Carol Corbett Burris, Delia T. Garrity

Broschiertes Buch

Opening the Common Core

How to Bring ALL Students to College and Career Readiness

Beschreibung

Open the door to success with the CCSS This book shows how to leverage the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) to equip all students-not just high achievers-for college and career. The authors helped lead their district in closing achievement gaps and increasing the number of students who completed four-year college programs. The results of their efforts show a remarkable increase in both excellence and equity in the content areas due to applying the authors' research-based ACES framework: Acceleration rather than remediation Critical thinking Equity in education for all students Support Educators will find practical strategies that are applied and developed in model lessons linked to the CCSS and KSUS standards.

Autor

Carol Corbett Burris has served as principal of South Side High School in New York¿s Rockville Centre School District since 2000. Prior to becoming a principal, she was a teacher at both the middle and high school level. She received her doctorate from Teachers College, Columbia University, and her dissertation, which studied her district's detracking reform in math, received the 2003 National Association of Secondary Schools' Principals Middle Level Dissertation of the Year Award. In 2010, she was named The New York State Outstanding Educator by School Administrators Association of New York State. She is the co-author, with Delia Garrity, of Detracking for Excellence and Equity. Articles that she has authored or co-authored have appeared in Educational Leadership, The Kappan, the American Educational Research Journal, The Teachers College Record, Theory into Practice, The School Administrator, the American School Board Journal and EdWeek. A chapter on closing the achievement gap, which she co-authored with Kevin Welner, appeared in Lessons in Integration: Realizing the Promise of Racial Diversity in Americäs Schools, a volume edited by the Harvard Civil Rights Project.  

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Corwin
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. März 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 373g
• ISBN-13: 9781452226231
• ISBN-10: 1452226237
• Artikelnr.: 34464385