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Culture, Poverty, and Education
What's Happening in Today's Schools?
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2015
Culture, Poverty, and Education: What’s Happening in Today’s Schools? is intended to not only discuss 5 myths about the culture of poverty and its effects on education, but provide some resources on alternatives for educator’s to better address this growing barrier to student achievement in today’s schools.
From Risk to Resiliency
A Resource for Strengthening Education's Stepchild
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
From Risk to Resiliency, offers opportunities for program developers to bring together personal, closely held stakeholder values with program and classroom practices, opportunities only now being realized.
Essential Measures for Student Success
Implementing Cooperation, Collaboration, and Coordination Between Schools and Parents
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This book unveils “essential measures” that create a revitalized educational system of which educators and parents can use to promote student success. When these measures are applied properly, the benefits include, eradicating student fear, elevating student motivation, improving school attendance,...
The First-Year Urban High School Teacher
Holding the Torch, Lighting the Fire
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2008
The First-Year Urban High School Teacher: Holding the Torch, Lighting the Fire tracks co-author Paul Weinberg during his first year of teaching as he is introduced to the daily tribulations of an urban Los Angeles high school. Paul's father, Carl Weinberg, who fifty years earlier himself began his...
Auto/biography & Pedagogy
Memory & Presence in Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2013
In the tradition of educational narrative inquiry, this book explores diverse ways of thinking, writing and theorizing from auto/biographic experience, in language that is rooted in practice yet challenges the authoritative discourses of educational policy, theory and research. The book moves from...
by Hilary Janks
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
Hilary Janks addresses key questions about literacy and power in this landmark text that is both engaging and accessible.
Her central argument is that competing orientations to critical literacy education − domination (power), access, diversity, design − foreground one over the other, but...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2010
Making Math Learning Fun for Inner City School Students is an effective tool for educators and a textbook for professors of higher education. The concepts discussed in the book provide a body of knowledge that will enable leaders to understand the critical issues surrounding inner city school students...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2010
With issues of equity at the forefront of mathematics education research and policy, Mathematics Teaching, Learning, and Liberation in the Lives of Black Children fills the need for authoritative, rigorous scholarship that sheds light on the ways that young black learners experience mathematics in...
Everyday Maths through Everyday Provision
Developing opportunities for mathematics in the early years
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Children are born naturally mathematical, so why is it sometimes so difficult to observe children being mathematical? Why do so many of us think we are ‘bad’ at maths and how does this subconsciously affect the provision, experiences and opportunities we provide for young children who are starting...
by Moisés Castillo
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
"My Diploma doesn't seem to work" was written by a recent high school grad who is passionate about helping others see through an established system and find their greater potential. What you will get out of reading this book is a shifted perspective and an abundance of self-awareness of...
The Politics of Authentic Engagement
Perspectives, Strategies, and Tools for Student Success
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
The Politics of Authentic Engagement: Perspectives, Strategies and Tools for Student Success provides practical approaches for leaders in a variety of roles to address the changing landscape of schooling, build dynamic relationships in support of schools, help parents/families support their children’s...
A Guide to Teaching Practice
5th Edition
Language: English
Release Date: June 17, 2010
A Guide to Teaching Practice is the major standard text for all students on initial teacher training courses in the UK.
Authoritative yet accessible, it covers the important basic skills and issues that students need to consider during their practice, such as planning, classroom organization, behaviour...
Single-Sex Schools
A Place to Learn
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Single sex schooling might appear to be an obscure issue on the sidelines of the educational policy debates of our times. But it is far from this. In fact, a sizable number of people and political organizations would like to make these schools obscure, but somehow they are “scaling up” rather...
The Best Dang Job in the World
A Leadership Guide for College and University Administrators
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2013
In The Best Dang Job in the World, Bill Rezak creates a fictional campus to highlight characteristics, attributes, and behaviors which are key to success in leading an institution of higher learning. The book centers on Rick Nedic, a dean who finds himself the victim of a faculty no-confidence vote....