Educational strategies and policy

This is the second book in the series examining student achievement.

This book addresses a timely and very important topic: language in education.

Improving Writing and Thinking through Assessment is designed to help individual faculty and administrators select assessment approaches and measures to maximize their students' writing and thinking.

This Handbook provides windows into worldwide research endeavors, including countries not usually widely known in international education studies.

In an increasingly global learning environment, teachers are challenged to meet a myriad of student needs-provide basic literacy and mathematics skills, improve scientific and technological thinking, increase bilingual and multi-lingual competencies.

This volume dedicated to the engagement of African American males in community colleges furthers the research agenda focused on improving the educational outcomes of African American males.

This book comprises an examination of novice teachers' experiences in schools and cultures of schooling across the contexts of Hong Kong, Japan, and Canada.

Through courses, internships, community engagement, social organizations, and daily interactions with others, every day we accumulate experiences; however, learning does not happen through experience but from reflection on experiences.

Universal Primary Education programs are being promoted around the globe as the solution to poverty and health problems, but very little in-depth qualitative knowledge is available about the experiences of these programs in children's life-worlds.

In Dreams Deferred, a follow-up to Of Borders and Dreams (1996), Chris Carger takes us further into the life of Alejandro Juarez, Jr.

This book is for new faculty, graduate students, teachers, administrators, and other academics who want to write more clearly and have their work published.

This book is a step-by-step guide for correctly applying Fishbein and Ajzen's theories which together form "e; .

Look, Listen, Learn, LEAD: A District-Wide Systems Approach to Teaching and Learning in PreK-12 lays out the transformational journey of Hampton City Schools (HCS), an urban school division of 30 schools in southeastern Virginia.

Over the past twenty years, educational policy has been characterized by top-down, market-focused policies combined with a push toward privatization and school choice.

This book provides a detailed account of an educational experiment in a middle school in Shanghai, China.

Racism by Another Name: Black Students, Overrepresentation, and the Carceral State of Special Education is a thought-provoking and timely book that provides a landscape for understanding and challenging educational (in)opportunities for Black students who are identified for special education.

Effective leadership is the necessary ingredient in achieving educational improvement in schools; everything rises and falls on leadership.

Learning, as it is being increasingly recognized, is centrally predicated upon students' well-being.

It is more important than ever to share best practices with emerging leaders in the social services and education fields, as leaders and students need to understand the practical application of policies and theories.

In an era of constant connection, it can be challenging to prioritize time for reflection.

The pages of this book paint a portrait of thirteen scholars and their lifelong professional accomplishments in and contributions to teaching, service, and research in global international education around the world.

The primary purpose of this book is to invite educators to (re)think what it means to critically conceptualize knowledge about the world.

Beyond the Online Course: Leadership Perspectives on e-Learning addresses a need for the growing body of professionals who are called upon to lead the online/distance learning efforts at their various organizations.

Given the current social climate this book interrogates capitalism's relationships to and influence on education.

Restorative Practice Meets Social Justice: Un-silencing the Voices of "e;At-Promise"e; Student Populations is a collection of pragmatic urban school experiences that focus on restorative approaches situated in the context of social justice.

Analyzing experiences of White mothers of daughters and sons of color across the U.

Punk music and community have been a piece of United States culture since the early 1970s.

Leadership and School Quality is the twelfth in a series on research and theory dedicated to advancing our understanding of schools through empirical study and theoretical analysis.

Sometimes you need to hear the story from the beginning.

The purpose of this book is to highlight the efforts of the members of the Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED) to prepare Scholarly Practitioners in the field of education leadership.

There is little doubt that the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) are a controversial entity.

This volume is intended for researchers, curriculum developers, policy makers, and classroom teachers who want comprehensive information on what students at grades 4, 8, and 12 (the grades assessed by NAEP) can and cannot do in mathematics.

The 2nd Edition of Reconceptualizing Literacy in the New Age of Multiculturalism and Pluralism honors the genius of Dr.

This Handbook is a comprehensive reference book for libraries, scholars, and comparative and international studies researchers.

Motivation to engage in reading is a consistent problem for students in general and boys in particular.

People are on the move all across the globe and the student population is becoming increasingly more diverse.

The book Beyond Marginality: Understanding the Intersection of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Difference in Educational Leadership Research promotes new theoretical and conceptual frameworks for the study of race and ethnicity in educational leadership.

Between 1980 and 2005, 45 states were involved in lawsuits around equity of funding and adequacy of education provided to all students in the state.

How can we build an organization or institution that treats people equitably?

In our current systems of education, there is a trend toward compartmentalizing knowledge, standardizing assessments of learning, and focusing primarily on quantifiable and positivist forms of inquiry.

Current Issues in Out-of-School Time, is designed with a purpose to disseminate original research and promising practices that further the OST field.

The development of science literacy has the potential to have an enormous impact on real world outcomes.

Across the country, women are pursuing doctoral degrees at a rate higher than males.

Drawing from over 20 years of teaching experience in the U.

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It has become increasingly critical for both novice and experienced educators to bring to their diverse classrooms a set of dispositions, skills, and experiences that will enhance learning for all students, especially pupils from diverse cultural and language backgrounds.

Reflecting the World: A Guide to Incorporating Equity in Mathematics Teacher Education is a guide for mathematics teacher educators interested in incorporating equity concerns into their teaching.

Maribel's First Day is a narrative description of the first day of school experience for a teenage Mexican American high school student.

This monograph lays out a qualitative, collective case study designed to assess how students in a secondary Latina/Latino Literature class began to think dialectically about issues of social justice.

Restorative Practice Meets Social Justice: Un-silencing the Voices of "e;At-Promise"e; Student Populations is a collection of pragmatic urban school experiences that focus on restorative approaches situated in the context of social justice.