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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In Cracks in the Schoolyard, Conchas challenges deficit models of schooling and turns school failure on its head. Going beyond presenting critical case studies of social inequality and education, this book features achievement cases that depict Latinos as active actors—not hopeless victims—in...
How to Innovate
The Essential Guide for Fearless School Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As the authors state, “Without rethinking how, what, when, where, and why we are teaching, technology will merely be an expensive way of making the existing system faster and flashier.” In How to Innovate, Mary Moss Brown and Alisa Berger—founding co-principals of the NYC iSchool—applytheir...
Reading, Thinking, and Writing About History
Teaching Argument Writing to Diverse Learners in the Common Core Classroom, Grades 6-12
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Although the Common Core and C3 Framework highlight literacy and inquiry as central goals for social studies, they do not offer guidelines, assessments, or curriculum resources. This practical guide presents six research-tested historical investigations along with all corresponding teaching materials...
Interviewing as Qualitative Research
A Guide for Researchers in Education and the Social Sciences, 4th Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now in its fourth edition, this popular book provides clear, step-by-step guidance for new and experienced interviewers to develop, shape, and reflect on interviewing as a qualitative research process. Using concrete examples of interviewing techniques to illustrate the issues under discussion, this...
by George Theoharis, Jeffrey S. Brooks
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is a critical instructional leadership resource for new and veteran principals who want to see all students succeed. Key scholars show how to put into practice a commitment to equity and excellence across the Pre-K–12 spectrum. Readers learn directly from experts in each of the content...
Schooling Hip-Hop
Expanding Hip-Hop Based Education Across the Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book brings together veteran and emerging scholars from a variety of fields to chart new territory for hip-hop based education. Looking beyond rap music and the English language arts classroom, innovative chapters unpack the theory and practice of hip-hop based education in science, social studies,...
Americans by Heart
Undocumented Latino Students and the Promise of Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Americans by Heart examines the plight of undocumented Latino students as they navigate the educational and legal tightrope presented by their immigration status. Many of these students are accepted to attend some of our best colleges and universities but cannot afford the tuition to do so because...
Sex, Death, and the Education of Children
Our Passion for Ignorance in the Age of AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“Silin shows us how we culture ignorance in children and in each other by refusing to hear and respond to what they and we already know.”
—From the Foreword by Madeleine Grumet
“This book is not for the meek, because it talks straight from the heart—and from an educated and serious...
Failing at School
Lessons for Redesigning Urban High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Roughly half of all incoming ninth graders across urban districts will fail classes and drop out of school without a diploma. Failing at School starts with the premise that urban American high schools generate such widespread student failure not because of some fault of the students who attend them...
The Price They Paid
Desegregation in an African American Community
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this compelling book, the authors put a human face on desegregation practices in the South. Focusing on an African American community in Alabama, they document not only the gains but also the significant losses experienced by students when their community school was closed and they were forced...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this much-needed volume, Nel Noddings uses her extensive experience at every level of schooling to challenge the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). Noddings invites readers to think critically about the ideas underlying NCLB, the reform movement that shaped it, and the processes it has put into play....
Beyond Smarter
Mediated Learning and the Brain's Capacity for Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Originally developed to help students overcome learning obstacles created by emotional trauma or neurobiological learning disabilities, Reuven Feuerstein’s work is now used in major cities around the world to support improved thinking and learning by all students. This book is the most up-to-date...
A Search Past Silence
The Literacy of Young Black Men
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This beautifully written book argues that educators need to understand the social worlds and complex literacy practices of African-American males in order to pay the increasing educational debt we owe all youth and break the school-to-prison pipeline. Moving portraits from the lives of six friends...
Education Research in the Public Interest
Social Justice, Action, and Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Acclaimed African American scholar and teacher educator Gloria Ladson-Billings examines the field of teacher education through the accomplishments and contributions of well-known African American teacher educators—Lisa Delpit, Carl Grant, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Geneva Gay, Cherry McGee Banks,...