Teachers College Press: 606 books
Personal Narrative, Revised
Writing Love and Agency in the High School Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this inspirational book, LaMay shows readers how to transform classrooms and schools into places where youth can explore the intersection between literacy and their lives. This book is the culmination of a literacy curriculum that the author and her high school students wrote dialogically, beginning...
Teaching for Thinking Today
Strategies, and Activities for the K-8 Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
These are turbulent times. We live in a climate of vigorous testing and memorization, so how can we both engage and challenge our children to learn and become thinking citizens in our society? In her invaluable new book, Selma Wassermann takes a step forward from Louis Rath’s seminal work and...
Race to the Bottom
Corporate School Reform and the Future of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How did the country that invented the modern public school end up embracing policies that weaken it? What alternatives are there to current corporate reform policies? How can we give America’s children an education that will truly prepare them and our nation for the challenges of tomorrow? In Race...
by Joseph J. Caruso, M. Temple Fawcett
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Every early care and education program deserves a qualified and competent supervisor. This pioneering text continues to address the special needs of administrators and staff to help them expand and improve their supervisory skills. The first to provide guidelines and practical suggestions for staff...
Show Me What You Know
Exploring Student Representations Across STEM Disciplines
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Just like representations in everyday life, this book shows that representations are ubiquitous to science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—the STEM disciplines.“Show Me What You Know” showcases research on representations across a range of STEM disciplines and ages—from...
Selling School
The Marketing of Public Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely book outlines the growth and development of marketing and branding practices in public education. The authors highlight why these practices have become important across key fields within public education, including leadership and governance, budgeting and finance, strategic initiatives,...
It’s Not About Grit
Trauma, Inequity, and the Power of Transformative Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Speaking out against decades of injustice and challenging deficit perceptions of young learners and their families, It’s Not About Grit pulls back the veil, revealing the social systems that marginalize and stigmatize mostly poor, urban students of color and their communities. At the same time,...
Global Migration, Diversity, and Civic Education
Improving Policy and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Mass migration and globalization are creating new and deep challenges to education systems the world over. In this volume, some of the world’s leading researchers in multicultural education and immigration discuss critical issues related to cultural sustainability, structural inclusion, and social...
Talking Their Way Into Science
Hearing Children's Questions and Theories, Responding with Curriculum
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Karen Gallas provides us with a window into children’s thinking about the world, enabling us to see how students build complex theories, identify important questions, and begin to enter the world of science, all within the naturalistic setting of the classroom.As the title suggests, this book...
The New Democratic Professional in Education
Confronting Markets, Metrics, and Managerialism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This timely and accessible book examines two waves of business influence that created models of schooling that are out of touch with the experiences of students, the professional expertise of teachers, and the needs and interests of local communities. The book also describes the forms of resistance...
by Kenneth A. Strike, Emil J. Haller, Jonas F. Soltis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This popular text features a rigorous yet practical approach to the difficult dilemmas that so often arise in school administration. Using case studies to illustrate particular ethical issues, the authors cover such topics as: standards • assessment and evaluation • equal opportunity • multiculturalism...
Powerful Reforms with Shallow Roots
Improving America's Urban Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Drastic reform measures are being implemented in growing numbers of urban communities as the public’s patience has finally run out with perpetually nonperforming public schools. This authoritative and eye-opening volume examines governance changes in six cities during the 1990s, where either...
Authentic Assessment in Action
Studies of Schools and Students at Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book examines, through case studies of elementary and secondary schools, how five schools have developed “authentic,” performance-based assessments of students’ learning, and how this work has interacted with and influenced the teaching and learning experiences students encounter in school....
by Angela Calabrese Barton, Jason L. Ermer, Tanahia A. Burkett-Benton
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How might science education reflect the values of a socially just and democratic society? How do urban youth living in poverty construct science in their lives in ways that are enriching, empowering, and transformative? Using a combination of in-depth case studies and rigorous theory, this volume:
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