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Johns Hopkins University Press World Class Worldwide Transforming Research
Book SynopsisThey address the special challenges of establishing and maintaining these institutions; the role of information technology; how research universities train leaders and foster scientific innovation; and the extent to which the private sector can and should be involved in funding and development.Trade ReviewMakes a unique contribution to the study of research universities in Asia and Latin America. -- Jung Cheol Shin Higher Education 2007 Rich in information, analysis, and perspectives. It can be recommended with confidence to students and scholars. -- Philippe Debroux Asia Pacific Business Review 2008 An informative and insightful book... worth reading not only for those interested in comparative education but for anyone concerned with understanding the economic future of Asia and Latin America. -- Michael J. Seth Pacific Affairs 2009 Policymakers and university administrators who read [this book] will gain in depth understanding of the challenges of building research-oriented universities in middle-income and developing countries. -- Hannah H. Covert The Americas 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Empires of Knowledge and DevelopmentPart I: AsiaChapter 2. The Flagship University and China's Economic ReformChapter 3. Research Universities in China: Differentiation, Classification, and Future World-Class StatusChapter 4. Beyond Retailing Knowledge: Prospects of Research-Oriented Universities in IndiaChapter 5. Prospects for World-Class Research Universities in IndiaChapter 6. The Making of a World-Class University at the Periphery: Seoul National UniversityPart II: Latin AmericaChapter 7. Brazil's Leading University: Original Ideas and Contemporary GoalsChapter 8. Brazilian Research UniversitiesChapter 9. La Máxima Casa de Estudios: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México as a State-Building UniversityChapter 10. The Role of Research Universities in Mexico: A Change of Paradigm?Chapter 11. Are There Research Universities in Chile?Chapter 12. The Challenge of Building Research Universities in Middle-Income Countries: The Case of the University of Buenos AiresChapter 13. Higher Education Policy and the Research University: In Asia and Latin AmericaContributors Index
£72.68
Johns Hopkins University Press World Class Worldwide Transforming Research
Book SynopsisThey address the special challenges of establishing and maintaining these institutions; the role of information technology; how research universities train leaders and foster scientific innovation; and the extent to which the private sector can and should be involved in funding and development.Trade ReviewMakes a unique contribution to the study of research universities in Asia and Latin America. -- Jung Cheol Shin Higher Education 2007 Rich in information, analysis, and perspectives. It can be recommended with confidence to students and scholars. -- Philippe Debroux Asia Pacific Business Review 2008 An informative and insightful book... worth reading not only for those interested in comparative education but for anyone concerned with understanding the economic future of Asia and Latin America. -- Michael J. Seth Pacific Affairs 2009 Policymakers and university administrators who read [this book] will gain in depth understanding of the challenges of building research-oriented universities in middle-income and developing countries. -- Hannah H. Covert The Americas 2009Table of ContentsPrefaceChapter 1. Empires of Knowledge and DevelopmentPart I: AsiaChapter 2. The Flagship University and China's Economic ReformChapter 3. Research Universities in China: Differentiation, Classification, and Future World-Class StatusChapter 4. Beyond Retailing Knowledge: Prospects of Research-Oriented Universities in IndiaChapter 5. Prospects for World-Class Research Universities in IndiaChapter 6. The Making of a World-Class University at the Periphery: Seoul National UniversityPart II: Latin AmericaChapter 7. Brazil's Leading University: Original Ideas and Contemporary GoalsChapter 8. Brazilian Research UniversitiesChapter 9. La Máxima Casa de Estudios: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México as a State-Building UniversityChapter 10. The Role of Research Universities in Mexico: A Change of Paradigm?Chapter 11. Are There Research Universities in Chile?Chapter 12. The Challenge of Building Research Universities in Middle-Income Countries: The Case of the University of Buenos AiresChapter 13. Higher Education Policy and the Research University: In Asia and Latin AmericaContributors Index
£39.00
Johns Hopkins University Press TwentiethCentury Higher Education Elite to Mass
