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Legal Problems of Religious and Private Schools

October 26th, 2009 admin No comments

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This fourth edition by Dr. Mawdsley will assist teachers and administrators in recognizing legal problems and in developing preventive strategies to resolve those problems before they go to court. In the two decades since his first edition was published, legal problems facing religious and private schools have undergone many changes, and the amount of litigation has increased significantly.

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Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South: Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt

October 22nd, 2009 admin No comments

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After World War II, elite private universities in the South faced growing calls for desegregation. Though, unlike at their peer public institutions, no federal court ordered these schools to admit black students and no troops arrived to protect access to the schools, to suggest that desegregation at these universities took place voluntarily would be misleading In Desegregating Private Higher Education in the South, Melissa Kean explores how leaders at five of the region’s most prestigious private universities–Duke, Emory, Rice, Tulane, and Vanderbilt–sought to strengthen their national position and reputation while simultaneously answering the increasing pressure to end segregation. To join the upper echelon of U. S. universitie

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Review by Bob Pando
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“Harvard is the Emory of the North,” said Atlanta boosters in the period following World War II. But it wasn’t true, and Harvard was not the Duke of the North, either. The presidents and faculties of five elite southern schools – Duke, Emory, Tulane, Rice and Vanderbilt – knew their institutions were inferior, by orders of magnitude, to the Ivies, Stanford and the University of Chicago. Morally and pragmatically, segregation stood in the way of advancing their schools. To become a research university and to mount competitive graduate programs required outside funding, principally from large national philanthropic foundations and from the federal government. But such funding sources as the Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller organizations began to attach a string to their largesse – abandonment of Jim Crow restrictions on race. And beginning with Truman, each succeeding federal administration increasingly pressured the private schools to end segregation voluntarily or risk losing grants and other major sources of funds.

University trustees manned the barricades, barring transformation of the institutions. Uniformly well-fed, white, and backward-facing, these worthies dedicated their tenure to the maintenance of racism in their beloved schools. Melissa Kean avoids an “inside baseball” study of the five universities. Instead, she offers a well-written, fast-paced account of the faceted conflicts between the academicians and their well-intentioned superiors. University presidents, sometimes aided by a conservative but practical trustee, became whitewater guides, steering through political rocks and hazards. Readers know the outcome of the struggles, and Kean gives us a thoughtful and absorbing account of how it happened.

Review by Jon L. Albee
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This book is exactly what the title says it is, told from the perspective of the wealthy and influential white men who ultimately gave in. While it’s a truly exceptional chronicling of how these universities dealt with their respective trustees during the period, there’s actually rather little about the African-Americans who form the locus of the story. This book is really about how conservative white men gave into the financial pressures and ultimatums of northern philanthropists, court orders, and the threat of further loss of academic prestige than about some great moral transformation that took place at the universities in question. Understanding the thesis, you’ll love this book. If you’re looking for a moral statement about civil rights, this book will disappoint you.

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October 21st, 2009 admin No comments

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The Privatization of State Education: Public Partners, Private Dealings

October 18th, 2009 admin No comments

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Overcoming barriers to learning and raising standards of achievement are central efforts in education. In the UK the government has made education its leading domestic priority and it has made education the center of its drive to improve public services by using the private sector to bring about improvements in performance and to break the status quo. Likewise, throughout the world private interests are now impinging heavily upon how state education is perceived; the ‘educational apartheid’ between state and private is diminishing across schools and local authorities. This book provides an incisive commentary on this rapidly changing phenomenon through clarification, analysis and evaluation of a variety of policy initiatives and implementat

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Social Entrepreneurship in Education: Private Ventures for the Public Good (New Frontiers in Education)

October 14th, 2009 admin No comments

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The purpose of this book is to share with the reader a unique experience of a seasoned career entrepreneur with the commitment to improve education and benefited by working with three highly regarded business and education leaders as mentors set out to define and build an education industry.

Social Entrepreneurship in Education: Private Ventures for the Public Good (New Frontiers in Education)” Reviews:

Review by Larisa Schelkin, CEO & Co-Founder, DOME Foundation
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An outstanding book! I read it non-stop, from cover to cover! This book is a must-read for anyone who is interested in improving education in the US and around the world. I would strongly recommend it not only for professional educators and social entrepreneurs in education, but for our legislators, policy-makers, corporate philanthropists, professionals in engineering and science, graduate students, parents, K-12 educators, academia faculty and administration; and all my colleagues from around the world. I would recommend translating this book into a number of languages – this would be a great gift to our global community. This book would help enhancing our global efforts and international dialog on the aforementioned issues.

Review by Susan S. Brennan
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As a Career Services Director in higher education, I consider Social Entrepreneurship in Education required reading for any student interested in exploring opportunities in the for-profit sector of education. I will recommend it to students and faculty alike.

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