Education

Elementary mathematics specialists are teacher leaders who are responsible for supporting effective PK-6 mathematics instruction and student learning.

This book provides context about the experiences of Black graduate and professional students attending HBCUs.

Creative problem solving, collaboration, and technology fluency are core skills requisite of any nation's workforce that strives to be competitive in the 21st Century.

Research on stress and coping phenomena has been among the most widely studied topics in social and behavioral sciences during the past several decades.

Education Redux is a timely and incisive work answering the myriad of questions about the future of America.

From the 1960s to the 1980s, a range of academic possibilities for women developed, as their career histories and intellectual biographies reveal.

This book offers a first-hand look at the importance of human resource management (HRM) processes to not just one public agency but a large group of public administration entities that rely on a public HRM agency (the Personnel Board of Jefferson County) for its HRM processes.

What and how to teach in the K-16 classroom history has been a perennial and, at times, heated debate.

This is the first chronicle of the history of social justice as a line of inquiry within the field of educational administration.

Teaching is not merely a technical process- it is one that requires creative and inspirational thinking, not only on the part of students but for teachers themselves as artful, reflective beings.

Committed to teaching for peace and justice, the author brings to life a teaching approach that empowers youth: to think critically and creatively about historical, current, and future issues, to care about classmates and neighbors as well as the global community, to act locally and globally for the greater good.

Though the Filipino American population has increased numerically in many areas of the United States, especially since the influx of professional immigrants in the wake of the 1965 Immigration Act, their impact on schools and related educational institutions has rarely been documented and examined.

Revised thoroughly and updated, this second edition of Paradoxes of the Public School comprehensively explores public education in the United States.

This publication features Hiatt-Michael's research and practice during thirty-four years as Professor of Education at the Graduate School of Education and Psychology, Pepperdine University.

Unfinished Business: A Regional Education Laboratory Retrospective on School Improvement is authored by education professionals formerly employed at SERVE, one of the ten US federally funded education research and development laboratories.

Effective schools engage a wide range of families and community members to support their award-winning programs.

This book explores how we approached the issue of community development in the context of competing interests and a differential power imbalance.

Women of Color in STEM: Navigating the Workforce is an opportunity for making public the life stories of women of color who have persevered in STEM workplace settings.

Filling in the Blanks is a book dedicated to helping policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers, better understand standardized testing and the Black-White achievement gap.

Living Faithfully is for anyone interested in education and education policy, whether parent, community member, teacher, student of leadership or policy maker.

The 21st Century Parent emphatically remind us that the missing ingredient in closing the gaps in achievement is heaping measure of parent engagement and community.

Ignoring Poverty in the U.

The Early Years of Leadership: The Journey Begins is distinctive for many reasons, chief among which is a strong commitment to honoring practitioners' stories and empirical research.

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

On Indian Ground: The Southwest is one of ten regionally focused texts that explores American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education in depth.

The current volume, entitled Motivation and Engagement in Various Learning Environments, includes research studies from different domains related to students' motivation, engagement and learning, parents' experiences, and teachers' involvement with novel interdisciplinary programs.

This volume brings together design thinking, critical social theory, and learning sciences to describe promising learning innovations that foster rights, dignity, and social justice for youth.

Developing and Sustaining Adult Learners is the second volume in a series of scholarly publications associated with the annual Adult Higher Education Alliance (AHEA, The Alliance) conference.

The purpose of this book is to explore the talents, work styles, attitudes, and issues that members of the Millennial generation are bringing with them as they enter the workforce.

What is effective teaching and what pedagogical models are being used in teacher education and evaluation?

Given the increasing diversity of the United States and students entering schools, the value of teacher learning in clinical contexts, and the need to elevate the profession, national organizations have been calling for a re-envisioning of teacher preparation that turns teacher education upside down.

This Trainee Manual is designed to be used in conjunction with an instructor-directed program based on material in Behavior Modeling Training for Developing Supervisory Skills: Instructor Manual, by the same author.

Foundations of Leadership explores the foundations of leadership by confronting common assumptions and provides language for engaging in the leadership process as a leader and a follower.

The Research in Careers series is designed in five volumes to provide scholars a unique forum to examine careers issues in today's changing, global workplace.

First published in 1992, Purposeful Restructuring (now with a new preface by the author) explores the continuous pursuit of improvement in American public education.

Negotiating Citizenship Education (CE) explores the dynamics, tensions, and space in Chinese socialist CE, focusing on how the political, economic, social, and educational structures in China, as well as individual agency, shape CE curriculum, teaching, and learning.

The Impact of the Laboratory and Technology on K-12 Science Learning and Teaching examines the development, use, and influence of active laboratory experiences and the integration of technology in science teaching.

Research on middle level education indicates that student learning at the middle level has a deep and abiding influence on post-secondary opportunities and career paths.

Conflict and Resolution: Progressive Educators and the Question of Religion investigates the impact of religion in shaping the progressive education movement.

This book is intended for prospective secondary teachers, university education and human development faculty and students, and in-service secondary school teachers.

This volume represents a serious attempt to understand what it is that structures the pedagogical experience.

Radford University was founded as a Normal School for teachers in 1910 and has remained a leader in teacher education ever since.

In this book, Baez examines a series of governmental "e;technologies"e; that he believes strongly characterize our present.

This book brings together the voices of leading English Education researchers who work to offer views into the changing landscape of English as a result of the use of digital media in classrooms, out of school settings, universities and other contexts in which readers and writers work.

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This volume contains the proceedings of the First International Curriculum Conference sponsored by the Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum (CSMC).

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A group of multiethnic scholars and practitioner researchers explore concepts of teaching for social justice and preparing teachers to work towards social justice in schools and communities.

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 research into how students' attitudes affect learning of science related subjects have been one of the core areas of interest by science educators.