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Focused Observations
How to Observe Young Children for Assessment and Curriculum Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
This books is for caregivers and classroom teachers of children from birth through age 5.
This book can be course adopted in early childhood methods classes.
A new chapter on portfolio development is included. Additional updates include references to the third edition of the National...
Declaring War Against Schooling
Personalizing Learning Now
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Declaring War Against Schooling documents 100 years of educational wars between Visionary learning leaders and Traditional school people. Ironically, to win the existing war, both opposing groups must unify to overthrow the control of education by politicians.
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The Graveyard of School Reform
Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
The Graveyard of School Reform: Why the Resistance to Change and New Ideas explores the critical role resistance plays in defeating valued programs for students, parents, and staff. It is time for education reformers to face the hard truths about the skilled and destructive forces of resisters and...
Re-Engaging Students for Success
Planning for the Education Teaching Performance Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
As of spring 2015 in the states of New York, Tennessee, Washington, and Wisconsin all pre-service teacher candidates are required to pass the Education Teaching Performance Assessment to earn initial teaching certification. California, Georgia, Ohio and Massachusetts are planning to adopt the edTPA...
by James H. Stronge, Xu Xianxuan
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
For years, students in the United States have lagged behind students in many other countries on such measures of achievement as the PISA and TIMSS assessments. In an increasingly globalized world, such a gap is worrisome. Armed with statistics, examples, and cautionary tales from Scandinavia to Japan,...
Straitjacket
How Overregulation Stifles Creativity and Innovation in Education
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2013
Public schools have been placed in a straitjacket over the past 30 years through overregulation as a result of the growing power of the federal government over public education, expanding court decisions, state government legislation, school board policies and procedures, and the media's influence...
by Kevin K. Kumashiro
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In his latest book, leading educator and author Kevin Kumashiro takes aim at the current debate on educational reform, paying particular attention to the ways that scapegoating public school teachers, teacher unions, and teacher educators masks the real, systemic problems. He convincingly demonstrates...
Political Agendas for Education
From Make America Great Again to Stronger Together
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Following the epic, contentious 2016 presidential election, Joel Spring’s ongoing documentation and analysis of political agendas for education reflect the major political issues since 2012. Here he examines the 2016 education planks of the Republican, Democratic, Libertarian, and Green Parties,...
Barriers to Excellence
The Changes Needed for Our Schools
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2012
Barriers to Excellence: The Changes Needed for Our Schools brings a new and different viewpoint to our educational problems in the United States. The reasons behind the academic decline we have seen over the last several decades, the continued inequity in our schools, and the frustration with inconsistent...
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...
To Teach
The Journey, in Comics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” We meet fellow travelers from...
A Light In Dark Times
Maxine Greene and the Unfinished Conversation
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A Light in Dark Times features a list of extraordinary contributors who have been deeply influenced by Professor Greene’s progressive philosophies. While Maxine Greene is the focus for this collection, each chapter is an encounter with her ideas by an educator concerned with his or her own works...
On the Side of the Child
Summerhill Revisited
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A. S. Neill’s radical approach to child rearing is as controversial today as it was in 1960. Neill’s “code of freedom” emphasized the principles of freedom, love, and positive discipline in the care and education of children. These ideals continue to evoke admiration by many who...
Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning
A Guide to Theory and Practice
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2016
The third edition of Patricia Cranton’s Understanding and Promoting Transformative Learning brings a wealth of new insight from the tremendous growth in the field during the decade since the previous edition. As in the previous editions, the book helps adult educators understand what transformative...