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EARLY
LEARNING
Resources...
"Years
of Promise: A Comprehensive Learning Strategy for America's Children,"
is the most complete
and timely publication on early learning. Published September 16,
1996 by the Carnegie Corporation of New York, this report examines
the problems surroundings 3 to 10 year olds and their education. The
report highlights reform initiatives and makes recommendations to
schools, families, communities and policy makers.
Individual copies of the report are $10.00.
Discounts are available for bulk orders.
To order a copy of the Task Force on Learning in the Primary Grades
report, write to:
Carnegie Corporation of New York
P.O. Box 753
Waldorf, MD 20604
or fax order to:
(301) 843-0159
or E-mail order to:
ccny@tasco.com
Executive summaries are complementary and can be ordered by contacting
the Publications Office at the Carnegie Corporation of New York.
(212) 371-3200
Or write to Publications Office,
Carnegie Corporation of New York,
437 Madison Avenue,
New York, NY 10022.
Books:
"Preventing Early School Failure: Research, Policy and Practice"
Robert E. Slavin, Nancy L. Karweit and Barbara A. Wasik, editors.
Allyn and Bacon, Boston, MA; 1994
"The Moral Dimensions of Teaching"
John
I. Goodlad, Roger Soder and Kenneth A. Sirotnik, editors.
Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco, CA; 1990
"School Power"
James P. Comer, M.D.
The Free Press; New York, 1993
"Beginning to Read: Thinking and Learning About Print"
Marilyn Jager Adams
MIT Press: Cambridge, MA; 1995
"The Learning Gap: Why Our Schools are Failing and What We Can
Learn from Japenese and Chinese Education"
Harold W. Stevenson & James
W. Stigler
A Touchstone Book; Simon & Schuster, NY; 1992
"Accelerated Schools in Action: Lessons from the Field"
Christine Finnan, Edward P. St. John, Jane McCarthy & Simeon P.
Slovacek, Editors
Corwin Press Inc., Tousand Oaks, CA; 1996
"Journal of Education for Students Placed At Risk" Sam Strinfield
& John Hollifield, Editors
Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, NJ; 1996 |
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