Teachers College Press: 606 books
An UnCommon Theory of School Change
Leadership for Reinventing Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is for educators who believe that schools need to be improved and are hopeful that real change can be achieved. The authors argue that if educators want to create more equitable, socially just, and learner-focused schools, then they need a more robust, transformational theory of school change—an...
Giving Our Children a Fighting Chance
Poverty, Literacy, and the Development of Information Capital
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This is a compelling, eye-opening portrait of two communities in Philadelphia with drastically different economic resources. Over the course of their10-year investigation, the authors of this important new work came to understand that this disparity between affluence and poverty has created a knowledge...
Unpacking Fake News
An Educator's Guide to Navigating the Media with Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Since the 2016 presidential election, the term fake news has become part of the national discourse. Although some have appropriated the term for political purposes, actual fake news represents an inherent threat to American democracy given the ease through which it is consumed and shared via social...
Playing Their Way into Literacies
Reading, Writing, and Belonging in the Early Childhood Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“This book provides a theoretical and empirical foundation for the development of new and exciting pedagogical approaches to the teaching and learning of digital literacies in the earliest years of schooling... researchers, educators, and policymakers alike ignore its key messages at their peril...
Deconstructing Race
Multicultural Education Beyond the Color-Bind
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
How do socially constructed concepts of race dominate and limit understandings and practices of multicultural education? Since race is socially constructed, how do we deconstruct it? In this important book Mahiri argues that multicultural education needs to move beyond racial categories defined...
by Ann M. Aviles de Bradley
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Students experiencing homelessness often face overwhelming obstacles that limit both their access to education and their prospects for success in life. The McKinney-Vento Act (1987) was created to ensure that schools provide services that support students in unstable housing situations but, unfortunately,...
Who Cares for our Children?
The Child Care Crisis in the Other America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Valerie Polakow spent a year traveling around the country listening to low-income women from diverse backgrounds tell their stories of struggle, resilience, distress, and occasional success as they encountered ongoing child care crises. The resulting work is both a compelling account of the lived...
New York City's Best Public Pre-K and Elementary Schools
A Parents' Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Completely revised with new profiles of more than 150 elementary schools and pre-kindergarten programs! For nearly 2 decades, parents have looked to Clara Hemphill to help them find a good public school for their child. This Fourth Edition features all-new reviews of more than 150 of the city’s...
Choosing Charters
Better Schools or More Segregation?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Do charter schools strengthen students’ educational experience? What are their social costs? This volume brings together a group of premier researchers to address questions about the purposes of charter schools and the role of public policy in shaping the educational agenda. Chapter authors explore...
In the Shadow of Authoritarianism
American Education in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In the Shadow of Authoritarianism explores how American educators, in the wake of World War I, created a student-centered curriculum in response to authoritarian threats abroad. For most of the 20th century, American educators lived in the shadow of ideological, political, cultural, and existential...
First Things First!
Creating the New American Primary School
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Challenging policymakers, educators, reformers, and citizens to replace piecemeal reforms with fundamental redesign, First Things First! calls for a different way of organizing the American primary school. Ruby Takanishi outlines a new framework for integrating early education with primary education...
Sometimes I Can Be Anything
Power, Gender, and Identity in a Primary Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In her third book, Sometimes I Can Be Anything, Karen Gallas explores young children’s experience and understanding of gender, race, and power as revealed by the interactions within her first and second grade classroom. Presenting classroom research conducted over a four-year period, this experienced...
Early Childhood Governance
Choices and Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Responding to the current national concern for enhanced commitments to early education, this book examines what states are currently doing, what has proven effective, and what the existing body of knowledge offers educators, policymakers, and others seeking successful approaches to governance. Featuring...
Summer Reading
Closing the Rich/Poor Reading Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While the critical importance of summer reading loss is receiving more attention than in the past, not all summer reading programs are alike. Featuring three new chapters and extensive updating, the second edition of this groundbreaking book describes current research that confirms the importance...