School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

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.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Comer, James P.

Psychology & Counseling

Free Press

Analyzes current government social policies and recommends programs designed to increase employment, improve integration, decrease income inequality, and encourage a sense of community

Common Decency: Domestic Policies After Reagan

Yale Univ Pr

Maggie's American Dream : The Life and Times of a Black Family

This family success story centers on Maggie Comer, an unskilled, illiterate Black woman who rose from abject poverty in the rural South to become the mother of five college-educated children

Maggie's American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family

Biographies & Memoirs

Community & Culture

Plume

Two of America's most trusted and respected authorities on child care provide answers to nearly 1000 questions on the problem of raising African-American children. Along with the traditional demands of parenthood, today’s parents must grapple with such daunting issues as drugs, AIDS, violence, and educational pressures. But black parents face an even more challenging task: they must actively combat negative messages of racism while teaching their children to succeed in a white-dominated culture. In this thorough guide to parenting, two noted child psychiatrists, both African-American, focus on the special concerns of black parents. They offer comprehensive advice on nearly 1,000 common childrearing questions, paying particular attention to such problems as building self-esteem and helping black children cope with the often unconscious racism and microaggressions of white society. Authoritative and comprehensive, Raising Black Children is an indispensable resource for every African-American family and for teachers of all races who seek to gain sensitivity to the needs of their black pupils. “A necessary addition to all parenting and parent-teacher collections.”—Linda Cullum, Library Journal

Raising Black Children: Two Leading Psychiatrists Confront the Educational, Social and Emotional Problems Facing Black Children

Politics & Social Sciences

Poussaint, Alvin F.

Social Sciences

Penguin Publishing Group

The director of the Yale University Child Study Center attributes the deterioration of public schools to a lack of community-mindedness, family decay, and racism

Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems-- and How We Can

Maggie's American Dream

New American Library

Fighting obstacles such as racism, oppression, poverty and World War II, Maggie Comer made certain her children had the opportunity to live the American Dream she never could have. 2 cassettes.

HighBridge Audio

From the Winner of the Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2007 
"In the world of education reform, where silver-bullet ideas, ideologies, and intellectual fashion clamor for influence, James Comer's thinking has long been a sea of calm, balanced, and humane wisdom focused on the needs of the whole person. Reading Comer you see the incompleteness of so many other approaches to reform, as well as learn an integrated approach to making schools work. And now, here it all is in a single book. If you want to see how schools can actually work, as opposed to affiliate with a prior belief about how they should work, this is a must read." —Claude Steele,professor, the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University "The best introduction?professional and personal—to the remarkable world of James Comer: physician-educator, par excellence." —Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts "James Comer is a rare constellation among social scientists: a great intellect, a keen analyst, a creative problem-solver and a man of enormous empathy. His writings are required reading for anyone interested in education reform or improving the odds for poor children." —Geoffrey Canada, president and CEO, Harlem Children's Zone

What I Learned in School: Reflections on Race, Child Development, and School Reform

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

The director of the Yale University Child Study Center and co-author of Raising Black Children attributes the deterioration of public schools to a lack of community-mindedness, family decay, and racism. 17,500 first printing. Tour.

Waiting for a Miracle: Schools Are Not the Problem

Dutton Adult

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Books by Comer, James P.

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School Power: Implications of an Intervention Project

Common Decency: Domestic Policies After Reagan

Maggie's American Dream: The Life and Times of a Black Family

Raising Black Children: Two Leading Psychiatrists Confront the Educational, Social and Emotional Problems Facing Black Children

Waiting for a Miracle: Why Schools Can't Solve Our Problems-- and How We Can

Maggie's American Dream

Maggie's American Dream

What I Learned in School: Reflections on Race, Child Development, and School Reform

Waiting for a Miracle: Schools Are Not the Problem