"Part I, which covers the theoretical aspects of constructivism, includes chapters from Ernst von Glasersfeld, Catherine Twomey Fosnot, and Paul Cobb. In Part II, Candace Julyan, Eleanor Duckworth, Deborah Schifter, June S. Gould, Rheta DeVries, Betty Zan, and Maxine Greene provide perspectives from the field. Part III, which explores practices in the classroom, features work from Jill Bodner Lester, Susan Cowey, George Forman, Dewey Dyk ..."
"Forever After presents the untold stories of what happened in New York City schools on September 11, 2001. These moving, first-hand accounts reveal the amazing wisdom and courage of public school teachers and administrators who cared for and protected the children in schools near the World Trade Center and around the City. The inspiring stories in this beautiful collection bring into clear focus the enormous responsibility that teachers ..."
"This volume brings together respected scholars to examine the intersections of race, justice, and activism in direct relation to the teaching and learning of critical literacy. The authors focus on literacy praxis that reflect how students--with the loving, critical support of teachers and teacher educators--engage in resistance work and collaborate for social change. Each chapter theorizes how students and adults initiate and/or partic ..."
"This important volume promotes the widespread application of Critical Race Theory (CRT) to better prepare K–12 teachers to bring an informed asset-based approach to teaching today’s highly diverse populations. Part I explores the tradition and longevity of CRT in teacher education. Part II, “Beyond Black and White,” expands CRT into new contexts, including LatCrit, AsianCrit, TribalCrit, QueerCrit, and BlackCrit. Part III looks beyond C ..."
"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 and racially divided Buffalo, New York, and the struggle to open its best schools to students of color, authors Orfield and Ayscue cont ..."
"Learn how exemplary countries are dealing with the challenges and joys of advancing the development of their youngest citizens. In this book, Sharon Lynn Kagan and her contributors systematically examine how six diverse countries go about envisioning, designing, and implementing their services to young children and their families. The Early Advantage 1 sheds light on new and exciting approaches to early childhood education and care (ECE ..."
"While the critical importance of summer reading loss is receiving more attention than in the past, not all summer reading programs are alike. Featuring three new chapters and extensive updating, the second edition of this groundbreaking book describes current research that confirms the importance of key elements in the authors’ summer reading model that are essential to ensure gains for low-income, low-achieving students. Allington and ..."
""We Dare Say Love" takes up the critically important issue of what it means to educate Black male students in a large urban district. It chronicles the development and implementation of the African American Male Achievement Initiative in Oakland Unified School District, following a small group of Black male educators who changed district policy and practice to create a learning experience for Black boys rooted in love. The book takes re ..."
"Do charter schools strengthen students’ educational experience? What are their social costs? This volume brings together a group of premier researchers to address questions about the purposes of charter schools and the role of public policy in shaping the educational agenda. Chapter authors explore topics seldom encountered in the current charter school debate, such as the challenges faced by charter schools in guaranteeing students civ ..."
"What new ideas and ways of thinking can educational leaders learn from great world leaders who have moved their societies to greater equity and expanded educational opportunity? In this lively, accessible volume, the editors have brought together an impressive group of senior and early-career educational scholars to study the lives and contributions of a wide range of outstanding historical and contemporary leaders from the United State ..."
"For first-year teachers entering the nation’s urban schools, the task of establishing a strong and successful practice is often extremely challenging. In this compelling look at first-year teachers’ practice in urban schools, editors Jabari Mahiri and Sarah Warshauer Freedman demonstrate how a program of systematic classroom research by teachers themselves enables them to effectively target instruction and improve their own practice. Th ..."
"Learn the 5 practices for facilitating effective inquiry-oriented classroomsAnticipating what students will do--what strategies they will use--in solving a problem Monitoring their work as they approach the problem in classSelecting students whose strategies are worth discussing in classSequencing those students' presentations to maximize their potential to increase students' learningConnecting the strategies and ideas in a way that hel ..."
"Intended for use with the McCall Crabbs Standard Test Lessons in Reading Books A-E published by Back Home Industries in one hardback book from the 1926, 1959 and 1961 edition. This answer key is not compatible with other later editions with the same title."
"''Creating and Sustaining Online Professional Learning Communities explores the varied, conflicting, productive, and unexpected ways that online communities can contribute to teacher professional development and offers concrete solutions.''-- From the Foreword by Marcia Linn, Graduate School of Education, University of California at BerkeleyThis volume presents the work of trailblazing researchers and developers of electronic communitie ..."
Teaching the Levees A Curriculum for Democratic Dialogue and Civic Engagement to Accompany the HBO Documentary Film Event, Spike Lee's When the Levees Broke: A Requiem in Four Acts by Margaret Smith Crocco, TeachersCollegePress Paperback, 104 Pages, Published 2008 by TeachersCollegePress Teacher's Edition ISBN-13: 978-0-8077-5100-8, ISBN: 0-8077-5100-6
"This new curriculum addresses the issues of citizenship, race, class, and poverty that were raised in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. In September 2007, through a generous collaboration between The Rockefeller Foundation, Teachers College, and HBO, this dynamic teaching tool was distributed to schools, colleges, and community educators as part of a box set that included a copy of Spike Lee and HBO’s epic documentary, “When the Levee ..."
"''There are probably fewer than 10 good studies in the literature on high school reform. The Implementation Gap stands out, making an original and thorough contribution…. This is a well-written, interesting, and insightful book.'' --From the Foreword by Michael Fullan, Professor Emeritus, University of Toronto''The lessons of experience conveyed in this book speak volumes to those engaged in the work of high school reform.'' --Gerald N. ..."
"''Path breaking and prescient, Clifford and Crawford offer a compelling comparative review of early education in developed countries. With thoughtful and detailed contributions from leading international scholars, the volume treats its readers to a vibrant journey through important early education policies and practices. Informative for those interested in United States and international policy, the work is important today, but is essen ..."
"Beginning with an introduction to young children’s projects by Lilian Katz and Judy Helm, A Children’s Journey: Investigating the Fire Truck brings to life the experiences of a group of young investigators in a community early childhood program serving children of all abilities. Through the eyes of teacher Pam Scranton and the children, as revealed within actual classroom footage, the viewer connects to the children’s wonder and curiosi ..."
"This collection of essays will help readers to disentangle the complex relationship between school choice and student diversity in the post-Brown era. Presenting the views of the most prominent researchers of school choice reforms in the U.S., this book argues that the contexts under which school choice plans are adopted are actually responsible for shaping student diversity within schools. Using sociological, economic, and political an ..."
"Offers a critique of the role of the Internet in American schools. Investigates the advertising campaigns and other corporate maneuvers that got schools online, as well as the way that educators use the Web in the classroom."