The Action Research Guidebook: A Four-Stage Process for Educators and School Teams Best-selling author Richard Sagor’s updated edition provides steps for effectively implementing research and data. The book is organized around Sagor’s four-stage process and includes hands-on tools. List Price: $ 38.95 Price: Read more »
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education In her critically acclaimed national best seller, Diane Ravitch examines her career in education reform and repudiates positions that she once fiercely defended. Evaluating wildly popular ideas for restructuring schools, including charter schools and testing, she explains why [...] Read more »
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools How can teachers and administrators be prepared to create partnerships with families and communities? Nationwide, rhetoric in favor of parent involvement is high, but the quality of most programs still is low. Part of the problem is that most teacher education, administrative training, and other [...] Read more »
Promising Practices for Family Involvement in Schooling Across the Continents (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues)
Promising Practices for Family Involvement in Schooling Across the Continents (Family, School, Community, Partnership Issues) This monograph represents a seminal examination of the relationship of families to the education of their children across the globe. The monograph commences with an overview of issues and models in parent involvement, continues with a series of chapters from [...] Read more »
More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee
More Than One Struggle: The Evolution of Black School Reform in Milwaukee Traditional narratives of black educational history suggest that African Americans offered a unified voice concerning Brown v. Board of Education. Jack Dougherty counters this interpretation, demonstrating that black activists engaged in multiple, overlapping, and often conflicting strategies to advance the race by gaining [...] Read more »
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools Reviews
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Preparing Educators and Improving Schools How can teachers and administrators be prepared to create partnerships with families and communities? Nationwide, rhetoric in favor of parent involvement is high, but the quality of most programs still is low. Part of the problem is that most teacher education, administrative training, and other [...] Read more »
The Elusive What and the Problematic How: The Essential Leadership Questions for School Leaders and Educational Researchers Reviews
The Elusive What and the Problematic How: The Essential Leadership Questions for School Leaders and Educational Researchers For the authors in this book, there can be no valid excuses for ignorance in any aspect of education as theory/practice. That is: – If we come to learn that all educational problems involve knowledge of complex systems [...] Read more »
Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment (S U N Y Series, Reform in Mathematics Education)
Reform in School Mathematics and Authentic Assessment (S U N Y Series, Reform in Mathematics Education) Today new ways of thinking about learning call for new ways for monitoring learning. Reform in School Mathematics builds from the vision that assessment can become the bridge for instructional activity, accountability, and teacher development. It places teachers in [...] Read more »
The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation (Jossey-Bass Education Series)
The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation (Jossey-Bass Education Series) In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. [...] Read more »
Diane Ravitch On School Reform, Part 1
From NYU’s Radical Film and Lecture Series held on 3/26/10 full video can be found at www.rfls.blip.tv description: What type of School Reform do we really want? A public discussion featuring: Diane Ravitch — Author of over twenty books, former Assistant Secretary of Education under President George HW Bush, and currently research professor of education [...] Read more »