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Improving Urban Schools
Equity and Access in K16 STEM Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Although STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) has been diversely defined by various researchers (e.g. Buck Institute, 2003; Capraro & Slough, 2009; Scott, 2009; Wolf, 2008), during the last decade, STEM education has gained an increasing presence on the national agenda through...
This Happened in America
Harold Rugg and the Censure of Social Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2007
This long awaited biography of Harold Rugg is a dramatic and compelling story with profound implications for today’s educators. Harold Rugg, one of the leading progressive educators of the 20th century, developed an innovative social studies program and textbook series that was censured by conservative...
Accessible Education for Blind Learners
Kindergarten through PostSecondary
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
(special supplemental workbook) The goal of this manual is to enhance the capacity of all members of the educational context, whether student, parent, teacher, administrator, or consultant, to activate the benefits of infused technologies for all learners, including those who are blind or have low vision....
Topics in Mathematics for Elementary Teachers
A TechnologyEnhanced Experiential Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
This book reflects the author’s experience in teaching a mathematics content course for preservice elementary teachers. The book addresses a number of recommendations of the Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences for the preparation of teachers demonstrating how abstract mathematical concepts...
The Status of Social Studies
Views from the Field
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A team of researchers from 35 states across the country developed a survey designed to create a snapshot of social studies teaching and learning in the United States. With over 12,000 responses, it is the largest survey of social studies teachers in over three decades. We asked teachers about their curricular...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Visual Data in Science Education builds upon previous work done by the editors to bring some definition to the meaning of visual data as it relates to education, and highlighted the breadth of types and uses of visual data across the major academic disciplines. In this book, the editors have brought...
Transforming Schools
Alternative Perspectives on School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
President Obama has on a number of occasions rejected policies that have been tried and do not work. Legislation such as No Child Left Behind and policies such as Race to the Top are neither effective nor based on sound research. Educational policymaking is now, more than ever, the preserve of politicians,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The idea for this book was born from discussions at several recent academic events including the Women Leading Education (WLE) International Conference in Volos, Greece (2012) and the University Council for Educational Administration (UCEA) Conference in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (2011) as well as...
by William Jeynes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2005
A Hand Not Shortened is a comprehensive theological book on the creative workings of the grace of God in ten of the great individuals of the Bible. Very few books examine exegetically the dynamics of the grace of God in such detail. The primary theme of the book is that God adjusts the workings of...
Variability is the Rule
A Companion Analysis of K8 State Mathematics Standards
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
In response to No Child Let Behind, states have developed mathematics curriculum frameworks that outline their intended curriculum for grades K8. While some have indicated that districts or individual schools may use their framework as a model for specific curricular programs, others have taken a...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2006
The chapters contained in the book present a new and exciting set of conceptual tools that will not only allow us to think about transfer in more productive ways, but will also enable the development of educational and measurement tools that will greatly facilitate our ability to educate the children...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Democratic political systems and the democratic way of life is aspired by most people around the world. Democracy is considered to be morally superior to other forms of political systems as it aspires to secure civil liberties, human rights, social justice and equality before the law for everyone regardless...
Bridge Leadership
Connecting Educational Leadership and Social Justice to Improve Schools
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is the first chronicle of the history of social justice as a line of inquiry within the field of educational administration. Editors Tooms and Boske have amassed a collective voice of leaders in the field of Educational Administration who have broken barriers and expanded the field through their...
Understanding Neoliberal Rule in K12 Schools
Educational Fronts for Local and Global Justice
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers. Much less often the word appears in connection with political economy. The phrase “free market” gives the connotation that capitalism is freedom. Neoliberalism is the rise of global freemarket fundamentalism....