R L Education: 708 books
Law and American Education
An Instructor's Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2002
Educators working with Palestini's textbook Law and American Education: a Case Brief Approach will find this comprehensive pedagogical tool useful. It contains the full briefs for the cases excerpted in the text, as well as diacritical and pedagogical suggestions. In addition to chapter-by-chapter...
Education Under Siege
Frauds, Fads, Fantasies and Fictions in Educational Reform
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2013
This book analyzes each major reform--No Child Left Behind, Common Core State Standards, grading schools, evaluating teachers, failing students, vouchers, charters, online virtual charters-- and finds them seriously wanting. We conclude with reforms that work actually helping teachers, kids, parents and communities.
Winds of Change
Declaring War on Education
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
As culturally-diverse students feel trapped in failing public schools and abandoned by the system school choice offers a way out and a way up for students who have not succeeded in existing public schools. Many of the intractable problems that plague culturally diverse students are deeply rooted in...
Site-Based Management in Education
How to Make It Work in Your School
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 1996
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Can Schools Survive?
Questions to Ask, Actions to Take
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2014
Can Schools Survive? raises essential questions about the current status of schools and about the future of schools. The book explores vital questions to answer and considers actions to take so schools can begin to thrive. This book will raise the issue of the purpose of a school and the related issue...
by James F. McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 1997
Explores how to define problems, recognize research design issues, and how to interpret data from surveys. Designed to serve the information needs of researchers, analysts, and administrators needing statistical tools for educational research, the presentation is oriented to research for school improvement. Problems with answers included.
Today's Youth, Tomorrow's Leaders
How Parents and Educators Can Influence and Guide the Learning Process
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013
Today’s Youth, Tomorrow’s Leaders is for parents, teachers, caregivers, directors, educators, administrators and all who work with children to encourage learning. This book has examples of effective practices in early childhood education from different countries worldwide. This book will emphasize...
The School Reform Landscape
Fraud, Myth, and Lies
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2013
In The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies, the authors take an in-depth and controversial look at school reform since the launch of Sputnik. They scrutinize school reform events, proposals, and policies from the last 60 years through the lens of critical social theory and examine the...
by Clifton P. Campbell
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 1996
Provides vocational educators with knowledge to prepare students for current workplace conditions.
The Values of American Teachers
How Teachers’ Values Help Stabilize Unsteady Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
Education today is increasingly focused on tests and testing. Teachers are being judged on how much they can increase test scores from one year to the next. These year-to-year gains in scores are part of a "value-added" approach to teacher evaluation, and value-added teacher assessment is...
Flourishing in the First Five Years
Connecting Implications from Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
Flourishing in the First Five Years: Connecting Mind, Brain, and Education Research to the Development of Young Children will take you on a fascinating journey of discovery about what you can do to experience the thrill of helping all young children realize more of their unique potential. Packed with...
Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep
African American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2011
Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep: African American Perspectives on the Achievement Gap examines the origins and perpetuation of the achievement gap from the perspective of the African American community. Instead of accepting the achievement gap as an inevitable matter of fact, Every Closed Eye Ain't Sleep...
Musi-matics!
Music and Arts Integrated Math Enrichment Lessons
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2009
Plan an entire year of an arts-integrated mathematics curriculum with ready-to-use lesson plans and resources designed for elementary classroom and music teachers. Eighteen lesson plans combine the mathematics curriculum with music, movement, and visual art to enrich your classroom instruction and...
The Teachers' Lounge (Uncensored)
A Funny, Edgy, Poignant Look at Life in the Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
Teachers step to the front of the classroom every day and do their darnedest to capture their student’s attention and keep it.
But so many things get in the way: unruly kids, disagreeable parents, homes so broken it is beyond imagining, bureaucracy and red tape, the influence of technology...