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What I Learned in School : Reflections on Race, Child Development, and School Reform

ISBN: 9780470407714 | 0470407719
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: 10/12/2009

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SummaryTable of ContentsAuthor Biography
From the Winner of theGrawemeyer Award in Education in 2007"In the world of education reform, where silver-bullet ideas, ideologies, and intellectual fashion clamor for influence, James Comer's thinking has long been a sea of calm, balanced, and humane wisdom focused on the needs of the whole person. Reading Comer you see the incompleteness of so many other approaches to reform, as well as learn an integrated approach to making schools work. And now, here it all is in a single book. If you want to see how schools can actually work, as opposed t... MORE
Introduction: What I Learned in Schoolp. ix
Introductory Remarks at the Grawemeyer Award Ceremonyp. xvii
Address at the Grawemeyer Award Ceremonyp. 1
Washington Elementary School Maggie's American Dreamp. 23
Me, Walter, and America Beyond Black and Whitep. 31
Three Networks and a Baby Waiting for a Miraclep. 63
So You Want to Work in Schools? Maggie's American Dreamp.... MORE
My Work Waiting for a Miraclep. 95
To Leave no Child Behind Leave no Child Behindp. 127
All Our Children Maggie's American Dreamp. 155
Questions for Reflectionp. 157
Indexp. 159
Credit Linesp. 165
The Authorp. 167
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James P. Comer is the Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry at the Yale University School of Medicine's Child Study Center and founder of the Comer School Development Program. A prolific writer, Dr. Comer is the author of nine books and has written articles for Parents magazine as well as syndicated articles on children's health and development and race relations. In 2007, he received the Grawemeyer Award in education.



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