Service-Learning and Social Justice provides everything administrators and teachers need to build service-learning programs that prepare students as engaged citizens committed to equity and justice.
This book is written for parents and teachers to help them guide students (Kindergarten through college), preparing them for the next steps of their education and getting into the workforce.
Today's educatorspre- and in-service teachers and teacher educators serve increasing percentages of adolescents who have limited relationships to school.
Very high rates of family fragmentation in the United States are subtracting from what very large numbers of students are learning in school and forever holding them back in many other ways.
Group Development and Group Leadership in Student Affairs provides readers with an overview of basic group dynamics and techniques that are effective in higher education and student affairs settings.
Educators of every kind such as school superintendents, principals, teachers, higher education practitioners, community organizers and even students will gain essential skills, resources and examples to encourage and support individual as well as collective empowerment from early childhood education through college in both traditional classrooms and in the broader community.
An honest, intimate look at the lives of today's teenstold through the true experiences of friends at a New England prep schoolEstablished in 1798, Milton Academy has a proud history of achievement.
Young people today know trouble from a host of sources: poverty, sexism and racism; the storms of a climate in turmoil; the loss of loved-ones to incarceration, addiction and suicide.
The gaze of educational researchers has traditionally been turned 'down' toward the experiences of communities deemed at-risk, presumably with the purpose of improving their plight.
In the face of complex local and global problems, there is a critical need to prepare PK-12 students to be innovative, resilient problem-solvers and well-equipped STEM-literate citizens.
Kids in the Middle: The Micro-Politics of Special Education takes the reader on a fascinating journey through special education in the past, present, and future.
As editors of Breaking the Mold of School Instruction and Organization: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2010) and Breaking the Mold of Preservice and Inservice Teacher Education: Innovative and Successful Practices for the 21st Century (2011), we have explored innovative practices, many of which represent issues of diversity from multiple perspectives and schools of thought.
Student Success: From Board Rooms to Classrooms analyzes the emerging body of scholarly research on student success in an accessible and readable way that community college leaders will find both interesting and relevant.
If we want our students to be prepared for a life involved with artificial intelligence, global awareness, cultural understanding, racial, religious and lifestyle diversity, and changing economic and political realities, then we have to change what we are doing in our schools from pre-school to graduate school.
This book draws from interviews conducted with prominent social justice educators and activist intellectuals, such as Noam Chomsky, Gayatri Spivak, Stuart Hall, Henry Giroux, Antonia Darder, Molefi Asante, and Maxine Greene, to examine various forms of social inequities occurring in schools and society perpetrated by those in power.
Des mois entiers consacrés aux livres, des heures et des heures passées à lire et à répéter, pour se retrouver devant le professeur et ne rien retenir.
Luni întregi petrecute pe cărți, ore și ore întregi petrecute citind și repetând, pentru ca apoi să te trezești în fața profesorului și să nu-ți amintești nimic.
Meses inteiros gastos em livros, horas e horas gastas lendo e repetindo, apenas para se encontrar na frente do professor e não se lembrar mais de nada.
Duty First is a penetrating account of a year inside one of America's premier schools for leadership -- the United States Military Academy -- as it celebrates the bicentennial of its founding.
The sixth edition of this classic parents guide and college orientation staple has been thoroughly revised and updated to reflect the realities of college today.
