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Author: Elliot Washor
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Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates

In this provocative book, authors Washor and Mojkowski observe that beneath the worrisome levels of dropouts from our nation's high school lurks a more insidious problem: student disengagement from school and from deep and productive learning. Download Leaving to Learn: How Out-of-School Learning Increases Student Engagement and Reduces Dropout Rates from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. To keep students in school and engaged as productive learners through to graduation, schools must provide experiences in which all students do some of their learning outside school as a formal part of their programs of study. All students need to leave school-frequently, regularly, and, of course, temporarily-to stay in school and persist in their learning. To accomplish this, schools must combine academic learning with experiential learning, allowing students to bring real-world learning back into Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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