R L Education: 708 books
Reinventing Schools
It’s Time to Break the Mold
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Since A Nation at Risk was published in 1983, there has been widespread recognition that public education is failing in the U.S. Numerous expensive reforms have been attempted to no avail, and costs have increased dramatically. Furthermore, economic austerity requires educational systems to do more...
Solutions
Tools and Strategies for Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2002
This easy-to-read book integrates research and performance-based concepts in order to demystify and debunk the conventional wisdom about education. For many years, education has been beset by myths — myths that it can't be fixed with new concepts, that it takes specialists to diagnose what's wrong,...
Creating a Culture for High-Performing Schools
A Comprehensive Approach to School Reform and Dropout Prevention
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
A high-performing school is described as one where student achievement is high and student and teacher absenteeism is low. Student behavior is such that teachers seldom have to control them or tell them what to do. This results in greater time on task, higher teacher morale, low teacher absenteeism,...
by John R. Hoyle, Betty Steffy, Fenwick W. English
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1998
Skills for Successful 21st Century School Leaders provides a complete overview of the knowledge base and skills for successful school leaders. The publication is based on the standards developed by AASA, ISLLC, NPBEA, NCATE, and state education agencies.
Culture, Relevance, and Schooling
Exploring Uncommon Ground
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2011
In Culture, Relevance, and Schooling: Exploring Uncommon Ground, Lisa Scherff, Karen Spector, and the contributing authors conceive of culturally relevant and critically minded pedagogies in terms of opening up new spatial, discursive, and/or embodied learning terrains. Readers will traverse multiple...
Educational Change
From Traditional Education to Learning Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
Educational Change: From Traditional Education to Learning Communities outlines the transition of curriculum and instruction as well as classroom discipline historically. Various discipline approaches are described that vary in their applications in terms of the degree of teacher control and student...
Religion in the Public Schools
Negotiating the New Commons
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2013
Since September 11, 2001, the profile of religion's role in our global society has increased significantly. Religion has long been a force in people's lives as numerous studies and polls show, yet we continue to struggle with understanding differing religious traditions and what they mean for our...
Raising African-American Males
Strategies and Interventions for Successful Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Raising African American Males is comprised of strategies and interventions that can assist and improve African American males' achievement in all areas of academics as well as in their everyday lives. Theresa Harris and George Taylor provide pedagogical strategies that employ various instructional...
How to Finish and Defend Your Dissertation
Strategies to Complete the Professional Practice Doctorate
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
This CHOICE award winning author has teamed up with a Chair of the Department of Research at Concordia University Chicago to write a comprehensive book on finishing and defending a dissertation. A first of its kind, this book provides you everything you need to know about successfully passing the...
Standing and Delivering
What the Movie Didn't Tell
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2010
We often hear about the need to make demands on all students, especially those of color, of different cultural backgrounds, and from low income families. A lot of educators talk the talk, but only a few have actually walked the walk. One of the few American schools that actually made substantial strides...
The Purposes, Practices, and Professionalism of Teacher Reflectivity
Insights for Twenty-First-Century Teachers and Students
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2010
Very little information about the impact of reflection on teacher performance, teacher retention, and student learning is available in teacher preparation programs. This book provides practical and research-based chapters that offer greater clarity about the particular kinds of reflection that matter...
Education's Missing Ingredient
What Parents Can Tell Educators
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
This book takes on the issues of our failures from the dangers associated with a lack of classroom discipline to the failings of the people to recognize and defend their schools from an overstepping federal government. This book clarifies the answers to our education system's woes and our republic's...
Schooling Poor Minority Children
New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2011
Schooling Poor Minority Children: New Segregation in the Post-Brown Era explores the 'redesign of school segregation' and explains why resegregation of schools in the post-Brown era is so destructive for poor minority students. The book provides an answer to why schools that serve predominately poor...
Developing Arts Loving Readers
Top Ten Questions Teachers are Asking about Integrated Arts Education
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2002
Developing Arts Loving Readers is based on the premise that children can and do learn a great deal about the arts and their own abilities innately. Involvement and immersion author Nan. L. McDonald argues, are the ways in which children may feel welcome to write, move, create, draw, and otherwise...