Provides a detailed, on-the-ground examination of the difficult paths - curricular, interpersonal, and institutional -... Læs mere
Written by three leading scholars, this book provides nuanced solutions on how to diversify the teaching force, increase student exposures to same-race teachers, and improve teacher training for a culturally diverse student body.
Illustrates how community colleges can utilize design thinking to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, and experiment with the internal changes necessary to optimize outcomes for stakeholders.
Highlights the structural conditions that have undermined the success of the standards movement and... Læs mere
Focusing on high performing or rapidly improving districts that serve children of colour and children from low-income backgrounds, this book explores the common elements that have led to the districts' successes, including leadership, processes, and systems.
Examines the Common Core State Standards from the initiative's promising beginnings to its disappointing outcomes.... Læs mere
Offers an insightful look at the growing movement of civic-minded educators who are using twenty-first-century participatory... Læs mere
Provides an introduction to intellectual virtues - the personal qualities and character strengths of good thinkers and learners - and outlines a pragmatic approach for teachers to reinforce them in the classroom.
In the thoroughly revised second edition of Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay... Læs mere
Dispels common misconceptions about the cognitive abilities of preschoolers and demonstrates how effective early instruction... Læs mere
In this ambitious yet pragmatic work, Joshua Starr makes the case that intentional and attentive district leadership can bring... Læs mere
Provides a trenchant account of how tremendous the loss to the US educational system was and continues to be. Despite... Læs mere