School Power Implications of an Intervention Project

Name: School Power Implications of an Intervention Project
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ISBN: 9780029065501

ISBN-10: 002906550X

ISBN-13: 9780029065501

Edition: 1980

Authors: James P. Comer, Albert J. Solnit, Samuel Nash

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First published in 1980 and now considered a classic, School Power was the first book to demonstrate the positive effect of applying powerful psychological, social, and institutional forces on the performance of administrators, teachers, parents, and students. It shows how a university, a public school system, and parents worked together to move problem schools to an exceptional level of social and academic achievement. Now, reissued with a new preface and epilogue and a foreword by Marian Wright Edelman, School Power describes in detail the way that educators can use the knowledge of social and behavioral science, and education to overcome poor motivation, low self-esteem, discipline…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 1980
Publisher: Free Press
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 285
Weight: 1.804
Language: English



Foreword


Preface


Introduction


Things Have Changed


School Power


New Haven, New Haven


The School Program


Scenario for a Disaster


Up from Chaos


The Mental Health Program


The Parent Program


Teachers, Teaching, and Curriculum


Innovations


Update


Sharing Expertise


Program Implications, Replications, and Applications


Pre-service and In-service Education


Epilogue: 1980-1992


Notes


Index