Student Student Life category: 717 books
by Chuck Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
underage drinking has become a global epidemic of phenomenal proportions. Unfortunately most parents, teens and educators are concerned only with underage drinking and driving which can result in tragic auto accidents. As tragic as these accidents are they are a small fraction of the problem of the underage...
by Denise Clark Pope
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
This book offers a highly revealing-and troubling-view of today’s high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Denise Pope, veteran teacher and curriculum expert, follows five motivated and successful students through a school year, closely shadowing them and engaging them...
Rebels in Society
The Perils of Adolescence
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
Rebels in Society: The Perils of Adolescence is a true journey into the world of adolescents gone bad. This book reveals the inner workings of adolescents who have been caught up in pathology and the juvenile justice system. The first part of the book highlights juvenile sex offenders, juvenile serial...
by Anita Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2013
Unlike as with previous generations, diversity and multiculturalism are engrained in the lives of today’s urban youth. Within their culturally diverse urban environments, young people from different backgrounds now routinely encounter one another in their everyday lives and negotiate and contest...
Citizenship and Moral Education
Values in Action
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2006
Moral and citizenship education are again at the forefront of educational attention with the recent governmental announcements about revisions to the National Curriculum frameworks to 2000 and beyond.
This book addresses some of the central issues in moral and citizenship education facing teachers...
by Frances Thomas
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
If you are starting college or know someone who is, this concise and powerful book will provide the tools every freshman needs. Success in the first year of college means more than a high GPA. To be truly successful in college and beyond requires emotional intelligence. Average 2 Awesome will guide...
Opportunity and Hope
Transforming Children's Lives through Scholarships
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The U.S. education system is not meeting the needs of all our children, especially those who are economically disadvantaged. For too many families, income level and ZIP code determine the quality of education available to their children. The need to give all children access to a good education, a...
Literacy and Mobility
Complexity, Uncertainty, and Agency at the Nexus of High School and College
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017
Pushing forward research on emerging literacies and theoretical orientations, this book follows students from different tracks of high school English in a "failing" U.S. public school through their first two years in universities, colleges, and jobs. Analytical and methodological tools from...
From Project-Based Learning to Artistic Thinking
Lessons Learned from Creating An UnHappy Meal
Language: English
Release Date: December 14, 2015
This book follows the course of a year-long experiment in which the students were tasked with recreating a McDonald’s Happy Meal by making all the components - from food to packaging - by hand from local ingredients. It was meant to test a hypothesis that a very well-designed project in the arts...
Curriculum and Students in Classrooms
Everyday Urban Education in an Era of Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
Curriculum and Students in Classrooms: Everyday Urban Education in an Era of Standardization is a timely and thought-provoking work that attends to often-neglected aspects of schooling: the everyday interactions between curriculum, teachers, and students. Walter S. Gershon addresses the bridge between...
Kids in the Middle
The Micro Politics of Special Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Kids in the Middle: The Micro-Politics of Special Education takes the reader on a fascinating journey through special education in the past, present, and future. On this journey, the micro-politics of special education are seen through the eyes and experiences of children with disabilities, their...
It's a Matter of Fact
Teaching Students Research Skills in Today's Information-Packed World
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2018
In this new book from Routledge and MiddleWeb, author Angie Miller shows how you can turn your students into informed citizens by teaching them how to research effectively. In today’s information-saturated world research skills have moved beyond fact-finding, into fact-sifting, fact-sorting, and...
Quick and Easy - How to Make an "A" - In a Nutshell
No More Questions Unanswered!
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2013
Quick and Easy - How to make an A In a NUTSHELL No more questions unanswered! The purpose of this guide is to give a refresher for some and a quick course for others on how to successfully pass any and every class that you take with a grade of an “A.” As an instructor of different levels of students,...
Imagine a Place
Stories from Middle Grades Educators
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Imagine a place where passion for learning, authentic connection with colleagues and community, and strengthsbased middle grades education thrive. Imagine places of learning and inspiration for teachers, administrators, teacher educators, and teacher candidates. Imagine a Place: Stories From Middle Grades...