Teachers College Press: 606 books
Human Rights and Schooling
An Ethical Framework for Teaching for Social Justice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Most of the struggles for equitable schooling, including multicultural curricula and culturally responsive teaching, have largely taken place on a local or national stage, with little awareness of how international human rights standards might support these struggles. Human Rights and Schooling explores...
Dewey on Education
Selections, no.3
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Dworkin has gathered some of Dewey’s clearest and most characteristic statements on education and set them in the stream of American social and intellectual history. In addition, he has indicated some of the rich literature available to those who would probe more deeply into Dewey's ideas and the context in which they matured.
Institutionalizing Health and Education for All
Global Goals, Innovations, and Scaling Up
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Health for All and Education for All have been rallying cries for a host of international development activities for more than a quarter century. Where did these global goals come from? Why have the health goals seemingly advanced so much faster than those in education? In this book, author Colette...
Studio Thinking from the Start
The K8 Art Educator’s Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Students of all ages can learn to think like artists! Studio Thinking: The Real Benefits of Visual Arts Education changed the conversation about quality arts education. Now this new publication shows how the eight Studio Habits of Mind and four Studio Structures can be used successfully with younger...
The Beginner's Guide to Doing Qualitative Research
How to Get into the Field, Collect Data, and Write Up Your Project
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book provides theoretically grounded, real-world advice for students beginning to learn how to conduct qualitative research. Drawing on the authors’ extensive experience teaching qualitative methods, the text uses students’ questions and concerns as an organizational framework. ...
STEM-Rich Maker Learning
Designing for Equity with Youth of Color
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In recent years, Maker-centered learning has emerged in schools and other spaces as a promising new phase of STEM education reform. With a sharp focus on equity, the authors investigate community-based STEM Making programs to determine whether, and how, they can address the educational needs of youth...
Con Respeto
Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools: An Ethnographic Portrait
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Con Respeto presents a study of ten Mexican immigrant families, with a special focus on mothers, that describes how such families go about the business of surviving and learning to succeed in a new world. Guadalupe Valdés examines what appears to be a lack of interest in education by Mexican parents...
Educating Emergent Bilinguals
Policies, Programs, and Practices for English Learners
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Now available in a revised and expanded edition, this accessible guide introduces readers to the issues and controversies surrounding the education of language minority students in the United States. What makes this book a perennial favorite are the succinct descriptions of alternative practices for...
Spectacular Things Happen Along the Way
Lessons from an Urban Classroom—10th Anniversary Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This celebrated narrative shows how a teacher, alongside his 5th-grade students, co-created a curriculum based on the students’ needs, interests, and questions. Follow Brian Schultz and his students from a Chicago housing project as they work together to develop an emergent and authentic curriculum...
Faculty Work and the Public Good
Philanthropy Engagement and Academic Professionalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
At a time when faculty roles are under great scrutiny and faculty work itself has an uncertain future, this book offers a new approach to examining academic professionalism. This collection of essays applies a philanthropic lens to contemporary debates and considers academic work completed out of...
by Ronnie Casella
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book looks at the lives of young people and the violence that is a daily part of their world in an urban high school. “Being Down” studies school violencecomprehensively—linking school ethnography, policy analysis, and urban studies and encompassing city politics, racism, policing,...
The Early Intervention Guidebook for Families and Professionals
Partnering for Success
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This guidebook on family–professional partnerships has been used as a go-to early intervention resource in university coursework, for inservice professional development, and as a support to families in (or considering) early intervention. This new edition has been completely revised to reflect...
Does Compliance Matter in Special Education?
IDEA and the Hidden Inequities of Practice
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book asks a question that many educators may think, but won’t say out loud: Does compliance with IDEA legislation matter? The author acknowledges that, while compliance with IDEA (Individuals with Disabilities Education Act) is important, it can also be an administrative burden that detracts...
Closing the School Discipline Gap
Equitable Remedies for Excessive Exclusion
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Educators remove over 3.45 million students from school annually for disciplinary reasons, despite strong evidence that school suspension policies are harmful to students. The research presented in this volume demonstrates that disciplinary policies and practices that schools control directly exacerbate...