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Accent On Student Success: Engaged Together For Service (Assets) Initiative, Three Year Report, Christine M. Cress
Accent On Student Success: Engaged Together For Service (Assets) Initiative, Three Year Report, Christine M. Cress
Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations
This report is the culmination of three years of data (of a three year grant project, 2006-2009) involving community college campuses who received funding from the Community College National Center for Community Engagement (CCNCCE) through a Learn and Serve America Higher Education grant as part of the Corporation for National and Community Service in an effort to expand the field of service-learning and civic engagement in diverse communities nationwide. The CCNCCE Accent on Student Success: Engaged Together for Service (ASSETS) grant intended to develop an intergenerational approach of service through projects that incorporated baby boomers, K-12, and community college students; …
The Pedagogy Of Oppression: A Brief Look At The ‘No Child Left Behind’ (Chinese Translation), Ramin Farahmandpur, Peter Mclaren
The Pedagogy Of Oppression: A Brief Look At The ‘No Child Left Behind’ (Chinese Translation), Ramin Farahmandpur, Peter Mclaren
Educational Leadership and Policy Faculty Publications and Presentations
NOTICE: This article is in Chinese
The driving forces behind the recent educational policies of the No Child Left Behind Act passed in 2001 are neoliberal social and economic policies that favour outsourcing and downsizing methods of production in the name of flexibility and efficiency. Under the neoliberal economic model, schools must perform similarly to corporate entities. Just as the Dow Jones stock indices measure the performance of companies and represent the pulse of Wall Street, so too the Adequate Yearly Progress Report (AYP) measures and ranks the performance of public schools. One of the most pernicious results of the …