R L Education: 708 books
Screwed-Up School Reform
Fixing America’s Broken Promise
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The unspoken American promise is that each generation will lead a better, more successful life than the previous one. In earlier times, it was an education that provided the next generations a better life. For today’s children, though, decades of failed school reform have left a generation wondering...
Reform Doesn't Work
Grassroots Efforts Can Provide Answers to School Improvement
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2012
Where does education happen? In classrooms. Teachers can provide the ultimate reform of education and teachers can be the ultimate reformers of education. Still, teachers cannot create all of the needed improvements in education alone. Input from, involvement from, ideas from, and participation from...
Exploiting Children
School Board Members Who Cross The Line
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2013
America’s citizens want children to receive a high-quality education in clean, orderly and safe schools staffed with quality teachers, support staff and courageous educational leaders. In many communities, such a school experience is something the students will never have.
Why? One or more members...
Educating Latino Students
A Guide to Successful Practice
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2002
Latino/a students are in a unique position in today's society; teachers and administrators are in an influential position in educating them. Community, parents, and educators alike are poised to enable these students to gain the education they need for success. Chapters by recognized authors and successful...
Exceptional People
Lessons Learned from Special Education Survivors
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2012
Exceptional People: Lessons Learned from Special Education Survivors is a unique work that describes disabled (exceptional) students’ and their parents’ perspectives as they journeyed through the education system. For educators, it provides a window to the souls of the children whose lives they...
Respect for Teachers
The Rhetoric Gap and How Research on Schools is Laying the Ground for New Business Models in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2012
For over 30 years we have been in the midst of a paradox. Following a questionable logic that sees education as a means to economic ends, efforts to reform education have focused on keeping the US from slipping in international economic competition. Relying on testing as a standard, in the end we...
Reality and Education
A New Direction for Educational Policy
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2013
A poorly designed system produces poor results. Problems with the public education system are reported every day in periodicals and books. Improving student achievement is too important a societal issue to continue stumbling along the same unending path of let’s try this educational fad and then...
Consensus
Education Reform Is Possible
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
As we consider the current status of educational reform, it is clear that the United States lacks a clear vision as to how to improve our schools. In the recent past, we have been able to gain support for ideas such as the need for special education programs, free and reduced lunches, pre-school programs,...
Promising Partnerships
Ways to Involve Parents in Their Children's Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2010
The research on parent involvement in education indicates that, in most cases, when parents play an active role in their children's education, academic achievement improves. As a result, schools are now mandated to incorporate parent involvement in the educational process. Educators are faced with...
Innovative Voices in Education
Engaging Diverse Communities
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Diverse schools offer enriched academic and social environments, as students and families of different backgrounds and experiences provide a vibrant mosaic of insights, perspectives, and skills. To take advantage of the unique opportunities that diversity brings, schools must value and effectively...
Breaking the Mold of Education
Innovative and Successful Practices for Student Engagement, Empowerment, and Motivation
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2013
Similar to the previous three volumes, Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21**st Century (Honigsfeld & Cohan, 2010), Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21**st...
by Louis Rosen
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2005
An emphasis among educational policymakers to stress college for all students is neglecting the hopes and aspirations of millions of young people currently in school who either lack interest in academics or the inability to succeed in a more rigorous curriculum. The rationale given for "college...
Fallacies in Education
Why Schools Are Mired in Mediocrity
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2010
This book argues for a complete reassessment of the ways schools are conceived, organized, operated and managed. Authors Trani and Irvine challenge traditional assumptions about grade levels, teachers, students and administrators in pursuit of higher student achievement and academic excellence. Building...
Year-Round Education
Change and Choice for Schools and Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2005
Over the last 20 years, many districts and schools have begun to explore year-round education or a modified calendar in response to student under-achievement in low performing schools. Here, the authors detail their two-year study of Title I, year-round, or modified calendar schools that switched...