Benjamin Levin: 4 books
More High School Graduates
How Schools Can Save Students From Dropping Out
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2011
A proven system to boost high school graduation rates
This guide helps school leaders and government policymakers boost high school graduation rates. Drawing from his knowledge as an education official and professor, author Ben Levin presents a system to turn around secondary schools that is...
Making a Difference in Urban Schools
Ideas, Politics, and Pedagogy
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
What can be done to improve the educational experiences of students who live in cities with increasingly high levels of diversity and inequality? Making a Difference in Urban Schools evaluates how school and community leaders have worked to change urban education in Canada for the better over the...
Reforming Education
From Origins to Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2004
Ambitious programs of education reform have been introduced by many governments around the world. Reforming Education is an important study of large-scale education reform in five different settings: England, New Zealand, the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Manitoba and the US state of Minnesota....
This Crown Is Mine
History of Pretenders for the Crown, Civil War, and Foreign Invasion in Seventeenth-Century Russia
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2012
In the early 17th century, Russia went through a foreign invasion and the nations first civil war a time so horrible that it acquired its own name in Russian history: The Times of Troubles. Internal and external forces came together to create a storm of such magnitude that it threatened the very existence...