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Radical Equality in Education
Starting Over in U.S. Schooling
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Tinkering with the current educational system from within has not provided a just and equitable education for all children. In this book, acclaimed education theorist Joanne Larson poses basic questions about the nature and purpose of schooling. Proposing that what is needed is a new purpose that...
Mentoring Teachers in Post-Compulsory Education
A Guide to Effective Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
This timely new handbook will be an essential read for all college staff who find themselves involved in mentoring trainee teachers in post-compulsory education, either through choice or necessity! Describing all of the expectations, responsibilities and rewards involved in mentoring college teachers...
Developing Your Portfolio - Enhancing Your Learning and Showing Your Stuff
A Guide for the Early Childhood Student or Professional
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2011
Portfolios have often been used as a way for teachers to monitor and assess their students' progress, but this book picks up on the current trend of using portfolios to assess teachers themselves as part of their degree requirements. As a professional development tool, portfolios are also useful for...
Classroom Management
A Guide for Urban School Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Many teachers who work in urban schools find classroom management to be very problematic. Their university course work, and training, didn’t prepare them for the heavy demands of being an urban school teacher. Urban educators need to be equipped with the knowledge and skills needed to effectively...
Creative Development
Transforming Education through Design Thinking, Innovation, and Invention
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2016
Spark continual creative growth for both learners and educators. Creativity is a key ingredient for success in the knowledge economy of the 21st century, where skills such as collaboration, communication, and critical thinking are central. Most educators agree that encouraging creativity must become...
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Ever wanted to know what the people who impact the world think? This is your chance. Open the book and find out. Absorb the knowledge in this book and soon enough you will find yourself at 1%. It will take hard work a dedication, but as everything in this life it will pay off, so just start.
Random Musings
Reflections of a Black Intellectual
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2011
Random Musings: Reflections of a Black Intellectual focuses on the various racial and cultural challenges facing African-Americans in the context of present day educational, political, and historical realities. The text touches on a wide array of issues, including the psychology of race and power,...
Community College Student Success
From Boardrooms to Classrooms
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2012
Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant. To further illustrate the connections between research and practice, case studies...
Innovative Ideas for School Business Officials
Best Practices from ASBO's Pinnacle Awards
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2003
School business officials are known for their innovative, meaningful contributions to the improvement of their profession and the efficiency of school entities. The ASBO International Pinnacle Awards were established to recognize outstanding practices and new ideas that result in significant contributions...
The Best Schools
How Human Development Research Should Inform Educational Practice
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2006
Educators, politicians, parents, and even students are consumed with speaking the language of academic achievement. Yet something is missing in the current focus on accountability, standardized testing, and adequate yearly progress. If schools continue to focus the conversation on rigor and accountability...
Preserving the Public in Public Schools
Visions, Values, Conflicts, and Choices
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2011
What's public about public schools? Why do we invest in educating the next generation of Americans? What is it that drives our common purpose in educating children and at the same time divides us so passionately about how to educate them? Public schools have little to do with children. Schools are...
The Global Achievement Gap
Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-and What We Can Do About It
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Bestselling education expert Tony Wagner's groundbreaking manifesto on how to reform our schools and educate our children for the twenty-first century global economy
In The Global Achievement Gap, education expert Tony Wagner situates our school problems in the larger context of the demands...
How to be a "HIP" College Campus
Maximizing Learning in Undergraduate Education
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Through the voices of dozens of seasoned college faculty and junior and senior students, this book shares insights and practical examples on how a college campus can be “HIP”—utilizing high-impact educational practices widely and effectively. The book’s strength is numerous hands-on examples...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
Structural Challenges and the Future of Honors Education is the third volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without...