Age: 1758 books
by Shane Ralston
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
Confirming his moniker as “America’s philosopher of democracy,” John Dewey engaged in a series of public debates over the course of his lifetime, vividly demonstrating how his thought translates into action. These debates made Dewey a household name and a renowned public intellectual during the...
Culture and Learning
Access and Opportunity in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
From Sites of Occupation to Symbols of Multiculturalism
ReConceptualizing Minority Education in PostSoviet Latvia
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2006
Rarely do we find books in educational research that are both thick in context and rich in theory. Usually books emphasize one over the other. Authors that engage in thick descriptions tend to fall short of explaining what larger theoretical issue their case stands for. Vice versa, authors who make a...
Radical Reformers
The Influence of the Left in American Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2004
Imagining Education
Beyond the Logic Of Global Neoliberal Capitalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Given the current social climate this book interrogates capitalism’s relationships to and influence on education. More importantly, this book is part of a greater effort to re?humanize society by generating dialogue, encouraging solidarity and providing analyses of power and avenues for agency in supporting...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
The new generation of tests is faced with new challenges. In the K?12 setting, the new learning targets are intended to assess higher?order thinking skills and prepare students to be ready for college and career and to keep American students competitive with their international peers. In addition,...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Effective schools engage a wide range of families and community members to support their award?winning programs. This monograph highlights exemplary examples of communities, including foundations, community organizers, non?profit organizations, community agencies, as well as school districts, that...
John Dewey and the Dawn of Social Studies
Unraveling Conflicting Interpretations of the 1916 Report
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2012
Founding documents—namely, the 1916 Report on Social Studies—is the focus of John Dewey and the Dawn of Social Studies: Unraveling Conflicting Interpretations of the 1916 Report which examines the Report in order to determine how it has been interpreted and regarded over time. The underlying question...
Learning from the Boys
Looking Inside the Reading Lives of Three Adolescent Boys
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2013
The “Boy Crisis” is cited often in educational and news reports due to the consistent reading achievement gap for boys and the statistics paint a dismal picture of boys in school. Politicians and researchers often focus on boys’ low scores on reading achievement tests and compare these scores...
The SoJo Journal
Volume 1 #2
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
The SoJo Journal: Educational Foundations and Social Justice Education is an international peerreviewed journal of educational foundations. The Department of Educational Leadership at California State University, East Bay, whose mission is to prepare and influence bold, socially responsible leaders who...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2005
An Administrator’s Guide to Online Education is an essential resource for the higher education administrator. Unlike most books regarding online education, this book is not about teaching; it is about effectively administrating an online education program. Grounded in existing distance education theory,...
Surmounting All Odds Vol. 1
Education, Opportunity, and Society in the New Millennium
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Volume 1 in the two volume set about overcoming the odds in African American Education.
The Broken Cisterns of African American Education
Academic Performance and Achievement in the PostBrown Era
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2008
The failure of American education to achieve racial diversity has resulted from the inability of educational researchers, policy makers and judicial officials to disentangle the complex definitions that have emerged in a postsegregated society. More specifically, the capricious aim of postsegregated...
Communicable Crises
Prevention, Response, and Recovery in the Global Arena
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2007
This volume makes a significant contribution to the crisis management literature. It also adds to our inchoate understanding of network governance: temporary teams and task forces, communities of practice, alliances, and virtual organizations. It hints that the distinction between networks and organizations...