Improving the odds : developing powerful teaching practice and a culture of learning in urban high schools

"A counterpoint to the sweeping rhetoric of reform, this book offers a nuanced depiction of the challenges and possibilities at the school and class-room level. Through the experiences of urban high school teachers who partner with their local university, Del Prete provides unique insight into...

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Main Author: Del Prete, Thomas (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Teachers College , c2010
Series:The series on school reform
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245 1 0 |a Improving the odds :   |b developing powerful teaching practice and a culture of learning in urban high schools   |c Thomas Del Prete ; foreword by Ann Lieberman 
260 |a New York :   |b Teachers College ,   |c c2010 
300 |a xii, 177 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 23 cm. 
490 1 |a The series on school reform 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references and index 
505 0 |a 1. Framing reform -- 2. Constancy and change in main south high schools -- 3. The teachers, shared concepts and collaborative learning -- 4. Everyone has a seat at the table: Kate Shepard's mathematics learning community -- 5. Adelina Zaimi's Dilemma: calculating the slope of learning -- 6. Jody Bird and the cology of curriculum and teaching -- 7. Putting inquiry into practice: Chris Rea and investigating harmonic motion -- 8. Chad Malone and the muse of authenticity -- 9. Making more from less: ways of knowing history -- 10. Lessons from main south 
520 |a "A counterpoint to the sweeping rhetoric of reform, this book offers a nuanced depiction of the challenges and possibilities at the school and class-room level. Through the experiences of urban high school teachers who partner with their local university, Del Prete provides unique insight into teaching and learning in the midst of reform."--BOOK JACKET 
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650 0 |a Educational change   |z Massachusetts   |z Worcester   |v Case studies 
650 0 |a High schools   |z Massachusetts   |z Worcester   |v Case studies 
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