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The Myths of Standardized Tests: Why They Don't Tell You What You Think They Do by Phillip Harris 9781442208094
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $86.68Pundits, 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... -
What You Don't Know Will Hurt You: Sexual Abuse in Schools by Denise Skarbek 9781607092698
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $69.48What You Don't Know Will Hurt You: Sexual Abuse in Schools takes a look at the recently publicized concerns surrounding child sexual abuse in today's schools. It provides an overview of child abuse, specifically focusing on sexual abuse and move to a... -
Service-Learning and Social Justice: Engaging Students in Social Change by Susan Benigni Cipolle 9781607095194
RRP: $101.40Booksplease Price: $93.56Service-Learning and Social Justice provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice. Cipolle describes practical strategies for classroom... -
The Prison Path: School Practices that Hurt Our Youth by Christen E. Clemson 9781610489805
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.28The Prison Path: School Practices that Hurt Our Youth takes a unique and unapologetic look into the practices, social norms, construction, and policies within our schools that mirror prisons. From the physical building to the labeling and placement of... -
Choosing Excellence in Public Schools: Where There's a Will, There's a Way by David W. Hornbeck 9781607091554
RRP: $111.15Booksplease Price: $102.16Choosing Excellence in Public Schools explains the origins of the low expectations we have of children, including, notably, children of color, those for whom English is a second language, poor children and children with disabilities. The book dispels the... -
Coming to Grips with Higher Education by Michael T. Nietzel 9781475838428
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $114.19The American university faces many challenges. It has become too costly and inefficient. It fails too many students. It spends too much time and money on matters that should not be its priorities. It clings to policies and practices that need to go... -
Screwed-Up School Reform: Fixing America's Broken Promise by Bruce S. Cooper 9781610486019
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $54.70The unspoken American promise is that each generation will lead a better, more successful life than the previous one. In earlier times, it was an education that provided the next generations a better life. For today's children, though, decades of failed... -
Blueprint for School System Transformation: A Vision for Comprehensive Reform in Milwaukee and Beyond by Frederick Hess 9781475804690
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.71Despite widespread recognition that school systems need to do profoundly better, those seeking improvement have been persistently frustrated by the mediocre results of popular reforms. School and system leaders, policy-makers, and funders lack clear... -
The Gated Society: Exploring Information Age Realities for Schools by Everette W. Surgenor 9781578869329
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $72.91The public education system has the capacity to slowly and quietly resist all attempts at systemic change or reform; this resistance has become even more tangible and definable over the past fifteen years as reforms to bring schools up-to-date are... -
Stop Politically Driven Education: Subverting the System to Build a New School Model by Eldon "Cap" Lee 9781475848625
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.11On these pages is a call to action for teachers who have been shackled by the self-serving motives of agenda driven politicians. Here we present a new innovative process designed to prepare children to be productive members of their community. Students... -
The Importance of Average: Playing the Game of School to Increase Success and Achievement by Stephen Farenga 9780742570139
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $69.48The Importance of Average calls attention to the policies and practices that discriminate against the silent majority of students in the American educational system. Arguments presented emphasize the collateral damage caused to average students by... -
Defending Public Education from Corporate Takeover by Todd Alan Price 9780761865087
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $69.48At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top. They are allocating their funding to test preparation, riffing beloved teachers, and transferring students who "drag down" their grade average on the state report card... -
Defending Public Education from Corporate Takeover by Todd Alan Price 9780761860495
RRP: $150.15Booksplease Price: $134.75At this moment, schools are doing everything they can to win the Race to the Top. They are allocating their funding to test preparation, riffing beloved teachers, and transferring students who "drag down" their grade average on the state report card... -
The Better Elementary School: Hand-Tailored Education for All Kids by Joel Macht 9781475866469
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.11Responsible elementary schools strive to ensure that all pupils know more today than they knew yesterday thereby better preparing the youngsters for tomorrow's lessons. However essential that aim, achieving the goal faces serious challenges due to what... -
