Educational Reform category: 2687 books
by Mara Casey Tieken
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
From headlines to documentaries, urban schools are at the center of current debates about education. From these accounts, one would never know that 51 million Americans live in rural communities and depend on their public schools to meet not only educational but also social and economic needs. For...
City Kids, City Teachers
Reports from the Front Row
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
“City Kids, City Teachers has the potential to create genuine change in the learning, teaching, and administration of urban public schools.” —Library Journal
In more than twenty-five provocative selections, an all-star cast of educators and writers explores the surprising realities of...
Approaches to Aboriginal Education in Canada
Searching for Solutions
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2013
In the crucial discussion of Aboriginal education in Canada, there are two distinct schools of thought: parallelism and integrationism. For the first time in one volume, leading thinkers on both sides share their perspectives, allowing readers to examine this complex and emotionally charged issue...
City Schools and the American Dream
Reclaiming the Promise of American Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
What will it take for urban schools to achieve the kind of academic performance required by new state and national educational standards? How can classroom teachers in city schools help to close the achievement gap? What can restore public confidence in public schools?
Pedro Noguera argues...
by Andrew Davis
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
A Critique of Pure Teaching Methods and the Case of Synthetic Phonics examines how research into the effectiveness of teaching methods can and should relate to what takes place in the classroom. The discussion brings to light some important features of the way we classify teaching activities. The...
Better Teachers, Better Schools
What Star Teachers Know, Believe, and Do
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
We all know teachers who, in the face of insurmountable district and school level challenges, inspire underserved students to succeed. These teachers are more than good ? they are ‘stars’. Haberman maintains that school districts still gamble when selecting teachers as an overwhelming number are...
Education Policy and Social Reproduction
Class Inscription & Symbolic Control
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2005
This book takes a theoretically informed look at British education policy over the last sixty years when secondary schooling for all children became an established fact for the first time. Comprehensive schools largely replaced a system based on academic selection. Now, under choice and competition...
School Rules
Obedience, Discipline and Elusive Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2012
How much say should students have in shaping their schools' disciplinary cultures? Should they have the power to weigh in on contentious issues like favouritism, discrimination, ‘no hats’ rules, and zero tolerance? What if pupils disagree with their teachers and administrators on certain rules?...
Educating Activist Allies
Social Justice Pedagogy with the Suburban and Urban Elite
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title 2013!
Educating Activist Allies offers a fresh take on critical education studies through an analysis of social justice pedagogy in schools serving communities privileged by race and class. By documenting the practices of socially committed teachers at an...
Sketches in Democracy
Notes from an Urban Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Sketches of Democracy is a captivating book that chronicles the first year in the life of a new urban high school. Based on journal entries and educational literature, this booktraces the author’s challenging journey toward creating a democratic community of learners within a tangle of socio-economic...
by Arthur T. Costigan, Karen Kepler Zumwalt, Margaret Smith Crocco
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2004
This book documents the "brave new world" of teacher, administrator, school, and student accountability that has swept across the United States in recent years. Its particular vantage point is the perspective of dozens of new teachers trying to make their way through their first months and...
by Collaborative Learning Solutions, Christine Fonseca
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
Students and educators face increasingly difficult school environments. Issues related to bullying, anxiety, poor morale and low motivation have all created barriers to student achievement and success. In response, many districts have implemented a variety of programs and structures to address school...
In Schools We Trust
Creating Communities of Learning in an era of Testing and Standardization
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
We are in an era of radical distrust of public education. Increasingly, we turn to standardized tests and standardized curricula-now adopted by all fifty states-as our national surrogates for trust.
Legendary school founder and reformer Deborah Meier believes fiercely that schools have to win...
All Else Equal
Are Public and Private Schools Different?
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Private schools always provide a better education than public schools. Or do they? Inner-city private schools, most of which are Catholic, suffer from the same problems neighboring public schools have including large class sizes, unqualified teachers, outdated curricula, lack of parental involvement...