Information Age Publishing: 1717 books
by Leslie Jones, Eugene Kennedy
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
The purpose of this publication is to provide school leaders and other educators with insight into practical uses of data and how to create school cultures conducive to effective data use. Practicing school leaders can benefit from this publication as well as teachers who use data in their classrooms...
The Model Minority Stereotype
Demystifying Asian American Success
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Researchers, higher education administrators, and high school and university students desire a sourcebook like The Model Minority Stereotype: Demystifying Asian American Success. This book will assist readers in locating research and literature on the model minority stereotype. This sourcebook is...
This Fist Called My Heart
The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume I
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
This Fist Called My Heart: The Peter McLaren Reader, Volume I is “at the same time an homage, a gathering, an intellectual activist’s...toolkit, a teacher’s bullshit detector, a parent’s demand list and an academic’s orienting topography. This collection of essays...represents some of the...
Within Reach
Providing Universal Access to the Four Pillars of Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Within Reach is a text for anyone interested in improving instructional practices with their students, and in expanding those practices from classroom to classroom. The multifaceted sections of the text broaden the audiences: teacher leaders, administrators, practicing teachers, and teacher/administrator...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Mirroring a parallel movement in psychology, one recent trend in the study of organizations has been an increased focus on positive management and organizational behavior. However, while contributing to an enhanced understanding of organizational phenomena, this focus tends to ignore negative aspects...
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...
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,...
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...