Teachers College Press: 606 books
by Arthur T. Jersild
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This book is concerned with the strivings, satisfactions, hopes, and heartaches that pervade the teacher’s life and work. It is based in part on a study of more than 1000 teachers and students of education.“Professor Jersild writes with disarming lucidity about many abstruse conceptions....
We’ve Been Doing It Your Way Long Enough
Choosing the Culturally Relevant Classroom
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Filled with day-to-day literacy practices, this book will help elementary school teachers understand their role in dismantling the imbalance of privilege in literacy education. Chapters take readers into classrooms where they will see, hear, and feel decolonizing and humanizing culturally relevant...
Political Education
Setting the Course for State and Federal Policy, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this volume, political insider Christopher Cross updates his critically acclaimed bestseller with new chapters and important new insights into future education policy. Cross draws on his own experience in Washington, along with research and interviews, to present a highly readable history of federal...
50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools
The Real Crisis in Education
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive...
Early Childhood Systems
Transforming Early Learning
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this seminal volume, leading authorities strategize about how to create early childhood systems that transcend politics and economics to serve the needs of all young children. The authors offer different interpretations of the nature of early childhood systems, discuss the elements necessary to...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
After a decade of educational reforms, The Challenge to Care in Schools is even more relevant now than when it was first published. In her new Introduction, Nel Noddings revisits her seminal book and places care as central to current debates on standardization, accountability, privatization, and...
by Philip J. Piety
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
For better or worse, many educational decisions that were once handled on a personal level by teachers or administrators now increasingly rely upon data and information. To be successful in this era, educators need to understand this broad sociotechnical revolution and how it is realigning traditional...
by Marilyn Cochran-Smith, Molly Cummings Carney, Elizabeth Stringer Keefe
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Teacher accountability has been a major strategy for “fixing” education for the last 2 decades. In this book, Cochran-Smith and her research team argue that it is time for teacher educators to reclaim accountability by adopting a new approach that features intelligent professional responsibility,...
Learning and Not Learning English
Latino Students in American Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Focusing on the lives and experiences of four Mexican children in an American middle school, the critically acclaimed author of Con Respeto examines both the policy and the instructional dilemmas that surround the English language education of immigrant children in this country. Using samples and...
Leading Against the Grain
Lessons for Creating Just and Equitable Schools
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
To help American education leaders create more just and equitable schools, an impressive group of scholars present profiles of a wide range of outstanding historical and contemporary leaders from across the globe, including Wangari Mathaai, John Tippeconic III, Fannie Lou Hamer, Saul Alinsky, Antonia...
Psychology, Poverty, and the End of Social Exclusion
Putting Our Practice to Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Laura Smith argues that if there is any segment of society that should be concerned with the impact of classism and poverty, it is those within the “helping professions”—people who have built their careers around understanding and facilitating human emotional well-being. In this...
Best Practices from High-Performing High Schools
How Successful Schools Help Students Stay in School and Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In their second collaboration, Wilcox and Angelis tell the stories of high school educators who embody best practices in their day-to-day activities—practices that consistently lead to higher student academic achievement across the core subjects for all students. This book shares results of...
by Nel Noddings
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Eminent educational philosopher Nel Noddings draws on John Dewey's foundational work to reimagine education's aims and curriculum for the 21st century. Noddings looks at education as a multi-aim enterprise in which schools must address needs in all three domains of life: home and family, occupational,...
Reading and Representing Across the Content Areas
A Classroom Guide
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
This groundbreaking work redefines traditional ideas of what a “text” should be, incorporating new kinds of multimodal texts to revitalize instruction within and across disciplines. The authors provide examples of innovative representations to aid learning in earth science, language arts,...