Teachers College Press: 606 books
Class Rules
Exposing Inequality in American High Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Class Rules challenges the popular myth that high schools are the “Great Equalizers.” In his groundbreaking study, Cookson demonstrates that adolescents undergo different class rites of passage depending on the social-class composition of the high school they attend. Drawing on stories...
Gender, Bullying, and Harassment
Strategies to End Sexism and Homophobia in Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While there have been countless studies of bullying and harassment in schools, none have examined the key gender issues related to these behaviors. In her new book, Meyer does just that and offers readers tangible and flexible suggestions to help them positively transform the culture of their school...
Creating Solidarity Across Diverse Communities
International Perspectives in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this important book, experts from around the globe come together to examine what solidarity in multicultural societies might mean and how it might be built. With a variety of analytical perspectives and findings, the authors present original research conducted in the United States, New Zealand,...
by Frederick M. Hess, Michael B. Horn
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The growth of for-profit providers in the K–16 education sector has generated more than its share of controversy. From the emergence of charter schools to post-secondary options like the University of Phoenix, for-profit providers have been lauded for their capacity to serve historically underserved...
Breakaway Learners
Strategies for Post-Secondary Success with At-Risk Students
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This powerful book explores how institutions of higher education can successfully serve “breakaway” students—first-generation, low-income students who are trying to break away from the past in order to create a more secure future. The gap between low-SES and high-SES students persists...
New York City Public Schools from Brownsville to Bloomberg
Community Control and Its Legacy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
When New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg centralized control of the city’s schools in 2002, he terminated the city’s 32-year experiment with decentralized school control dubbed by the mayor and the media as the “Bad Old Days.” Decentralization grew out of the community control movement of...
Silenced Voices and Extraordinary Conversations
Re-Imagining Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Two noted educators invite new and veteran teachers on an intellectual guided tour through the troubles of bad practice and the delights of good. This volume is a collection of classic essays—as urgently needed now as when they first appeared—on social class, race, gender, and schooling crafted...
Whole School Projects
Engaging Imaginations Through Interdisciplinary Inquiry
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this new and practical contribution to the importance of imagination in learning, Kieran Egan and his colleagues demonstrate how individual contributions to a coherent large-scale project can produce enormous results of great educational value. Helping all participants to feel pride for more than...
First Freire
Early Writings in Social Justice Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his new book, Carlos Alberto Torres, an internationally renowned critical theorist of education, explores the early writings of Paulo Freire whose ideas have had a tremendous and long-lasting impact on the world of pedagogy and politics. Torres analyzes Freire’s works, from the 1960s and...
by Jane F. Schielack, Stephanie L. Knight
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
“You hold in your hands a model for how to turn complex partnerships among scientists, educational researchers, and practitioners into effective learning ecologies. . . . This volume provides helpful insights on how to plan and execute long-term professional engagement that is situated in...
Fun and Fundamental Math for Young Children
Building a Strong Foundation in PreKGrade 2
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Educators of young children who don’t yet know the work of Marian Small are in for a gift—a treasure trove to enhance their teaching and thinking about math. This book focuses on the most important concepts and skills needed to provide early learners (preK–2) with a strong foundation in mathematics,...
Education Reform
A Self-Scrutinizing Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Professor Sarason candidly confronts his “errors of omission and commission, mistakes, and emphases” in his half-century involvement in educational reform. No other major figure in this arena has made public such a searching self-critique. Sharing his thoughts about the future of...
by Jimmy Santiago Baca, Kym Sheehan, Denise VanBriggle
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Jimmy Santiago Baca, one of the foremost poets in America today, collaborates with two literacy professionals to present a teaching tool that includes curricular activities and probing questions crafted to help students heal through writing. Each exercise reinforces the theme that self-esteem borne...
Finnish Lessons 2.0
What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The first edition of Finnish Lessons won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2013. It was featured inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Guardian, CNN, Education Week, The Huffington Post, and Dan Rather Reports and has been translated...