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Achieving Results
Maximizing Student Success in the Schoolhouse
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2018
As a result of this distressing information on the challenges facing our educators, this book was written to highlight approaches and strategies that have been found to improve student outcomes. Administrative factors, educational policy and law, implementation of evidence-based teaching practices,...
by Jay Dorfman
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
Based on educational theory and on recognized music teaching methods, Theory and Practice of Technology-Based Music Instruction develops a framework for examining music teaching that uses technology to introduce, reinforce, and assess skills and concepts. The framework guides in-depth discussions...
Moral Education in America's Schools
The Continuing Challenge
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
This book is not a comprehensive history of moral education in American schools. Rather, it is an episodic history that deals with selected periods, movements, and individuals throughout the course of American education history from the time of colonial Massachusetts in the 17th century up to present...
Visible Learning for Teachers
Maximizing Impact on Learning
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In November 2008, John Hattie’s ground-breaking book Visible Learning synthesised the results of more than fifteen years research involving millions of students and represented the biggest ever collection of evidence-based research into what actually works in schools to improve learning.
Visible...
The Relevance of Higher Education
Exploring a Contested Notion
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Most statements today about higher education begin with the assumption that it should be relevant. That it should be relevant, however, does not settle the matter. The significance of relevance depends on the power of something else that is more fundamental. Relevance may be a true standard of judgment,...
Knowledge in the Making
Academic Freedom and Free Speech in America's Schools and Universities
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2010
How free are students and teachers to express unpopular ideas in public schools and universities? Not free enough, Joan DelFattore suggests. Wading without hesitation into some of the most contentious issues of our times, she investigates battles over a wide range of topics that have fractured school...
How To Pass a Test
Is this the direction of Australian education today?
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
‘The measure of how well a school suits your child, and consequently how successful it is in educating your child, does not come from looking up an unreliable and highly variable ranking on the internet. It comes from observing your child, being engaged in the school environment and building up...
Deculturalization and the Struggle for Equality
A Brief History of the Education of Dominated Cultures in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2016
Joel Spring’s history of school polices imposed on dominated groups in the United States examines the concept of deculturalization—the use of schools to strip away family languages and cultures and replace them with those of the dominant group. The focus is on the education of dominated groups...
by Journal of School Public Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2014
The Journal of School Public Relations is a quarterly publication providing research, analysis, case studies and descriptions of best practices in six critical areas of school administration: public relations, school and community relations, community education, communication, conflict management/resolution,...
The Death and Resurrection of a Coherent Literature Curriculum
What Secondary English Teachers Can Do
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2012
This book is addressed to teachers who know that the secondary literature curriculum in our public schools is in shambles. Unless experienced and well-read English teachers can develop coherent and increasingly demanding literature curricula in their schools, average high school students will remain...
Teaching Social Foundations of Education
Contexts, Theories, and Issues
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within teacher education:
*Articulates central questions in the field--such as "What is social foundations?"; "Is there a social foundations...
Toward a Literacy of Promise
Joining the African American Struggle
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2012
"[This book] gives us strategies for bringing life back to school; it allows us to think creatively about connecting instruction to the lives of children who have not been well-served; it helps us learn to value the gifts with words our children of color bring; and it gives us hope for educating...
The Language Police
How Pressure Groups Restrict What Students Learn
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
If you’re an actress or a coed just trying to do a man-size job, a yes-man who turns a deaf ear to some sob sister, an heiress aboard her yacht, or a bookworm enjoying a boy’s night out, Diane Ravitch’s internationally acclaimed The Language Police has bad news for you: Erase those words from...
Pushing the Limits
How Schools Can Prepare Our Children Today for the Challenges of Tomorrow
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
How do we prepare children for a future we can't even imagine?
Across Canada, a debate swirls around what our children will need to know in the face of huge technological, economic, social and political change. The question has become an ideological battleground, and there is a hunger for a...