Schools and pre-schools

What is a charter school?

Children begin their literacy journeys from the moment of their birth as they begin to read the world around them.

Over the past thirty years, Holt High School in central Michigan has engaged in a quiet revolution that has transformed mathematics teaching and learning in the district.

Christian schools and colleges that include spiritual formation and Christian maturity within their mission are facing challenges.

This book is grounded in the author's experiences of teaching mathematics for prospective elementary school teachers and conducting research on their understanding of mathematical concepts.

The past two decades have seen an increased interest in education, especially in core areas such as mathematics, language and science.

The word fundamentalism usually conjures up images of religions and their most zealous followers.

Seldom is the practicing P-12 educator, the P-12 practitioner, considered a scholar.

This book is a study of the contributions of Catholic K-12 schools in the United States to the public interest from the 1800's to the present.

For thousands of years, religion has been a key element of human societies.

This volume explores early childhood education policies and practices in the Caribbean.

This handbook explores the curriculum, instruction and assessment used in middle schools.

This text looks at how the study of play has gained attention and concerns about play in young children have emerged.

This book tells stories of life in a "e;failing"e; school.

The collection of papers in this volume have a combined synergy that exudes a sense of hope and confidence that our progress in the Professional Development Schools research movement has been substantial and vibrant, even though some would argue that the strides are not enough nor fast enough to make a significant difference.

This is a book about four rural secondary schools of the Republic of Kyrgyzstan, a newly independent Central Asian state of the former USSR.

Critical Small Schools: Beyond Privatization in New York City Urban Educational Reform features the most current empirical research about the successes and challenges of the small schools movement and the implications of such for urban public educational policy.

Imagine a place where passion for learning, authentic connection with colleagues and community, and strengths-based middle grades education thrive.

Science is unique among the disciplines since it is inherently hands-on.

In classrooms where children's voices are valued, young readers and writers possess power.

Visual Data in Science Education builds upon previous work done by the editors to bring some definition to the meaning of visual data as it relates to education, and highlighted the breadth of types and uses of visual data across the major academic disciplines.

At the time of Obama's draconian anti-immigrant policies leading to massive deportation of undocumented, poor immigrants of color, there could not be a more timely and important book than this edited volume, which critically examines ways in which immigration, race, class, language, and gender issues intersect and impact the life of many immigrants, including immigrant students.

For religious and non-religious alike, the Bible constitutes an important source of cultural heritage, fundamental values, and basic codes of social conduct.

Paul Diederich worked in five new organizations dedicated to transforming American schools: the Ohio State University lab school, the Eight Year Study, a Harvard institute to revamp English language instruction, the University of Chicago's Board of Examiners, and the Educational Testing Service.

This is a ground-breaking research study on Black immigrant identities in South African schools.

This handbook explores the curriculum, instruction and assessment used in middle schools.

This volume of The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education is a significant contribution to the literature on middle level schools because it is written specifically with policymakers in mind.

Through the chapters in this volume we learn about the questions that capture the attention of teachers, the methodologies they use to gather data, and the ways in which they make sense of what they find.

This handbook covers such research issues in middle level education as advisory programmes, teaming, effective teachers, staffing, and teacher preparation programmes.

At Our Best: Building Youth-Adult Partnerships in Out-of-School Time Settings brings together the voices of over 50 adults and youth to explore both the promises and challenges of intergenerational work in out-of-school time (OST) programs.

This volume is directed toward research to practice issues related to partnering with families of children birth through age 5.

Early childhood education has always been an enterprising one.

Volume V of The Handbook of Research in Middle Level Education highlights action research in middle grades education.

This is the second in a series of monographs by the Family, School, Community Partnership (FSCP) Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association.

The world of middle level education is rapidly evolving.

Social epistemology is a broad set of approaches to the study of knowledge and to gain information about the social dimensions.

This work looks at managing school system change.

For thousands of years, religion has been a key element of human societies.

In the chapters that follow, the history and current status of early childhood education in selected countries, along with a review of current research that is being conducted in these countries will be presented.

This book is divided into four parts: overview and scope of the problem; current challenges to funding of school infrastructure; the future of school infrastructure funding; and conclusion.

The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education provides a comprehensive overview of the field.

(Sponsored by the Middle Level Education Research SIG and the National Middle School Association)The Young Adolescent and the Middle School focuses on issues related to the nature of young adolescence and the intersection of young adolescence with middle level schooling.

In this volume, gender and schooling in the early years addresses a broad range of issues including, but not limited, to gender equity in education.

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

This is the second (revised) edition of the book published in 2010 under the same title.

While the research on bullying and peer victimization has increased considerably over the past 20 years, a number of studies are emerging that document mixed results of bullying and prevention programs.

There is a great deal of misunderstanding about how schools in America function and what goes on in the typical classroom.

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.

The book compares the standardized test scores of both elementary and high schools charter schools with the scores for regular public schools located nearby.

The second edition of The Encyclopedia of Middle Grades Education has been revised, updated, and expanded since its original publication in 2005.