Teachers College Press: 606 books
The Privatization of Education
A Political Economy of Global Education Reform
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Education privatization is a global phenomenon that has crystallized in countries with very different cultural, political, and economic backgrounds. In this book, the authors examine how privatization policies are being adopted and why so many countries are engaging in this type of education reform....
Creativity and the Autistic Student
Supporting Strengths to Develop Skills and Deepen Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Using creativity as a lens to explore the meaningful learning experiences of autistic youth, Carrie Snow evaluates and challenges common conceptions about autism and offers a strengths-based demonstration of the many ways that autistic people express creativity and imagination. She then identifies...
by Mercedes K. Schneider
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her new book, bestselling author Mercedes Schneider provides little-known details about the history of the Common Core State Standards. She lifts the veil on how the Common Core was developed, who was present in the back room, the push to copyright it so that test-makers could profit, and the urgency...
Ready or Not
Leadership Choices in Early Care and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After more than a century of evolution, early childhood care and education in the United States is in transition. In this frank discussion of the field’s purpose, identity, and responsibility, the authors examine the major issues that must be addressed if children are to be given more and better...
Data-Driven School Improvement
Linking Data and Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The first comprehensive examination of the field, this book brings together stakeholders representing a variety of perspectives to explore how educators actually use data and technology tools to achieve lasting improvement in student performance. Contributors: David V. Abbott, Carrie Amon,...
"Why We Drop Out"
Understanding and Disrupting Student Pathways to Leaving School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Through engaging stories and the use of students’ voices, this book corrects persistent misconceptions about youth who drop out of high school. Based on research conducted with high school dropouts in both urban and rural communities, the authors argue that, contrary to popular belief, most...
Seen and Heard
Children's Rights in Early Childhood Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Using examples from a Reggio-inspired school with children from ages 6 weeks to 6 years, the authors emphasize the importance of children’s rights and our responsibility as adults to hear their voices. Seen and Heard summarizes research and theory pertaining to young children’s rights in the United...
Manufacturing Hope and Despair
The School and Kin Support Networks of U.S.-Mexican Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Relying on a wealth of ethnographic and statistical data, this groundbreaking volume documents the many constraints and social forces that prevent Mexican-origin adolescents from constructing the kinds of networks that provide access to important forms of social support. Special attention is paid...
Teaching in the Flat World
Learning from High-Performing Systems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teaching in the Flat World will help school systems improve their teacher workforce by drawing important lessons from nations with high-performing educational systems, as well as from successful state experiments in the United States.The authors examine common features and differences in the approaches...
Supporting English Learners in the Classroom
Best Practices for Distinguishing Language Acquisition from Learning Disabilities
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This resource offers educators evidence-based best practices to help them address the individual needs of English learners with academic challenges and those who have been referred for special education services. The authors include guidance and specific tools to help districts, schools, and classrooms...
Challenges to Japanese Education
Economics, Reform, and Human Rights
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this volume, eight leading Japanese scholars present their research on profound and sensitive issues facing Japanese society, much of which has not been available to the English-speaking world. Traveling from Japan to engage in a unique forum at University of California, they joined eminent Professors...
Better Together
A Model University-Community Partnership for Urban Youth
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the dramatic story behind the transformation of Duke University from an isolated, exclusive institution to the dynamic, civically engaged campus that exists today.Better Togetherexamines the first decade of the Duke-Durham Neighborhood Partnership (DDNP) and its involvement with Project HOPE,...
Reasoning With Democratic Values 2.0 Instructor's Manual
Ethical Issues in American History
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The Instructor’s Manual for Volume 1 and 2 of Reasoning with Democratic Values 2.0: Ethical Issues in American History is a comprehensive ebook that will help instructors use the student volumes in secondary school or college courses in United States history.
Student Volume 1 contains 20...
The Enlightened Eye
Qualitative Inquiry and the Enhancement of Educational Practice, Reissued with a New Prologue and Foreword
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now available from TC Press with a new foreword by Nel Noddings and a new prologue by P. Bruce Uhrmacher and Christy McConnell Moroye, this classic text on qualitative research is ideal for both novice and established researchers. Eisner’s seminal work on mind, education, and research explores...