Book SynopsisThose seriously interested in the emergence of mass higher education, and the debates surrounding it, will appreciate finding many of Trow's groundbreaking works-including three articles never before published-in a single volume.Trade ReviewHighly instructive. -- Darko Strajn International Review of EducationTable of ContentsIntroductionPart I: Emergence of an Enduring ThemeChapter 1. The Second Transformation of American Secondary EducationChapter 2. Problems in the Transition from Elite to Mass Higher EducationChapter 3. Elite Higher Education: An Endangered Species?Part II: Causes and Consequences of America's AdvantageChapter 4. Federalism in American Higher EducationChapter 5. Class, Race, and Higher Education in AmericaPart III: Britain as a Contrasting CaseChapter 6. Academic Standards and Mass Higher EducationChapter 7. Managerialism and the Academic Profession: The Case of EnglandPart IV: The Private Lives of American UniversitiesChapter 8. The Campus as a Context for Learning: Notes on Education and ArchitectureChapter 9. The American Academic Department as a Context for LearningChapter 10. Guests without Hosts: Notes on the Institute for Advanced StudyChapter 11. New Directions for the Center for Studies in Higher Education: The 1977–78 Annual ReportPart V: Governance and Reform of the American UniversityChapter 12. Leadership and Organization: The Case of Biology at BerkeleyChapter 13. Comparative Reflections on Leadership in Higher EducationChapter 14. Governance in the University of California: The Transformation of Politics into AdministrationChapter 15. California after Racial PreferencesPart VI: The Completion of the TransformationChapter 16. From Mass Higher Education to Universal Access: The American AdvantageChapter 17. Reflections on the Transition from Elite to Mass to Universal Access: Forms and Phases of Higher Education in Modern Societies since World War IIContributorsAbout the Author Index
£999.99
Johns Hopkins University Press The American Academic Profession Transformation
Book SynopsisA comprehensive analysis of the significant questions facing this crucial profession, The American Academic Profession will be welcomed by students and scholars as well as by administrators and policy makers concerned with the future of the academy.Trade ReviewVery highly recommended. Choice The five sections in The American Academic Profession provide a wide range of insights about changes in the faculty role at research universities. -- Todd Lundberg & Clifton F. Conrad Teachers College RecordTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroduction. The Professoriate's Perilous PathPart I: Structural and Cognitive ChangeChapter 1. Optimizing Research and Teaching: The Bifurcation of Faculty Roles at Research UniversitiesChapter 2. Focus on the Classroom: Movements to Reform College Teaching and Learning, 1980– 2008Chapter 3. Whose Educational Space? Negotiating Professional Jurisdiction in the High-Tech AcademyChapter 4. American Academe and the Knowledge-Politics ProblemPart II: Socialization and DevianceChapter 5. The Socialization of Future Faculty in a Changing Context: Traditions, Challenges, and PossibilitiesChapter 6. Professionalism in Graduate Teaching and MentoringPart III: Experience of the Academic CareerChapter 7. Scholarly Learning and the Academic Profession in a Time of ChangeChapter 8. Anomie in the American Academic ProfessionPart IV: Autonomy and RegulationChapter 9. Academic Freedom, Professional Autonomy, and the StateChapter 10. Codes of Commerce: The Uses of Business Rhetoric in the American Academy, 1960– 2000Chapter 11. The Meaning of Regulation in a Changing Academic ProfessionPart V: Contemporary and Historical ViewsChapter 12. Professional Control in the Complex University: Maintaining the Faculty RoleChapter 13. All That Glittered Was Not Gold: Rethinking American Higher Education's Golden Age, 1945– 1970Contributors Index
£45.50
Beacon Press FeelBad Education Contrarian Essays on Children
Book SynopsisMind-opening writing on what kids need from school, from one of education’s most outspoken voices Arguing that our schools are currently in the grip of a “cult of rigor”—a confusion of harder with better that threatens to banish both joy and meaningful intellectual inquiry from our classrooms—Alfie Kohn issues a stirring call to rethink our priorities and reconsider our practices. Kohn’s latest wide-ranging collection of writings will add to his reputation as one of the most incisive thinkers in the field, who questions the assumptions too often taken for granted in discussions about education and human behavior. In nineteen recently published essays—and in a substantive introduction, new for this volume—Kohn repeatedly invites us to think more deeply about the conventional wisdom. Is self-discipline always desirable? he asks, citing surprising evidence to the contrary. Does academic che
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Beacon Press Making Americans
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Beacon Press The Spirit of Our Work
Book SynopsisAn exploration of how engaging identity and cultural heritage can transform teaching and learning for Black women educators in the name of justice and freedom in the classroomIn The Spirit of Our Work, Dr. Cynthia Dillard centers the spiritual lives of Black women educators and their students, arguing that spirituality has guided Black people throughout the diaspora. She demonstrates how Black women teachers and teacher educators can heal, resist, and (re)member their identities in ways that are empowering for them and their students. Dillard emphasizes that any discussion of Black teachers’ lives and work cannot be limited to truncated identities as enslaved persons in the Americas.The Spirit of Our Work addresses questions that remain largely invisible in what is known about teaching and teacher education. According to Dillard, this invisibility renders the powerful approaches to Black education that are imbodied and marshaled by Black women
£12.59
Beacon Press When the Light Goes On