Possibilities of the Impossible: Obstacles of Educational Reform, Nets, Trenches, Sinkholes and Cisterns by Portia S. Bonner 9781475864229
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.71Using metaphors of nets, trenches, sink holes and cisterns, this book shows instances of the obstacles that hinder academic success for our children. The purpose of this book is to bring an awareness of what is broken in our educational system by looking... -
Losing America's Schools: The Fight to Reclaim Public Education by Nancy E. Bailey 9781475828627
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $54.70Losing America's Schools: The Fight to Reclaim Public Education is a call to save one of the last great democratic institutions in America. Corporatization, charter schools, misleading claims of skill gaps, the loss of Separation of Church and State,... -
NeoVouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits for Private Schooling by Kevin G. Welner 9780742540804
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $67.76While school vouchers have captured the headlines, a different policy has captured the students. Tuition tax credit laws are now entrenched in Arizona, Florida, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Iowa, and Georgia, and they affect far more students. Yet few... -
Collaborative Action for Change: Selected Proceedings from the 2007 Symposium on Music Teacher Education by Margaret Schmidt 9781607093251
RRP: $251.55Booksplease Price: $230.28Collaborative Action for Change presents new directions in the preparation and lifelong professional development of music educators. The book's chapters are based on some of the most effective presentations from the 2007 Symposium on Music Teacher... -
Why School Reform Is Failing and What We Need to Do about It: 10 Lessons from the Trenches by Jerry Wartgow 9781578866984
RRP: $83.85Booksplease Price: $78.08Why School Reform Is Failing and What We Need to Do about It evolved from a review of the educational and managerial theory and history that shaped our contemporary public education system. This theoretical construct is then interpreted through more than... -
Getting It Right: Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing What's Broken by Patricia A. Parrish 9781610487153
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $72.91Getting it Right: Dynamic School Renewal, Fixing What's Broken challenges citizens of this nation to right the wrongs in public education by elevating the graduation rate and by equipping every graduate with saleable skills for gainful employment in the... -
What Teachers Expect in Reform: Making Their Voices Heard by Penny Ann Armstrong 9781578867202
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $69.48Education reform and policy making have captured the attention of the American public. In a highly politicized agenda, federal and state improvement plans have become touted national education platforms with stiff penalties for schools and teachers who... -
From the Inside-Out: Concrete Steps to Transforming Education Today by Rich Andrusiak 9781475853773
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $47.11If we want our students to be prepared for a life involved with artificial intelligence, global awareness, cultural understanding, racial, religious and lifestyle diversity, and changing economic and political realities, then we have to change what we... -
The Pitfalls of Reform: Its Incompatibility with Actual Improvement by John Tanner 9781610489232
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $72.91The systems that make up the accountability package in education: standards, assessments, and the quality determination for a school, have each entered the educational field under the explicit assumption by their creators that they would drive educator... -
Battling the Student Engagement Front: Fresh Tactics in a Tortured Turnaround Struggle by Justin A. Collins 9781610487542
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $72.91The school finance debate has profoundly shaped the educational reform landscape over the past four decades. Most conspicuously, judges level billion dollar decrees based on scant and conflicting findings. This book sought to explore whether school... -
Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Andrea Honigsfeld 9781607097990
RRP: $89.70Booksplease Price: $83.23As editors of Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2010) and Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st... -
Barriers to Excellence: The Changes Needed for Our Schools by Betsy Gunzelmann 9781610485784
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $114.19Barriers to Excellence: The Changes Needed for Our Schools brings a new and different viewpoint to our educational problems in the United States. The reasons behind the academic decline we have seen over the last several decades, the continued inequity... -
Equalize Student Achievement: Prioritizing Money and Power by Ovid K. Wong 9781607091462
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $72.91The challenge of proper school finance goes beyond having a balanced budget to finding strategies that maximize money to improve schools and equalize student achievement. School finance deals with how money works to support school operations and answer... -
