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Reconnecting education and foundations : turning good intentions into educational capital / Ray Bacchetti and Thomas Ehrlich, editors.

Contributor(s): Publication details: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2007.Description: xxii, 503 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9780787988180 (cloth)
  • 0787988189 (cloth)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 371.206 REC
Contents:
Part one: Introduction-recommendations-history - 1. Foundations and education: introduction - 2. Recommendations : building educational capital - 3. What might Andrew Carnegie want to tell Bill Gates? Reflections on the hundredth anniversary of the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching -- Part two: K-12 foundations - 4. Increasing foundation impact by building educational capital - 5. Foundations and school reform: bridging the cultural divide - 6. When reach exceeds grasp: taking the Annenberg challenge to scale - 7. Building capacity for school improvement - 8. The national writing project: commitment and competence -- Part three: Higher Education and foundations: 9. Patron or bully? the role of foundations in higher education - 10. Many motives, mixed reviews: foundations and higher education as a relationship richer in possibilities than results - 11. Working through intermediaries: the New Jersey campus diversity initiative - 12. From idea to protype; the peer review of teaching - 13. Addressing failure: the case of the commission on social studies -- Part four: Cross-cutting topics - 14. Education and the conservative foundations - 15. Robin Hood with a difference: operating foundations and universities and schools - Appendix A: Going for the gold in undergraduate education - Appendix B: Selected data on foundation grants and total educational expenditures - Name index - Subject index.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part one: Introduction-recommendations-history - 1. Foundations and education: introduction - 2. Recommendations : building educational capital - 3. What might Andrew Carnegie want to tell Bill Gates? Reflections on the hundredth anniversary of the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching -- Part two: K-12 foundations - 4. Increasing foundation impact by building educational capital - 5. Foundations and school reform: bridging the cultural divide - 6. When reach exceeds grasp: taking the Annenberg challenge to scale - 7. Building capacity for school improvement - 8. The national writing project: commitment and competence -- Part three: Higher Education and foundations: 9. Patron or bully? the role of foundations in higher education - 10. Many motives, mixed reviews: foundations and higher education as a relationship richer in possibilities than results - 11. Working through intermediaries: the New Jersey campus diversity initiative - 12. From idea to protype; the peer review of teaching - 13. Addressing failure: the case of the commission on social studies -- Part four: Cross-cutting topics - 14. Education and the conservative foundations - 15. Robin Hood with a difference: operating foundations and universities and schools - Appendix A: Going for the gold in undergraduate education - Appendix B: Selected data on foundation grants and total educational expenditures - Name index - Subject index.