Book SynopsisThe final work from one of the most beloved voices in American education explores stories and lessons of transformative experiences in educationFor more than a generation, American education has been structured as though it was built of and for concepts, not people. This has transformed education into a vast assessment, scoring, and ranking enterprise; a sales platform for high-tech entrepreneurs; and a fiercely competitive arena of advantage and status that grinds the poor and propels the middle class into debt.In When the Light Goes On, educator Mike Rose features the stories of people of all ages and backgrounds to illuminate how education has added meaning to their lives. The inspiring stories include: A supermarket checker whose job wore away his soul takes a remedial math class that starts him on a path to architecture school A young man badly injured in a motorcycle accident finds both rehabilitation and a career in a
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Beacon Press School Moms
Book SynopsisAn investigative study of the far-right’s attack on education and an on-the-ground look at the parent activist battle, on either side of the debate, to control the future of public schoolsFor well over a century, public schools have been a non-partisan gathering place and vital center of civic life in America—but something has changed. In School Moms, journalist Laura Pappano explores the on-the-ground story of how public schools across the country have become ground zero in a cultural and political war as the far-right have made efforts to seek power over school boards.Pappano argues that the rise of parent activism is actually the culmination of efforts that began in the 1990s after campaigns to stop sex education largely fizzled. Recent efforts to make public schools more responsive and inclusive, as well as the pandemic, have offered openings the far-right have been waiting for to organize and sway parents, who are frustrated and exhausted
£22.95
Beacon Press School Moms
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£15.29
Beacon Press The Power of Their Ideas
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£16.00
Beacon Press Reading Writing and Racism
Book SynopsisAn examination of how curriculum choices can perpetuate White supremacy, and radical strategies for how schools and teacher education programs can disrupt and transform racism in educationWhen racist curriculum “goes viral” on social media, it is typically dismissed as an isolated incident from a “bad” teacher. Educator Bree Picower, however, holds that racist curriculum isn’t an anomaly. It’s a systemic problem that reflects how Whiteness is embedded and reproduced in education. In Reading, Writing, and Racism, Picower argues that White teachers must reframe their understanding about race in order to advance racial justice and that this must begin in teacher education programs.Drawing on her experience teaching and developing a program that prepares teachers to focus on social justice and antiracism, Picower demonstrates how teachers’ ideology of race, consciously or unconsciously, shapes how they teach race in th
£14.39
Beacon Press The Choice We Face
Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today.Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, exclusion, and inequality. Through evaluating historic and contemporary education policies, Hale demonstrates how reframing the way we see school choice represents an opportunity to evolve from complicity to action.The idea of school choice, which emerged in the 1950s during the civil rights movement, was disguised by American rhetoric as a symbol of freedom and individualism. Shaped by the ideas of conservative economist Milton Friedman, the school choice movement was a weapon used to oppose integration and maintain racist and classist inequalities. Still supported by
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Beacon Press We Want to Do More Than Survive Abolitionist
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book AwardDrawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists.Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex.To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom
£20.70
Beacon Press The Choice We Face
Book SynopsisA comprehensive history of school choice in the US, from its birth in the 1950s as the most effective weapon to oppose integration to its lasting impact in reshaping the public education system today.Most Americans today see school choice as their inalienable right. In The Choice We Face, scholar Jon Hale reveals what most fail to see: school choice is grounded in a complex history of race, exclusion, and inequality. Through evaluating historic and contemporary education policies, Hale demonstrates how reframing the way we see school choice represents an opportunity to evolve from complicity to action.The idea of school choice, which emerged in the 1950s during the civil rights movement, was disguised by American rhetoric as a symbol of freedom and individualism. Shaped by the ideas of conservative economist Milton Friedman, the school choice movement was a weapon used to oppose integration and maintain racist and classist inequalities. Still supported by
£22.95
Beacon Press When the Light Goes On
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MP-SIL Southern Illinois Uni Southern Illinois University at 150 Years
Book SynopsisChartered in 1869, Southern Illinois University has been a stalwart presence on the southern Illinois landscape for a century and a half. This book celebrates the 150th anniversary of the university's founding by exploring in depth its history since 1969, when the last book to celebrate a major anniversary was published.
