Education

The purpose of this book is to encourage teachers and administrators to move beyond traditional course structures and to ask them to consider designing experiential curriculum that is interdisciplinary and focused on solving real world problems.

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

Based on the author's work in science and engineering educational research, this book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts, and solve problems in science courses.

This edited book contains chapters related to the excellent management and leadership practices currently taking place at historically Black colleges and universities (HBCUs) in the context an economic recession.

On Indian Ground: California is the first in a series of ten books on American Indian/Alaska Native/Native Hawaiian education.

Science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) disciplines play a pivotal role in societal progress and economic prosperity, in addition to enhancing individual lives.

Teachers provide today's youth with the tools to become a positive part of society.

Learning often begins with an experience in the body.

Teaching Social Studies: A Methods Book for Methods Teachers, features tasks designed to take preservice teachers deep into schools in general and into social studies education in particular.

Experts in social studies education and gifted education share teacher-tested strategies for differentiating social studies in K-12 classrooms.

This volume of the International Social Studies Forum offers papers presented at the 2016 Social Studies Education Forum International Conference that was held in Berlin, Germany in June, 2016.

In this book we considered new territory for educational leadership by looking to music for lessons and inspiration that may inform the next generation of schools leaders.

This volume explores the impact of research-practice partnerships in education (broadly conceived) on communities in which such partnerships operate.

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.

Caribbean Discourse in Inclusive Education is an edited book series that aims to give voice to Caribbean scholars, practitioners, and other professionals working in diverse classrooms.

Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1990s Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1990s in contemporary terms.

Through rapid developments in commerce, transportation and communication, people once separated by space, language and politics are now interwoven into a complex global system (Friedman, 2005).

Scholars in various disciplines are recommending comprehensive measures to solve multiple societal as well as individual problems.

(Originally Published in 2000 by Allyn & Bacon)Teaching and Studying the Holocaust is comprised of thirteen chapters by some of the most noted Holocaust educators in the United States.

This edited volume unpacks the profound deterritorializing and reterritorializing shifts taking place across the globalized, networked educational landscape, interjecting into pervasive, predominant education development (EdDev) discourses.

Modern educators are currently ideologically in one of two camps: those who see American education as heading in the right direction, and those who fear that it has gone tragically astray.

As a nation, we spend more than $1 billion a year on federally mandated educational tests that 30 million students must take each year.

Discussion is distorting today.

Half the world's population lives in rural places, but education scholars and policy makers worldwide give little attention to rural of education.

With chapters written by leading researchers and practitioners actively engaged in the work, this Edited Volume examines the role of the state education agency in school turnaround efforts.

This edited collection will stand as the first volume that specifically describes service-learning programs and courses designed as part of teacher education programs in the fields of literacy education, secondary English education, elementary language arts education, and related fields.

This book is designed to aid community college leaders in becoming ethical leaders.

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Within Reach is a text for anyone interested in improving instructional practices with their students, and in expanding those practices from classroom to classroom.

Higher education is facing many challenges, not least of which is retaining excellent faculty and cultivating their continued professional growth.

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.

This book explores the many ways and opportunities in which men and women might work together to highlight creative ways as well as examine the role of men in schools, families, and community engagement.

The first three chapters of Action Research: Models, Methods, and Examples covers the history, foundations, and basics of conducting action research projects.

(sponsored by the Family School Community Partnership Issues SIG)Promising Practices to Empower Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Families of Children with Disabilities offers research-supported school practices to empower families from diverse cultural backgrounds to make informed decisions regarding their children with diverse disabilities.

In many elementary classrooms, social studies has taken a back seat to English Language Arts and Mathematics in the wake of No Child Left Behind and Race to the Top This volume is not another hand-wringing lament.

This volume is an outgrowth of the Conference on Research on the Enacted Mathematics Curriculum, funded by the National Science Foundation and held in Tampa, Florida in November 2010.

Curriculum Windows: What Curriculum Theorists of the 1960s Can Teach Us about Schools and Society Today is an effort by students of curriculum studies, along with their professor, to interpret and understand curriculum texts and theorists of the 1960s in contemporary terms.

This volume covers significant highlights in the history of gifted education, addressing significant contributors to the field, important political and policy concerns, and programs and practices of note.

YIS has been thought as an annual series of volumes collecting contributes aimed at developing the integration of idiographic and nomothetic approaches in psychological and more in general social science.

These materials were developed, in part, by a grant from the federally-funded Mathematics and Science Partnership through the Center for STEM Education.

Over the past thirty years, student assessment has become an increasingly important component of public education.

Mandates to implement practices that are antithetical to what we embrace as supportive of young children's literacy learning are pervasive.

The American Educational History Journal is a peer-reviewed, national research journal devoted to the examination of educational topics using perspectives from a variety of disciplines.

Life Stories: Exploring Issues in Educational History Through Biography consists of 13 essays, each of which offers perspective on one of four key questions that have long drawn scholarly attention: What should schools teach?

In an era of accountability and increased demand of literacy competency, this book provides examples of how teacher educators and teachers have come together to learn from each other and from English learners.

Historians often ignore the day-to-day struggles of ordinary people to improve their lives.

Clinical simulations give teachers opportunities to enact and reflect on professional knowledge, skills, and decisions.

This book includes papers written by teachers and how they engage holistic education in their classrooms.

This book presents a "e;philosophy of science education"e; as a research field as well as its value for curriculum, instruction and teacher pedagogy.

The Carnegie Project on the Education Doctorate (CPED)-an inter-institutional action project of the Carnegie Foundation-is a consortium of universities pursuing the goals of instituting a clear distinction between the professional doctorate in education and the research doctorate; and improving reliably and across contexts the efficacy of programs leading the professional doctorate in education.