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The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fear, Myths, and Lies peels back the curtain of school reform to examine the tensions that exist between the democratic and equitable system of public education and the emerging dual system based on elite...

In the first book in their series on Marxism and Education, Rikowski and Green use Marxist theory to examine the dialectic between race and power in education. The series is aimed at educationalists - teachers, researchers, policy-makers or...

What does it mean to teach for social justice? Drawing on his own classroom experiences, leading author and educator Kevin K. Kumashiro examines various aspects of anti-oppressive teaching and learning and their implications for six different subject...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955604017Author Gary S StagerFormat HardbackPage Count 418Imprint Constructing Modern Knowledge PressPublisher Constructing Modern Knowledge...

Schutz demonstrates that progressive ideas of democracy emerged out of the practices of a new middle class, reacting, in part, against the more conflictive social struggles of the working-class. The volume traces two distinct branches of democratic...

Detoxing America Schools: From Social Agency to Academic Urgency examines the issue of toxicity in public education institutions. Today's students are exposed to personal beliefs, lifestyle practices, and politicized educational policies-many of which...

What educational experiences have helped college graduates to successfully complete their degrees and prepare for their chosen careers? What motivates them to be curious and confident learners throughout their lives? This book examines these questions...

This book provides examples of how K-12 teachers and other instructors improve their instruction. Their stories illustrate that they do not follow the tenets of the social science improvement paradigm, which was proposed by education professors in the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781608053360Author Carlos Alberto TorresFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Bentham Science PublishersPublisher Bentham Science PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781962624756Author Dr Dudley DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 108Imprint Dr. DavisPublisher Dr. DavisWeight(grams) 168g

Sketches of Democracy is a captivating book that chronicles the first year in the life of a new urban high school. Based on journal entries and educational literature, this book traces the author's challenging journey toward creating a democratic...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781944733506Author Susan Anglada Bartley M EdFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Susan Anglada BartleyPublisher Susan Anglada BartleyWeight(grams) 299g

After an impressive career in journalism, David S. Awbrey became a middle-school social studies teacher in Springfield, Missouri, a typical American community that he uses as a compelling case study to explore many of the social and academic problems...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781583482513Author David W KirkpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint toExcelPublisher toExcelWeight(grams) 399g

The Self-Organizing School provides ground-breaking insights and guidance about how schools can fulfill their aspirations for quality and productivity in learning and teaching. The book describes a comprehensive decade long school design process and...

Half an Inch from the Edge: Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation is a book about the tensions and opportunities reflected in today's public school classrooms in the U.S. Through detailed case studies of four...

Early childhood education in Western society has come under increasing scrutiny by governments that see early education as an important factor in economic growth and development. Thus, social traditions in the field are increasingly giving way to an...

Not everyone finds goals easy to select or focus on, despite escalating evidence of their importance in education. This book offers a simple action research approach to goal pursuit, favoring depth, informed decision making, and an improvement...

This book focuses on today's education relative to its effectiveness for preparing students for the future. The matter of purposes for education today remains controversial in that future success looms important by a considerable portion of the citizenry...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781439254974Author Diane MeredithFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Booksurge PublishingPublisher Booksurge PublishingWeight(grams) 59g

Using a combination of case studies and research, the contributors of this timely book highlight some of the significant issues, historical, curricular, and societal, that have led to African American students having a proportionally larger...

School change has been at center of school reform, and many schools have moved to meet the needs of students in various areas. In many instances, there has been only one addition to the school system to serve as the element of school change. Today's...

Getting 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...

In the first book in their series on Marxism and Education, Rikowski and Green use Marxist theory to examine the dialectic between race and power in education. The series is aimed at educationalists - teachers, researchers, policy-makers or...

This inspirational book provides a concrete model of why university-district partnerships are essential to preparing justice-focused school leaders, and how these partnerships can thrive. Readers will find details of one such partnership, Leadership...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732308404Author Roel KrabbendamFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint LudovicusPublisher LudovicusWeight(grams) 903g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013295126Author Lisbeth LundahFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Saint Philip Street PressPublisher Saint Philip Street PressWeight(grams) 216g

Nearly 50 years ago a California court heard a complaint from a recent high school graduate who alleged that he could not read at a level that would allow him to apply for, let alone hold, a meaningful job. He asserted that the public school district was...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945338144Author Timothy M MullenFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint United Writers PressPublisher United Writers PressWeight(grams) 259gDimensions(mm)...

Where does education happen? In classrooms. Teachers can provide the ultimate reform of education and teachers can be the ultimate reformers of education. Still, teachers cannot create all of the needed improvements in education alone. Input from,...

As 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...

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,...

This collection brings together international teacher educators to employ a 'long view' of an historic and values-based dialectic in teacher education. The authors reflect how employing historical consciousness to look back can offer greater continuity...

The School Reform Landscape Reloaded: More Fear, Myths, and Lies peels back the curtain of school reform to examine the tensions that exist between the democratic and equitable system of public education and the emerging dual system based on elite...

Misplaced Blame: Decades of Failing Schools, Their Children and Their Teachers examines the underlying causes of why schools fail. The book describes the challenges that teachers and their pupils encounter in an environment that is dictated by poverty...

After decades spent pondering basic questions about adopting or implementing `best practices' in education, educators have assembled a canon of evidence-based strategies and programs that should consistently produce good outcomes. So why is the work of...

Half an Inch from the Edge: Teacher Education, Teaching, and Student Learning for Social Transformation is a book about the tensions and opportunities reflected in today's public school classrooms in the U.S. Through detailed case studies of four...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781946822864Author Ranjani IndrajithFormat PaperbackImprint Notion PressPublisher Notion PressWeight(grams) 168g

This book provides new ways of thinking about educational processes, using quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Ultimately, it aims at expanding knowledge itself - altering the centre by allowing the margins to inform it - allowing it to be...

UNSUSTAINABLE frames the problem of cost and effectiveness in America's public schooling system, and provides a strategy to address it. It argues something that many education professionals and policy makers have come to believe but rarely mention: That...