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Rowman & Littlefield Publishers The Myths of Standardized Tests
Book SynopsisThis book proposes better ways to judge the success of our schools and offering readers suggestions for ways they can help reduce the burden of tests on their children.Trade ReviewJust imagine if half the politicians, administrators, and journalists in this country, so many of whom confuse higher test scores with better schooling, were to read this book. In friendly, accessible prose, Harris, Smith, and Harris examine—and explode—each of the assumptions that underlies standardized testing. The more you learn about the tests themselves, as well as how the results are interpreted and used, the more skeptical you become. And The Myths of Standardized Tests is an excellent way to learn, regardless of whether you’re an educator who’s already knowledgeable . . . or a test-score-citing official who clearly needs to start from scratch. -- Alfie Kohn, author of The Schools Our Children Deserve and Feel-Bad EducationReader-friendly, this book explains what parents and teachers and concerned citizens need to know to work for the survival of public education for democracy. -- Susan Ohanian, educator, activist, and author of "What Happened to Recess and Why Are Our Children Struggling in Kindergarten?"This book is true like a plumb line. With clarity and insight, it drops us right into the heart of the most central emergency we have in public education today—the unrelenting obsession with standardized testing. The authors are extremely well-informed, easy to read, and not afraid to take a stand. What a breath of fresh air! -- Ken Jones, University of Southern MaineThis book takes this thorny topic of standardized testing and covers everything in a sophisticated, nuanced, and lively way. The best on the subject I've yet to come across. -- Deborah Meier, NYU SteinhardtIn the era of No Child Left Behind, the number of books decrying the reliance on standardized testing has ballooned....Here, Harris (executive director, Assn. for Educational Communications & Technology), Bruce Smith (former editor in chief, Phi DeltaKappan), and award-winning elementary school teacher Joan Harris intersperse their own personal experiences with testing among the book's chapters, which detail their evidence on the failures of standardized tests. The final two chapters contain recommended alternative accountability schemes for evaluating the success of students and schools. The book also includes a glossary of terms and a resource guide that lists research centers and organizations that focus on the topic of improving schools and education policy. Thought-provoking reading for educators and parents. * Library Journal *Question: How can a book about educational testing be a “page-turner?” Answer: When it’s written by a trio of smart, test-savvy authors who make a reader want to learn everything treated in this engaging expose of standardized testing’s foibles. Ultra-timely, this book should be mandatory reading for all educators—and everyone else! -- W James Popham, professor emeritus, University of California, Los AngelesIn the era of No Child Left Behind, the number of books decrying the reliance on standardized testing has ballooned....Here, Harris (executive director, Assn. for Educational Communications & Technology), Bruce Smith (former editor in chief, Phi Delta Kappan), and award-winning elementary school teacher Joan Harris intersperse their own personal experiences with testing among the book's chapters, which detail their evidence on the failures of standardized tests. The final two chapters contain recommended alternative accountability schemes for evaluating the success of students and schools. The book also includes a glossary of terms and a resource guide that lists research centers and organizations that focus on the topic of improving schools and education policy. Thought-provoking reading for educators and parents. * Library Journal *The book explains, using a load of research, why high-stakes standardized tests are less objective than many people believe, why they don’t adequately measure