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Milken Educator Awards Brochure 2009
2009
A publication of the Milken Family Foundation National Educator Awards
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Milken Family Foundation Overview Brochure
2007
A full-color brochure describing the Milken Family Foundation, with full-page photos and text.
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Improving Student Achievement: Reforms that Work
by Lewis C. Solmon, Kimberly Firetag Agam and Tamara W. Schiff, The Milken Family Foundation (Editors)
2005 PLEASE NOTE: This publication is not available for free download. You may purchase this publication at www.infoagepub.com/www/products/ product1/Milken.htm.
Improving Student Achievement: Reforms that Work expands on the first volume in the Milken Family Foundation series on education policy, Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement. The series explains to policymakers, parents, business leaders, and teachers the importance of teacher quality in increasing student achievement. This volume is based primarily on the proceedings from the 2004 Milken National Education Conference (NEC), which was held in Washington, D.C., in May 2004.
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Talented Teachers: The Essential Force for Improving Student Achievement - A Volume in The Milken Family Foundation Series on Education Policy
by Lewis C. Solmon, Tamara W. Schiff, The Milken Family Foundation (Editors)
2005 PLEASE NOTE: Only one chapter of this publication is available for free download. To purchase the entire book, go to www.infoagepub.com/www/ products/product1/Milken.htm.
This highly influential group of scholars and policy makers explain to parents, business leaders, and teachers themselves the importance of talented teachers in increasing student achievement. The volume is based on the proceedings of the 2003 Milken National Education Conference (NEC), which was held in Los Angeles in May 2003.
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A Teacher's Resource to The Children of Willesden Lane
by Facing History and Ourselves/Milken Family Foundation
7/30/03
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Teachers' Professional Lives - A View from Nine Industrialized Countries
by Carol F. Stoel and Tin-Swe Thant
04/10/2002 This report, compiled by the Schools Around the World (SAW) program of the Council for Basic Education (CBE) and funded by the Milken Family Foundation, examines how the professional in-service training, requirements and responsibilities of American K-12 teachers outweigh those of teachers in many developed nations.
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The Read to Achieve Summer Literacy Day Camp: A 21st Century Community Learning Center Grant Proposal
by John Schacter, Ph.D.
08/22/2001 This grant proposal by Dr. John Schacter, senior research associate at the Milken Family Foundation, outlines a summer literacy day camp program for disadvantaged first-graders originally funded by the Foundation. This proposal resulted in a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Education's 21st Century Community Learning Centers program to operate the camp for three years, beginning in the summer of 2001.
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Reducing Social Inequality in Elementary School Reading Achievement: Establishing Summer Literacy Day Camps for Disadvantaged Children
by John Schacter, Ph.D.
03/27/2001 This study by Dr. John Schacter, senior research associate at the Milken Family Foundation, concludes that summer literacy day camps for disadvantaged children can significantly reduce social inequality in elementary school reading achievement.
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Reading Programs That Work
by Dr. John Schacter
10/25/99 This 72-page publication examines effective programs for helping Pre-K through 4th graders learn to read as well as research behind why certain children fail to read at the same time as their peers.
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For Ourselves and Our Posterity
by Lowell Milken, Chairman and Co-Founder of the Milken Family Foundation
6/26/97 For Ourselves and Our Posterity
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