Teachers College Press: 606 books
Reclaiming the Multicultural Roots of U.S. Curriculum
Communities of Color and Official Knowledge in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Within curriculum studies, a “master narrative” has developed into a canon that is predominantly White, male, and associated with institutions of higher education. This canon has systematically neglected communities of color, all of which were engaged in their own critical conversations about...
Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning
What Does the Research Say?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this groundbreaking book, nationally recognized leaders in education and psychology examine the relationships between social emotional education and school success—specifically focusing on interventions that enhance student learning. Offering scientific evidence and practical examples, this...
For Our Babies
Ending the Invisible Neglect of America's Infants
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For the last forty years, J. Ronald Lally has worked with state and federal agencies to improve services for infants and toddlers in the United States and abroad. In this new book, Lally paints a stark picture of how our babies have been forced to shoulder the fallout of massive societal changes over...
East Meets West in Teacher Preparation
Crossing Chinese and American Borders
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
East Meets West in Teacher Preparation gives voice to an increasing number of teacher educators from China teaching in America’s universities. With this unique book, American educators can learn about Chinese educational thinking and practices directly from those who have personal and professional...
From A Nation at Risk to No Child Left Behind
National Education Goals and the Creation of Federal Education Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Distinguished historian and policy analyst Maris Vinovskis examines federal K–12 education policies, beginning with the publication of A Nation at Risk and focusing on the National Education Goals, America 2000, Goals 2000, and No Child Left Behind. In addition to discussing key policy debates,...
The University Next Door
What Is a Comprehensive University, Who Does it Educate, and Can It Survive?
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The challenges public comprehensive universities face today are expanding—they have been challenged to enroll and graduate more students, adopt new technologies that lower cost without sacrificing quality, and align program and curricular offerings with the skills that employers require. While...
Repositioning Educational Leadership
Practitioners Leading from an Inquiry Stance
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking volume encourages today’s educational leaders to reposition the way they think about leadership and its challenges. Experienced school and district leaders reveal how they conceptualize their roles, how they learn by posing and solving problems of practice, and how they cope...
Classroom Observer
Developing Observation Skills in Early Childhood Settings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Systematic observation is essential for educators to evaluate properly the effectiveness of curricula and to address the problems of individual students. This new third edition emphasizes early childhood, and focuses on those skills that will enable the observer to make appropriate, valid inferences...
Strengths-Based Approaches to Educating All Learners with Disabilities
Beyond Special Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Michael Wehmeyer, a leading scholar with over four decades of experience as a teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate, provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, he...
Rallying the Whole Village
The Comer Process for Reforming Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For three decades now, the Yale School Development Program’s “whole village” approach has been transforming schools into places where students learn, develop, and thrive. Even students at risk become eminently successful in the same schools when SDP practices are established. With nearly 600...
Leading for Change in Early Care and Education
Cultivating Leadership from Within
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Featuring both research findings and practical recommendations, this book presents an innovative framework for nurturing leadership in the care and education of young children. Early educators are often seen as the objects of change, rather than the architects and co-creators of change. Douglass calls...
Reasoning With Democratic Values 2.0, Volume 2
Ethical Issues in American History, 1866 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The extensively updated edition presents an engaging approach to teaching U.S. history that promotes critical thinking and social responsibility. In Volume 2, students investigate 19 significant historical episodes beginning with the era of expansion and reform and ending with problems facing Americans...
Discrimination in Elite Public Schools
Investigating Buffalo
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
School choice is an increasingly important part of today’s educational landscape and this timely volume presents fresh research about the competitive admissions policies of choice systems. Based on their investigation of a unique civil rights challenge to school choice admissions policies in politically...
by Yong Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Yong Zhao shines a light on the long-ignored phenomenon of side effects of education policies and practices, bringing a fresh and perhaps surprising perspective to evidence-based practices and policies. Identifying the adverse effects of some of the “best” educational interventions with examples...