Sentences with phrase «improbable scholars»

Union City, New Jersey, as chronicled in David Kirp's book, «Improbable Scholars,» is a similar district - grown success story.

Analyses of his successful leadership are featured in several books: Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools (Kirp, 2013); Team Turnarounds (Frontiera and Leidl, 2012) and Respect (Kwalwasser, 2012)-- and the early childhood education initiatives Dr. Weast led in Montgomery County are discussed in the book Building Blocks, (Maerhoff, 2006).

Berkeley's David Kirp dug deep into how and why early education worked in Union City, N.J. Kirp explained in Improbable Scholars that Union City used those research - based, early education reforms to turn around a school system that had been one of New Jersey's worst.

Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools By David L. Kirp Oxford University Press, 2013, $ 24.95; 272 pages

Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools

Kirp examines Union City's strategies in his latest book, Improbable Scholars: The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools.

Not exact matches

Some scholars even think that the Zoroastrians borrowed apocalyptic ideas from the Jews, and, while this is improbable, it is also improbable that the Jews came by their ideas merely by grace of Zoroastrian influence.

Columbus: In this drama about the unique friendship between a young woman (Haley Lu Richardson) and the son of an architecture scholar (John Cho) in the improbable architectural mecca of Columbus, Ind., video essayist Kogonada lovingly captures the distinctive buildings themselves, but is even better at understanding those places as they affect people.