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Making the Grade: Everything Your 1st Grader Needs to Know
back cover Making the Grade Books in this important new series give parents easy-to-apply methods for helping to educate their children, whether as parents cooperating with their child's teachers in standard classroom settings, or as home …
Losing Heart: The Moral and Spiritual MIS-Education of America's Children
In this book Svi Shapiro explores the ideological and attitudinal functions of schools, looking especially at what is called the 'hidden curriculum.' He offers both an analysis of the role of education in producing and maintaining attitudes and …
Issues in African Education: Sociological Perspectives
"This well-crafted anthology provides us with rich material to stretch our thinking, concerning Sociology of Education, beyond the customary Eurocentric framework. It is comprehensive in scope, covering a variety of issues relevant to the …
"When the Drama Club Is Not Enough" presents the work of two young activists who have been at the forefront of the successful Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students in Massachusetts.
Making the Grade: Everything Your Kindergartener Needs to Know
Making the Grade Books in this important new series give parents easy-to-apply methods for helping to educate their children, whether as parents cooperating with their child's teachers in standard classroom settings, or as home schoolers taking …
Black Education: A Transformative Research and Action Agenda for the New Century
This volume presents the findings and recommendations of the American Educational Research Association Sponsored Commission on research in Black Education's investigation of the major issues that hinder the education of Black people in the U.S., …
Teaching Community: A Pedagogy of Hope
Combining critical thinking about education with autobiographical narratives, hooks invites readers to extend the discourse of race, gender, class and nationality beyond the classroom into everyday situations of learning.
The most prominent activists working in the fields of conflict resolution and emotional literacy argues that schools must educate the heart as well as the mind. This book is a practical guide, filled with stories, voices, ideas and advice. We see …
What You Don't Know about Schools
This book brings together leading scholars of education to analyze different ways of looking at school. Steinberg, Kincheloe, and a group of contributors argue that the goals of education are reduced by a superficial public conversation. …
Making the Grade: Everything Your 4th Grader Needs to Know
back cover Making the Grade Books in this important new series give parents easy-to-apply methods for helping to educate their children, whether as parents cooperating with their child's teachers in standard classroom settings, or as home …
As American schools undergo a dramatic shift to the right, the author of this book uncovers roots of this Conservative swing and aims to point the way to a more balanced approach.
What You Don't Know about Schools
This book brings together leading scholars of education to analyze different ways of looking at school. Steinberg, Kincheloe, and a group of contributors argue that the goals of education are reduced by a superficial public conversation. …
The Discourse of Character Education: Culture Wars in the Classroom
In this book Peter Smagorinsky and Joel Taxel analyze the ways in which the perennial issue of character education has been articulated in the United States, both historically and in the current character education movement that began in earnest …
Teaching Social Foundations of Education: Contexts, Theories, and Issues
Examines the multiple layers&issues involved in constructing meaningful learning environments w/in the social foundations of education classrooms.Provides readers w/ the language, tools, &insights necessary to foster a more productive engagement …
This highly anticipated second edition of The Curriculum Studies Reader retains key features of the successful first edition while incorporating an updated introduction and new, timely essays. Grounded in historical essays, the volume provides …
Making the Grade: Everything Your 2nd Grader Needs to Know
back cover Making the Grade Books in this important new series give parents easy-to-apply methods for helping to educate their children, whether as parents cooperating with their child' s teachers in standard classroom settings, or as home …
Getting Choice Right: Ensuring Equity and Efficiency in Education Policy
This second volume from the National Working Commission on Choice in K-12 Education examines the connections between school choice and the goals of equity and efficiency in education. The contributorsdistinguished university professors, high …