Age: 1758 books
Reading
Policy, Politics, and Processes
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2007
The past decade saw heightened policy activism in the field of reading at both the federal level and across virtually all 50 states. Initially sparked by disagreements about methods for teaching children to read, the socalled "reading wars" stirred heated debates on a variety of issues: levels and trends...
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue
Vol. 7 # 1 & 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2005
Curriculum and Teaching Dialogue is the journal of the American Association of Teaching and Curriculum (AATC). An important historical event in the development of organizations dealing with the scholarly field of teaching and curriculum was the founding of the AATC on October 1, 1993. The members...
Restorative Practice Meets Social Justice
UnSilencing the Voices of "AtPromise" Student Populations
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Restorative Practice Meets Social Justice: Unsilencing the Voices of “AtPromise” Student Populations is a collection of pragmatic urban school experiences that focus on restorative approaches situated in the context of social justice. By adopting this approach, researchers and practitioners can connect...
Crossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide
A Walk with Global Leaders
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2018
Crossing the Bridge of the Digital Divide: A Walk with Global Leaders explores the combined effect of the rapid growth of information as an increasingly fragmented information base, a large component of which is available only to people with money and/or acceptable institutional affiliations. In the...
Images of Time
The Role of an Historical Consciousness of Time in Learning History
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
What makes history difficult to learn is the fact that one has to travel in time. Studying events and circumstances from a time perspective different from our own is something that doesn’t come naturally to people. It is an ability that has to be acquired. This book discusses teaching and learning...
Teaching Again
A Professor's Tale of Returning to a Ninth Grade Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Teaching Again exposes the very human core of the teaching experience. This book is not just about teaching English/language arts; it is about the heart and soul of the vocation that is teaching. It is also not just about Tom Poetter, the English teacher; it is about every individual who has ever...
by Su Liang
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
This book provides an insightful view of effective teaching practices in China from an international perspective by examining the grades 712 mathematics teacher preparation in the Shandong province of China. It is an excellent reference book for teacher educators, researchers, reformers, and teaching...
Better Principals, Better Schools
What Star Principals Know, Believe, and Do
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
A school is only as good as its principal. This quip forms the thesis of Better Principals as it provides a bird’s eye view on the enactment of Haberman’s eleven core functions of a star principal. Better Principals is imperative for two main reasons. First, the achievement gap between 20 million...
Telling Our Stories
Culturally Different Adults Reflect on Growing Up in SingleParent Families
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Five decades ago, I was challenged to read the Moynihan Report (1965). Then and now, I take issue with much of the content, which smacks of deficit thinking, blaming the victim, and a blindness or almost total disregard for how systemic racism and social injustices contribute to family structures. I...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2008
This volume provides a comprehensive critical analysis of the research in mathematics education for young children. The researchers who conducted the critical analysis focused on the relationship between (1) mathematics learning in the early years and domain specific approaches to cognitive development,...
Care & Advocacy
Narratives from a School for Immigrant Youth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
This is a book of oral narratives, collected from participants at a school created for firstgeneration, immigrant youth. The narrations from the students, teachers, administration, professional staff, and support personnel document the power of caring relationships in an educational setting. The narratives...
Handbook of Research on Mathematics Teaching and Learning
(A Project of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics)
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
Sponsored by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics and written by leading experts in the field of mathematics education, the Handbook is specifically designed to make important, vital scholarship accessible to mathematics education professors, graduate students, educational researchers, staff...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Trust has a constituent role in human societies. It has been treated as a scientific topic in many disciplines. Yet, despite the fact that trust and distrust come to life primarily in human communication and through language, it has seldom been analyzed from a communicative or linguistic perspective....