCHS, or Animo Leadership") is a public charter school in Inglewood, California, operated by Green Dot Public Schools of Los Angeles. It was the first Green Dot school to be established in 2000. The school currently serves students from Lennox, California and Inglewood, California. It has a current enrollment of 525 students serving grades 9-12. It is located in 1155 West Arbor Vitae St. Inglewood, CA 90301. On August 21, 2000, Animo Leadership became the first Green Dot school to open its doors to a group of 140 pioneering students from the Lennox School District. This school started with one principal, a counselor, and five first-year teachers housed in a temporary school facility- leased law school classrooms at the University of West Los Angeles Law. Animo Leadership's success grew rapidly; it has grown to a full sized school with an enrollment of 520 students. Its first graduating class was extremely successful, graduating 96% of its original 140 students, and sending 62% of its students to a four year university. Animo Leadership has continued to achieve high levels of success s. The school is well known for its academic excellence. The School has been ranked by the U.S. News ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Phi Delta Kappan, published by Phi Delta Kappa, Inc. on September 1, 1996. The length of the article is 1164 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.

From the supplier: O'Farrell Community School in San Diego, CA, aims to prepare its highly diverse student population for high school college-preparatory programs. The charter school's experience is distinguished by its unique structure and close coordination with social service agencies.

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Title: O'Farrell Community School: center for advanced academic studies.(Special Section on Charter Schools)
Author: Bob Stein
Publication: Phi Delta Kappan (Refereed)
Date: September 1, 1996
Publisher: Phi Delta Kappa, Inc.
Volume: v78Issue: n1Page: p28(2)

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A decade ago there were only two charter schools in the United States. Today there are more than 2,400, serving more than half a million students. Charter schools are public schools that are free from many of the regulations that have long governed public education. Supporters include many of the country’s most prominent educators and politicians, among them President George W. Bush, who hope charter schools will reshape education, especially where it proves most challenging—in the inner city. The fact that most charter schools promise smaller classes and more parental involvement makes them immensely appealing to the nation’s most disadvantaged families. Charter school detractors, on the other hand, fear that these alternative schools will irredeemably ruin public education, drawing away the talented students and the most involved parents.

Clearly the stakes are high. But few Americans understand what a charter school really is—or what is involved in trying to create, attend, and teach in one. Written by a renowned journalist and education writer, and a former inner-city school teacher himself, Hard Lessons is the first book to capture the human drama of the entire experience. For three years, Jonathan Schorr was allowed complete access to the students, teachers, and parents of the E.C. Reems Academy in Oakland, California, making him uniquely qualified to tell their fascinating story. But would the new school succeed in effectively teaching children from urban neighborhoods where success is rare? Would it become a whole new bureaucracy or sabotage itself from within? The answers are found in the moving stories of some deeply involved yet very different individuals.

Among them, there is Nazim Casey, Jr.—rescued from his crack-addicted parents, he’s the last-chance child who will put inner-city charters to their ultimate test; William Stewart—a father whose fury at his daughter’s failed public school propels him into activism; Eugene Ruffin—the entrepreneur who helped introduce the personal computer to America, then collaborated with Wal-Mart heir John Walton to “invest” in education; and Valentin Del Rio—a young teacher whose idealism turns to exhaustion and the search for a punctual paycheck.

Through successes and setbacks, Hard Lessons reveals just how difficult it is, even with the best of intentions, to offer a quality education to every child in America. The story of E.C. Reems Academy offers invaluable lessons for anyone interested in America’s most pressing domestic concern. At once harrowing and hopeful, and in the finest tradition of modern nonfiction, Hard Lessons is one of the most important books to come along in decades. ... Read more

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Great Education Story With Lessons Beyond Education
I always like reading about industries unfamiliar to me firsthand because success and obstacles have common threads across industries, and looking from the outside in often gives a perspective that is tough to see when you're waist deep in immediate issues.Jonathan Schorr's Hard Lessons is a play-by-play of Oakland's struggle to open charter schools in the inner city.Told from multiple points of view -- teacher, student, parent, administration -- it's a fascinating story but also a good coaching book.Some lessons from Hard Lessons:

Progress can take a while.Schorr spends time describing the difficult start-up phase before and after the charter schools opened.You can feel how slow and seemingly hopeless the circumstances were.Yet, because we can see the fruits of plowing through the difficulty, we get the benefit (without the interminable wait) of hindsight and the encouragement that we too can prevail if we want something as badly as some of those parents wanted a good education for their kids.