More Than Title IX: How Equity in Education has Shaped the Nation by Katherine Hanson 9780742566415
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $72.91Women in America have come a long way in the last hundred years, from lacking the right to vote to holding some of the highest profile positions in the country. But this change has not come without struggle. More Than Title IX highlights the impact of... -
The Education System is Broken: Strategies to Rebuilding Hope, Lives, and Futures by Cathy S. Tooley 9781475827392
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.16The intent of this book is to look at our educational system as it currently works and to evaluate not only why this system is broken, but also how we might move forward, together, to fix it.So, how do we fix our failing schools? We begin by finally... -
The Teachers We Need vs. the Teachers We Have: The Realities and the Possibilities by Lawrence Baines 9781607097020
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.71Misinformation and propaganda abound about the quality of teacher preparation in the United States. The Teachers We Need vs. the Teachers We Have reveals exactly how American teachers are taught, describes the wide disparities in the preparation of... -
Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students by Nancy E. Bailey 9781475803563
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $114.19Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America's public school students. Early childhood education, testing, reading, special education, discipline, loss of the arts, and school... -
Back to Common Sense: Rethinking School Change by Joe Dawidziak 9781607095606
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $54.70There are times in today's educational world when it seems as if common sense has lost its place as a factor in critical decision making. This book strives to provide alternative, practical, and commonsense solutions to decision making in several... -
The Better Elementary School: Hand-Tailored Education for All Kids by Joel Macht 9781475866452
RRP: $111.15Booksplease Price: $102.16Responsible elementary schools strive to ensure that all pupils know more today than they knew yesterday thereby better preparing the youngsters for tomorrow's lessons. However essential that aim, achieving the goal faces serious challenges due to what... -
Ten Days That Shook the World of Education: A Close Look at the People Who Facilitated Educational Change by Donald Parkerson 9781475852356
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $55.71Ten Days that Shook the World of Education: A Close Look at the People who Facilitated Educational Change focuses on the critical moments that changed the course of our unique educational experiment. These important incidents reveal how everyday people... -
Enhancing a High-Performing School Culture and Climate: New Insights for Improving Schools by Cletus R. Bulach 9781475829266
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $64.31The purpose of our book is to share with our readers some insights we have acquired over the years in our administrative experience implementing change and reforms. Two areas that are critical for any reform to succeed are the way communications and... -
Education Is Upside-Down: Reframing Reform to Focus on the Right Problems by Eric Kalenze 9781475809947
RRP: $72.15Booksplease Price: $67.76Education Is Upside Down cuts through adjustments being made at technical levels of educational practice and accountability, challenging ideals and philosophies that have powered American Education for most of the last century. This book explains how and... -
Creating Educational Access, Equity, and Opportunity for All: Real Change Requires Redesigning Public Education to Reflect Today's World by Everette W. Surgenor 9781475806984
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $63.16Louis Sullivan, an American architect, was referred to as the "father of modernism" and coined the phrase "form follows function." His phrase provides a key insight into the state of public education in America. The existing form for public education is... -
The Art of Governing Coherently: Mastering the Implementation of Coherent Governance (R) and Policy Governance (R) by Linda J. Dawson 9781475846225
RRP: $120.90Booksplease Price: $110.76This book provides clear strategies and processes for boards faced with the challenge to make their governing model, either Coherent GovernanceO or Policy GovernanceO, work in real life. The Art of Governing Coherently is a practical guide loaded with... -
Top-Down Confusion: Is Gray the New Pink in Education? by Felecia Nace 9781475831948
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $76.36In today's education climate, parents, teachers and school leaders are often confused about the direction of education and what and how children are learning. For anyone interested in the minefields that young people navigate in schools today, this book... -
Living up to Your School Mission Statement: Reforming Schools from the Inside Out by Alan C. Jones 9781475862928
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $54.70All school districts have written statements of the educational values and goals that members of the school community believe are important and worth pursuing. They display these on the front page of all school district public relations packets and on...