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The War against Excellence
The Rising Tide of Mediocrity in America's Middle Schools
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2005
Here, veteran teacher Cheri Pierson Yecke details the chronological history of the middle school movement in the U. S. by tracing its evolution from academically-oriented junior high schools to the dissolution of academics in the middle schools of the late 1980s and beyond. In this book, evidence...
by Johanna M. Lockhart
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Fundamentals of School Marketing begins with a clear presentation of the benefits of school marketing and defines exactly what school marketing is and what it is not. The book then provides a step-by-step guide to planning and initiating a successful school marketing program. Considerable attention...
Social Justice Education
Inviting Faculty to Transform Their Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
"This collection of essays on social justice in higher education is at once practical and inspiring. Editors Skubikowski, Wright, and Graf have selected essays that explore how faculty can work to infuse social justice goals at multiple levels in higher education, including the theoretical, intra- and...
Reading the World, the Globe, and the Cosmos
Approaches to Teaching Literature for the Twenty-first Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2014
This book won the 2014 AESA (American Educational Studies Association) Critics Choice Award.
The purpose of this book is restore the centrality of pedagogy in governing the ways literary texts are received, experienced, and interpreted by students in the classroom. Utilizing a method of pedagogical...
Stop High-Stakes Testing
An Appeal to America's Conscience
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2007
Stop High-Stakes Testing: An Appeal to America's Conscience is a compelling indictment of the use of high-stakes assessments with punitive consequences in our public schools. The authors trace the history of the policy and document the inequities for children of poverty that undergird high-stakes...
Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools
The Real War on Literacy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2005
Marketing Fear in America's Public Schools: The Real War on Literacy is an eye-opening examination of the real world consequences of the political pressures and influences on teachers today. In particular, it looks at how the political actions of the conservative right disempower and control teachers,...
Storied Inquiries in International Landscapes
An Anthology of Educational Research
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Storied Lives: Emancipatory Educational Inquiry—Experience, Narrative, & Pedagogy in the International Landscape of Diversity contains exemplary research practices, strategies, and findings gleaned from the contributions to the 15 issues of the Journal of Critical Inquiry Into Curriculum and Instruction...
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond
The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2007
Addressing Social Issues in the Classroom and Beyond: The Pedagogical Efforts of Pioneers in the Field is comprised of essays that delineate the genesis and evolution of the thought and work of pioneers in the field of social issues and education. The authors (many of whom, themselves, are noted professors...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2005
Debating is out of fashion. No one raises the question of what has gone wrong when the entire political project of a society is seemingly reduced to 'education, education, education'.
The aim of this lively and challenging book is to provide the stimulus for further thinking about key educational...
Conflicts in Culture
Strategies to Understand and Resolve the Issues
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2013
The changing demographics of students and educators in schools today suggest that much of what we do as educational leaders revolves around the complex issues related to our various cultural understandings. In this book the authors discuss the relationship between culture and conflict and provide...
by Mahsood Shah, Chenicheri Sid Nair, John Richardson
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2016
Measuring and Enhancing the Student Experience provides insights on how student experience measures could be used to inform improvements at institutional, course, unit of study and teacher level. The book is based on a decade of research and practitioner views on ways to enhance the design, conduct,...
Star Target Guide: Situation + Task + Action & Resolution = Directions for Getting Everyday Results!
Star Target Guide: Situation + Task + Action & Resolution = Directions for Getting Everyday Results!
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
S.T.A.R. is an acronym that stands for * Situation * Task * Action * Result.
The STAR TARGET GUIDE is aimed at learning basic goal oriented thinking in a quick tip format. This is not a lengthy read, but rather a get-to-the-brass-tacks-point guidebook. Includes an explanation of the STAR concept...
An Improbable Life
My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2014
Columbia University began the second half of the twentieth century in decline, bottoming out with the student riots of 1968. Yet by the close of the century, the institution had regained its stature as one of the greatest universities in the world.
According to the New York Times, "If...
Great South African Teachers
A Tribute to South Africa's Great Teachers from the People Whose Lives They Changed
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2011
At a time when newspapers are full of the woes of the South African education system and stories of teachers who let the children in their classes down, this book shows that this is not the whole picture; it is a celebration of heroic teachers who have struggled against great odds to give their students...