But just because we push doesn't mean we have to rush.Some of the biggest problems came when decisions were rushed -- hiring calls where no references were checked, teachers using an approach without training and therefore digging a deeper hole for themselves.There are numerous examples of haste makes waste here.It reminds us that even when we want to move things forward, we shouldn't push things.

Sometimes you need to reconsider options you earlier might have dismissed.The parents who lobbied so hard against the district schools later aligned themselves with the district when a new administration came in.Great lesson on how we shouldn't be afraid to go back, reassess, and perhaps move in a direction that was not ideal before.Our circumstances change, and we should always adjust for what's best now, even if that means doing something deemed less than ideal before.
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Chapters: Training Center Petaluma, Mountain Shadows Middle School, Guerneville School, Piner Olivet Charter School, Community Day School, Creekside Middle School (Rohnert Park, California), Thomas Page Elementary School, Salmon Creek Middle School. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. 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: Training Center Petaluma is a Coast Guard training facility in the northern California counties of Sonoma and Marin. Approximately 4,000 students train there each year. It was formerly the U.S. Army Two Rock Ranch Station. The training center is located in a rural area north of San Francisco at . It is about 9 mi (14 km) from the coast and 9 mi (14 km) west of the city of Petaluma, California, at the junction of Tomales Road and Valley Ford road, just south of Stemple Creek and the village of Two Rock, California. The facility occupies more than 800 acres (320 ha) of land, which include 129 family housing units and 90 other buildings. It has its own clinic, chapel, fire department, and police. Students at the individual "A" schools receive entry level training in one of these rates: Graduates of these "A" schools are advanced to Petty Officer Third Class and are then assigned to a new duty station. "C" school training is also offered for advanced training in each of these rates. Each of the "A" schools at Training Center Petaluma has Subject Matter Specialists and Course Writers assigned to it for the purpose of developing up to date course materials and instructional aids relative to each rate. These specialists are usually Chief Petty Officers that are very experienced in their rate. Courses developed are used in the field to help enlisted persons learn new skills in their rate. Advancement is dependent in successful completion of these courses and passing grades ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=14546649 ... Read more

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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Palo Alto is a California charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, USA. It is named after a tree called El Palo Alto. The city includes portions of Stanford University and is headquarters to a number of Silicon Valley high-technology companies, including Hewlett-Packard, VMware and Facebook. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 58,598 residents. ... Read more

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Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell, who, with her husband, Lloyd Frizzell, and their four sons, set out on April 14th, of that year, from their unnamed home, not far from Ewington, Effingham County, Illinois, on the upper reaches of the Little Wabash River, on an overland journey to California. The journal records her observations and experiences from the Little Wabash, across Illinois and Missouri, to St. Louis and St. Joseph, and over the St. Joseph and Oregon Trails to the Pacific Springs, in Fremont County, Wyoming. Here, at the continental divide and at the halfway point of her journey, the journal ends, on June 26th, or the seventy-fourth day out. It was nearly seven months later, in her snowbound quarters of the Sierra Nevadas, that she busied herself with its composition from notes she had kept by the way, enlivened by her memory.
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"Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell, who, with her husband, Lloyd Frizzell, and their four sons, set out on April 14th, of that year, from their unnamed home, not far from Ewington, Effingham County, Illinois, on the upper reaches of the Little Wabash River, on an overland journey to California. The journal records her observations and experiences from the Little Wabash, across Illinois and Missouri, to St. Louis and St. Joseph, and over the St. Joseph and Oregon Trails to the Pacific Springs, in Fremont County, Wyoming. Here, at the continental divide and at the halfway point of her journey, the journal ends, on June 26th, or the seventy-fourth day out. It was nearly seven months later, in her snowbound quarters of the Sierra Nevadas, that she busied herself with its composition from notes she had kept by the way, enlivened by her memory. " ... Read more

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"Mrs. Lodisa Frizzell, who, with her husband, Lloyd Frizzell, and their four sons, set out on April 14th, of that year, from their unnamed home, not far from Ewington, Effingham County, Illinois, on the upper reaches of the Little Wabash River, on an overland journey to California. The journal records her observations and experiences from the Little Wabash, across Illinois and Missouri, to St. Louis and St. Joseph, and over the St. Joseph and Oregon Trails to the Pacific Springs, in Fremont County, Wyoming. Here, at the continental divide and at the halfway point of her journey, the journal ends, on June 26th, or the seventy-fourth day out. It was nearly seven months later, in her snowbound quarters of the Sierra Nevadas, that she busied herself with its composition from notes she had kept by the way, enlivened by her memory. " ... Read more