student achievement, how the results distort the validity of the assessment system, how these tests “inadvertently” lead young people to become “superficial thinkers,” and much more. The easy-to-read book does not only look at what’s wrong with tests but also discusses what “genuine accountability” looks like. * The Washington Post *Table of ContentsPart 1 Introduction: This Is Not a Test Part 2 Chapter 1. Misunderstanding Accountability: The Big Picture Part 3 Chapter 2. The Tests Are Too Narrow Part 4 Chapter 3. The Tests Don't Measure Achievement Adequately Chapter 5 Testing Autobiography: Phil's Story Part 6 Chapter 4. The Tests Are Less Than Objective Chapter 7 Testing Autobiography: Bruce's Story Part 8 Chapter 5. Rewards and Punishments Don't Motivate Chapter 9 Testing Autobiography: Joan's Story Part 10 Chapter 6. The Distortions of High Stakes Part 11 Chapter 7. What's Left Out? Part 12 Chapter 8. Why Not More Direct Measurement? Part 13 Chapter 9. The Tests Don't Predict Well Part 14 Chapter 10. New Ideas for Genuine Accountability Part 15 Chapter 11. What's It All About? Part 16 Resource Guide Part 17 A Medley of Views Chapter 18 'Reading' the Reading Tests Chapter 19 Misunderstood Measurement Mallets Chapter 20 A Use of Tests I Could Support Chapter 21 Within Limits, Tests Can Be Useful Chapter 22 Kids or Cows? Chapter 23 The Tests We Need Today Chapter 24 A Smokescreen Chapter 25 The Game of School Part 26 Say What?: An Abbreviated Glossary
£30.00
The University Press of Kentucky The Mentelles
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John Wiley & Sons What Every College Student Should Know How to
Book SynopsisA guide to discovering the best teachers at your school or college and learning everything you can from them. Case studies provide real-life examples of how to put ideas into practice as the authors show how to evaluate professors, what to look for in a syllabus and what resources to check.Table of ContentsAcknowledgments Introduction: Why Students Need This Book 1. Before Classes Begin: Finding Good Teachers 2. In the Classroom: Getting the Most our of Good Teachers 3. Outside the Classroom: Cultivating Relationships with Good Teachers 4. After Class: Building on Relationships with Good Teachers 5. The Ins and Outs of Recommendations Afterword: Why Bad Teaching Persists A Guide to Academic Vocabulary
£999.99
University of Arizona Press Aztlán Arizona
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University of Minnesota Press Organizing for Educational Justice The Campaign
Book SynopsisTable of ContentsAcknowledgments, Abbreviations, Introduction: Resetting the Agenda, Part I. Community Power and Education Reform, 1. Democracy, Community, and the Crisis of Public Education, 2. The Collaborative to Improve School District 9, Part II. A Moral Obligation to Act, 3. Creating a Platform for Change, 4. Attending to the Base and Consolidating Alliances, 5. Building Community to Change Community, 6. Launching the Lead Teacher Campaign, Part III. The Future of Education Reform, 7. Growing Community Power, 8. Grassroots Democracy and Parent Organizing, Epilogue: The Ongoing Work for Educational Justice, Bibliography, Index
£22.37
University of Minnesota Press A Measure of Success
Book SynopsisA Measure of Success provides a comprehensive picture of CBM progress monitoring.Trade Review"A Measure of Success provides insight into the development, history, research, and practical applications of Curriculum-Based Measurement (CBM). Although many in the field of special education know about and perhaps teach or use CBM, not many of us understand the impetus for Stanley Deno’s original idea for an efficient way to measure student progress, or the level of research supporting the use of CBM. This collection provides testament to his commitment to improving skills of teachers and other school personnel so they may positively impact student outcomes." —Dr. Janie Hodge, Clemson University"To gather so much expertise into one volume is a great way to help readers deepen their understanding of an idea that is beautiful in its simplicity, yet complex in its scope and impact." —Dr. Evelyn