Teachers College Press: 606 books
Improving Teacher Evaluation Systems
Making the Most of Multiple Measures
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is the first book to gather and address what we have learned about the impacts and challenges of data-intensive teacher evaluation systems—a defining characteristic of the current education policy landscape. Book Features:Contributions by scholars working at the cutting edge...
Pledging Allegiance
The Politics of Patriotism in American's Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What does it mean to be “patriotic” in the United States after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001? And how have the prevailing notions of patriotism—loudly trumpeted in the American media—affected education in American schools? In this spirited book, renowned educational...
Positive School Leadership
Building Capacity and Strengthening Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This landmark book translates positive and asset-based understandings of organizations to develop a powerful model of school leadership that is grounded in both existing research and the complexities of life in schools. The authors—both senior scholars in educational leadership—apply insights...
Doing Case Study Research
A Practical Guide for Beginning Researchers
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Reflecting recent knowledge and developments in the field, this very practical, easy-to-use guide emphasizes learning how to do case study research—from the first step of deciding whether a case study is the way to go to the last step of verifying and confirming findings before disseminating...
Thinking Critically About Environments for Young Children
Bridging Theory & Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Using a practice-based focus and a researcher lens, the contributors consider the ways in which environments for children enhance or diminish educational experiences, how social constructs about what is good for children influence environmental design, and what practitioners can do in their own work...
The New Early Childhood Professional
A Step-by-Step Guide to Overcoming Goliath
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For today’s early childhood educator, change is a non-negotiable reality. While the size, force, and direction of change can often seem overwhelming, this book shows the way toward overcoming these gigantic odds or “Goliaths.” The New Early Childhood Professional recounts some of the heroic...
Finding Your Leadership Focus
What Matters Most for Student Results
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, author and international keynoter Douglas Reeves addresses a major challenge faced by today’s school leaders: an ever-growing load of programs and initiatives. Reeves contends that program overload not only taxes leadership resources, but actually hurts rather than improves...
by Maxine Greene
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Special 2018 Edition
From the new Introduction by Michelle Fine, Graduate Center, CUNY :
"Why now, you may ask, should I return to a book written in 1988? Because, in Maxine's words: 'When freedom is the question, it is always time to begin.'"
In The Dialectic of Freedom,...
Teaching, Learning, Literacy in Our High-Risk High-Tech World
A Framework for Becoming Human
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is a profound look at learning, language, and literacy. It is also about brains and bodies. And it is about talk, texts, media, and society. These topics, though usually studied in different narrow academic silos, are all part of one highly interactive process—human development. Gee argues...
by Bonnie Keilty
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Family–professional partnerships are essential to early intervention practice (birth–age 3). However, building and sustaining these partnerships is complex work. This book is about digging deeper and looking closer at what it takes to have successful relationships with each and every family....
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Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking volume brings together major figures in Disability Studies in Education (DSE) and Critical Race Theory (CRT) to explore some of today’s most important issues in education. Scholars examine the achievement/opportunity gaps from both historical and contemporary perspectives, as...
RTI and the Adolescent Reader
Responsive Literacy Instruction in Secondary Schools (Middle and High School)
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
RTI and the Adolescent Reader focuses exclusively on Response to Intervention (RTI) for literacy at the secondary level. In this accessible guide, William Brozo defines RTI and explains why and how it is considered a viable intervention model for adolescent readers. He analyzes the authentic structural,...
Race Frameworks
A Multidimensional Theory of Racism and Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is a comprehensive introduction to the main frameworks for thinking about, conducting research on, and teaching about race and racism in education. Renowned theoretician and philosopher Zeus Leonardo surveys the dominant race theories and, more specifically, focuses on those frameworks that are...
Progress Without Punishment
Effective Approaches for Learners with Behavior Problems
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
As learners with special educational, developmental, and behavioral needs are increasingly integrated into the community, it is essential that appropriate and dignified ways of responding to their needs are found. This book advocates and explores the use of alternative, nonaversive intervention procedures,...