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Pamela Cross Young
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BIOGRAPHY Assistant Professor and Director of Accreditation, School of Education and Health Sciences, University of Dayton. Her contributions to SAGE Publications's Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent (2010) formed the basis of her contributions to Britannica.
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James Comer is an American child psychiatrist and founder of the Comer School Development Program, a school reform process meant to improve students’ psychological and academic development, especially in underprivileged communities. Comer was born into a working-class family. He earned a bachelor’s…
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Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent
Encyclopedia of Educational Reform and Dissent (January 2010)
For a free 30-day online trial to this title, visit www.sagepub.com/freetrialEducational reform, and to a lesser extent educational dissent, occupy a prominent place in the annals of U.S. education. Whether based on religious, cultural, social, philosophical, or pedagogical grounds, they are ever-present in our educational history. Although some reforms have been presented as a remedy for society′s ills, most programs were aimed toward practical transformation of the existing system to...
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