Johnson, Boise State UniversityTable of ContentsContentsAbbreviationsIntroduction Christine Espin, Kristen L. McMaster, and Susan Rose1. Curriculum-Based Measurement: The Paradigm, History, and Legacy Joseph R. Jenkins and Lynn S. Fuchs Part I. Contributions to Educational Policy and Practice2. A Review of Deno and Mirkin’s Special Education Resource Teacher (SERT) Model: An Early Effort to Reconcile the Right to Social Integration with a Need for Effective InstructionDouglas Fuchs and Renee Bradley3. Using Curriculum-Based Measurement to Develop Educationally Meaningful and Legally Sound Individual Education Programs (IEPs)Mitchell L. Yell and Todd W. Busch4. When the “Emerging Alternative” Becomes the StandardJohn L. Hosp and Michelle K. HospPart II: School-Based and District-Wide Applications5. School and District-wide Implementation of Curriculum-Based Measurement in the Minneapolis Public SchoolsDoug Marston6. Implementing Data-Based Program Modification Big Ideas Gary Germann7. The Contribution of Curriculum-Based Measurement to Response to Intervention: Research, Policy and School PracticeKim Gibbons and Ann CaseyPart III. Applications in Elementary School Education8. How Curriculum-Based Measures Help Us Detect Word Recognition Problems in First GradersEric Dion, Isabelle Dubé, Catherine Roux, Danika Landry, and Laurence Bergeron9. How Progress Monitoring Research Contributed to Early Intervention for and Prevention of Reading DifficultyRoland H. Good III, Ruth A. Kaminski, Hank Fien, Kelly A. Powell-Smith, and Kelli D. Cummings10. Technological Applications of Curriculum-Based Measurement inElementary Settings: CBM in the Digital AgeErica Lembke, Kristen McMaster, and Pamela M. SteckerPart IV. Applications in Secondary School Education11. Big Ideas and Core Values: The Influence of Stanley Deno’s Work on Secondary Mathematics Progress MonitoringAnne Foegen12. They’re Getting Older . . . but Are They Getting Better? The Influence of Curriculum-Based Measurement on Programming for Secondary-School Students with Learning DisabilitiesChristine Espin and Heather M. Campbell Part V. Applications in General Education Settings13. Curriculum-Based Measurement at Larue Elementary: They Said it Couldn’t be Done!Amanda Kloo, Charles D. Machesky, and Naomi Zigmond14. Curriculum-Based Measurement Progress Monitoring and the Health of General Education Deborah L. SpeecePart VI. Applications for Special School Populations15. Curriculum-Based Measurement and English Language Learners: District-Wide Academic Norms for Special Education EligibilitySteven L. Robinson, Margaret J. Robinson, and Lionel A. Blatchley16. A Tribute to Stanley Deno: Curriculum-Based Measurement for English Learners in First GradeAnne W. Graves17. Extending Curriculum-Based Measurement to Assess Performance of Students with Significant Cognitive DisabilitiesTeri Wallace and Renáta TicháPart VII. Applications in State Assessments of Schools18. How Curriculum-Based Measurement Progress Monitoring Contributes to the Alignment of Instruction and State Adopted Standards and Assessments Greg Roberts, Jeanne Wanzek, and Sharon Vaughn19. Curriculum-Based Measures: Application with State AssessmentsGerald Tindal20. Curriculum-Based Measurement, Progress Monitoring, and StateAssessmentsJames G. Shriner and Martha L. ThurlowPart VIII. Uses for Teacher Development21. Stanley Deno’s Contributions to Teacher Education Scholarship andPractice
£999.99
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. School Figures
Book SynopsisPresents statistics, along with historical trends and cross-sectional comparisons, to provide a clear, factual picture of today's K-12 education landscape, including information on school demographics, cost and finance, testing and achievement, public school reform, and other key areas.
£14.20
Hoover Institution Press,U.S. Paul Robert Hanna A Life of Expanding Communities
Book SynopsisAnalysing and ultimately placing in context Paul Hanna's vast contributions, this book provides a richly textured narrative of his life and his major role in twentieth-century American education and the development of modern American education.
