Ken Barber: 4 books

Book cover of Face the Wind

Face the Wind

An Exceptional American Story

by Ken Barber
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013

Book cover of Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education

Innovative and Successful Practices for the Twenty-first Century

by Liz Barber, Harriet J. Bessette, Tasha Bleistein
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2011

This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break...
Book cover of The Myths of Standardized Tests

The Myths of Standardized Tests

Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do

by Bruce M. Smith, Joan Harris, Larry Barber
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011

Pundits, politicians, and business leaders continually make claims for what standardized tests can do, and those claims go largely unchallenged because they are in line with popular assumptions about what these tests can do, what the scores mean, and the psychology of human motivation. But what most...
Book cover of Afrofuturism 2.0

Afrofuturism 2.0

The Rise of Astro-Blackness

by Esther Jones, Nettrice Gaskins, Lonny Avi Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2015

The ideas and practices related to afrofuturism have existed for most of the 20th century, especially in the north American African diaspora community. After Mark Dery coined the word "afrofuturism" in 1993, Alondra Nelson as a member of an online forum, along with other participants, began...
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