Education

This book is the third volume in the series on Research in Educational Diversity and Excellence.

Exploring the School Choice Universe: Evidence and Recommendations gives readers a comprehensive, complete picture of choice policies and issues.

Storybridge to Second Language Literacy makes a case for using authentic children's literature-alternately also referred to as 'stories' or 'real books'-as the medium of instruction in teaching English to young learners, particularly in contexts where children must access general curriculum subjects in English.

Although the social reality is stark for progressive scholars who engage in scholarly activities or are committed to guiding their students to develop a social-just praxis in the circles of higher education, some scholars have found fissures amid the alienating, often hostile academic world to learn, grow, and create transformative communities.

This year (2012) marks ten years of No Child Left Behind and the U.

Ethnographic inquiry serves as a unique educational resource that is accessible to students and teachers of all economic and social classes and therefore well suited to building democratic communities in the 21st Century.

This book is a critically important contribution to the work underway to transform schooling for students who have historically been denied access to a quality education, specifically African American children.

The purpose of the book is to establish a common language for, and understanding of, embodiment as it applies to mathematical thinking, and to link mathematics education research to recent work in gesture studies, cognitive linguistics and the theory of embodied cognition.

The current thrust in the field of education is to improve teachers' understanding of how research on best practices can improve student learning.

This edited collection, the first of its kind, marries the two fastest-growing movements in higher education: service-learning and eLearning.

This volume investigates the evolution of the geometry curriculum in the United States over the past 150 years.

The Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education brings together in one source research techniques that researchers can use to collect data for studies that contribute to the knowledge in early childhood education.

Music teachers around the world have positively influenced the lives of children.

In this first book of the series Survey Methods in Educational Research, we have brought together leading authors and scholars in the field to discuss key introductory concepts in the creation, implementation, evaluation and dissemination of survey instruments and their resultant findings.

In this issue of Research Human Resource Management we consider some of the challenges facing organizations today including changes in the population, the increased competition for talent, and the rise in the use of technology.

National identity has been the subject of much controversy and debate.

In Beyond Retention: Cultivating Spaces of Equity, Fairness, and Justice for Women of Color in U.

This textbook is a comprehensive and practical guide to teaching middle level social studies.

This edited collection of chapters from invited scholars, explores issues of social justice and micropolitics in educational institutions.

Beyond the Schoolhouse introduces eight paradigm shifts that are urgently needed to challenge inequities in education and improve the conditions for historically marginalized school children.

The FOX television show The Simpsons has been around for over 30 years, with more than 700 episodes.

Researcher Race: Social Constructions in the Research Process is designed to expose the role of researcher race in social science research.

This edited volume seeks to answer the question, "e;What does it mean to be a critical multimodal scholar in educational spaces?

This series provides a scholarly forum for interdisciplinary research on the financing of public, private, and higher education in the United States and abroad.

Creativity is a hot topic in education.

Over the years, educational scholars have proposed different conceptions of the curriculum.

Dualer Unterricht verschrankt fachliche und entwicklungsbezogene Inhalte miteinander und ist damit unabdingbarer Teil (sonder- und inklusions-)padagogisch-didaktischer Arbeit.

This book focuses on global education, and policy reforms for refugee and displaced children, which has ascended in importance due to increased conflict migration worldwide.

The purpose of Transforming Schooling for Second Language Learners: Theoretical Insights, Policies, Pedagogies, and Practices is to bring together educational researchers and practitioners who have implemented, documented, or examined policies, pedagogies, and practices in and out of classrooms and in real and virtual contexts that are in some way transforming what we know about the extent to which emergent bilinguals (EBs) learn and achieve in educational settings.

It is evident that organizations are becoming increasingly diverse because of the growing numbers of ethnic minorities in the U.

The field of elementary social studies is a specific space that has historically been granted unequal value in the larger arena of social studies education and research.

Lacking a digital crystal ball, we cannot predict the future of education or the precise instructional role games will have going forward.

Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), which is also known as SARS-CoV-2, has had a great impact in early childhood education programs.

The Montgomery bus boycott, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), and Brown v.

New technologies provide us with new opportunities to create new learning experiences, leveraging research from a variety of disciplines along with imagination and creativity.

The participation of Black students in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields, is an issue of national concern.

It is common for teachers and students of education to feel disheartened about the profession and their own aims and purposes once they become conscious of the dehumanizing tendencies of the schooling institution.

Addressing social justice issues in a physical education context is necessary both at the higher education and PK-12 settings.

The goal of this text is to help teachers in diverse classrooms understand the importance of students' culture, languages, and schooling experiences to curriculum, assessment, and student achievement.

This book is intended to contribute model bases on a faith-inspired, biblically based perspective that is consistent with the needs of strategicorganizational leadership.

Teacher educators have opportunities to include issues of multicultural education, equity, and social justice in the work done with preservice teachers.

The rash of bullying incidents within schools, universities, and workplaces has prompted a public outcry and a call to action.

Leading in Change: Implications for School Leadership Preparation in England and the United States considers the ways in which school leadership, and its preparation has changed and developed in response to a rapidly changing educational scenario over the past decade.

Investing in People is the world priority of the 21st century.

This book provides a practical focus and framework for establishing insightful leadership that will enhance the learning of students with exceptionalities in the 21st century by discussing critical leadership dimensions and topics by leading academics.

This book captures the experiences of children in U.

There can be no doubt that mobile technologies are here to stay.

This book seeks to understand the complexities of talented and high-performing Black girls and women in STEM across the P-20 trajectory.

Conversational in tone and providing highly practical advice for new deans, Reflections of a Rookie Dean: Lessons from the First Year chronicles the experiences of a novice college leader.

Today, like no other time in our history, the threat of misinformation and disinformation is at an all-time high.