£17.06
Ohio University Press Writing in Disguise
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MJ - Ohio University Press Directing Shakespeare
Book SynopsisAn impossible question from a Chinese actor—“Why is Shakespeare eternal?”—drove Sidney Homan after fifty years in the theater to ponder just what makes Shakespeare…well, Shakespeare.Trade ReviewSidney Homan has the unusual gift for a literary critic of being a good story-teller, and so the moments of rehearsing and trying to find how a complicated text can work on stage come through with vividness and point...Any Shakespearean and any intellectually curious actor or director would find substantial value and interest in Directing Shakespeare. * author of Shakespeare's History Plays *
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Beaufort Books The School Choice Roadmap
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A resource for parents who feel overwhelmed by the prospect of school choice. Campanella is the president of the annual public-awareness effort National School Choice Week, and his debut book offers a clear road map for choosing the best schools for one's children. Its initial chapters lay down fundamental conceptsthat parents are the experts on their own children, that what works for one child may not work for another, and that geographic location is a key factor in choosing a school. He then introduces six education options: traditional public schools, public charter schools, online public schools, public magnet schools, private schools, and home schooling. He provides basic descriptions of each choice, complete with quick summaries of management styles, how teachers are certified, and other factors. He also offers tables regarding each choice's geographic availability, although these lack some specificity. "My Takes" summarize the author's thoughts on each education option, such as "Private Schools can be unique, diverse, and more affordable than you might think." The author walks readers through his seven-step process (starting with "Think Back to Your Own Time in School" and "Identify Your Goals for Your Child"), providing questions for readers to ask themselves as they do their own research. Worksheets help to focus the discussion with a structured, methodical approach. The questions feel repetitious at times, but they effectively highlight important items. The final chapter asks readers to share their experiences with others, which sweetly concludes the main text. Readers may have questions that the seven-step plan doesn't directly address, but Campanella's lengthy "Frequently Asked Questions" section will likely help them. Overall, the author succeeds in his stated desire to remove politics from the school-choice discussion. However, more critical commentary would have been useful, as some descriptions feel overly idealistic. Throughout, Campanella includes supportive, inspiring quotations from parents and school administrators as well as examples of successful schools around the country; several regions are noticeably underrepresented, however. A straightforward and often useful companion for those on a school-choice journey." Kirkus Indies
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Beaufort Books School Choice A Legacy to Keep
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University of Missouri Press The Indomitable Mary Easton Sibley
Book SynopsisAcknowledged as a significant figure in the history of women on the early western frontier, Mary Easton Sibley was involved in most of the important events in nineteenth-century Missouri, and pursued and practiced educational innovations. This biography sheds light on this important pioneer.
£999.99
Africa World Press Too Much Schooling Too Little Education
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£33.20
Pro Lingua Learning Teaching in the Unites States A Guide for
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Wisconsin Historical Society Press Once a Professor
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John Wiley & Sons Workingclass Women in the Academy
Book SynopsisThe voices of 20 women from working-class backgrounds are heard in this collection of essays. Each of the women has lived through the process of academic socialisation - as both student and teacher - and each has thought long and deeply about her experiences from an explicitly feminist perspective.
£999.99
Bauhan Pub Beginning Educator
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£17.00
Gryphon House,U.S. Innovations Comprehensive Toddler Curriculum A
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£35.96
Mercer University Press How Studying Abroad Changed My Life
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£999.99
Carson Dellosa Education Spanish Grades K 5 Elementary Skills for Success
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£15.29
Gallaudet University Press Laurent Clerc The Story of His Early Years
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£999.99
Tyndale House Publishers 52 Games That Teach the Bible
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£999.99
Rethinking Schools Rethinking Multicultural Education
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£999.99
LUP - University of Michigan Press Where Do The Children Play
£999.99
Leslie Gleim Seeing Young Children with New Eyes
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£44.31
University of Exeter The City on the Hill
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£65.04
SAGE Publications Inc Introduction to Teaching
£162.12
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BookBaby Doc Slik Not A Life Of My Own
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BookBaby THE MELTING POT BAND
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