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The Power To Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning And Schooling To Life, Stephanie Pace Marshall
The Power To Transform: Leadership That Brings Learning And Schooling To Life, Stephanie Pace Marshall
Stephanie Pace Marshall, Ph.D.
The Power to Transform is a call to re-conceive and re-design schooling. Rather than offer “best practices” or “prescriptive solutions,” it invites leaders of all ages and walks of life to think differently about learning and schooling. It illuminates the “why” and “what” of educational transformation and explores its deepest roots. It offers new language, new design principles, a new framework, and a new map for creating vibrant, imaginative and adaptive learning landscapes that integrate the dynamic properties of living systems with the generative principles of learning. It is from this natural integration that the new story of learning and …
A Comparative Analysis Of Family Structure And The Academic Achievement Level Of African American Students In Selected North Carolina Schools, Mary Ferguson
Mary J. Ferguson, Ed. D.
The purpose of this study was to determine whether there was a difference between the family structure and academic achievement of African American students attending rural and urban schools in North Carolina. The purpose was also to analyze how family structure and the academic achievement scores of ninth grade African American male and African American female students who attend a rural and urban high school in North Carolina. Finally, the purpose was to determine whether there was a significant difference between family structure, academic achievement and gender of African American rural and urban high school students.