School power
Subtitle: implications of an intervention project
By: James P. Comer ; introd. by Albert J. Solnit and Samuel Nash.
Publisher: Free Press; Collier Macmillan
Published: 1980
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 285
Subjects: Yale University. Child Study Center; Education, Urban -- Connecticut -- New Haven; Community and school -- Connecticut -- New Haven; Motivation in education; Public schools -- Connecticut -- New Haven
Description: First published in 1980 and now considered a classic, " School Power" was the first book to demonstrate the positive effect of applying powerful psychological, social, and institutional forces on the performance of administrators, teachers, parents, and students. It shows how a university, a public school system, and parents worked together to move problem schools to an exceptional level of social and academic achievement. Now, reissued with a new preface and epilogue and a foreword by Marian Wright Edelman, "School Power" describes in detail the way that educators can use the knowledge of social and behavioral science, and education to overcome poor motivation, low self-esteem, discipline problems, and serious learning disabilities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.