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This lively and provocative book introduces this burgeoning field for readers concerned with K-12 education in the United States--and with efforts to reform and improve it.Entrepreneurship has emerged in recent years as an unprecedented and influe...

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2007 Notable Education Book, American School Board Journal This straightforward and inspiring book takes readers into schools where educators believeand provethat all children, even those considered ';hard-to-teach,' can learn to high standards. T...

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A comprehensive study that is also practical and realistic, New Directions in Special Education outlines principles for decisionmaking about special education at every levelfrom the family to the classroom, school, and districtand for state and fe...

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Moderating the Debate is a major statement on education research, policy, and reform that will be required reading for everyone with a stake in improving Americas schools.This eloquent book examines the complexand often problematicrelations betwee...

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This timely and comprehensive volume will spur and strengthen public debate over the role of teachers unions in education reform for years to come. Collective bargaining shapes the way public schools are organized, financed, staffed, and operated....

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Leading for Equity tells the compelling story of the Montgomery County (Maryland) Public Schools and its transformationin less than a decadeinto a system committed to breaking the links between race and class and academic achievement.In chapters o...

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Based on a four-year study, Manga High explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City's largest high schools.Since 2004, students at Martin Luther King, Jr., High School in Manha...

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How It's Being Done offers much-needed help to educators, providing detailed accounts of the ways in which unexpected schoolsthose with high-poverty and high-minority student populationshave dramatically boosted student achievement.How It's Being ...

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Real Leaders, Real Schools tells the stories of five urban public school principals who led their schools through profound and transformative changes. In each of these cases, their efforts resulted in dramatic improvements in student achievementim...

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From the Courtroom to the Classroom examines recent developments pertaining to school desegregation in the United States.As the editors note, it comes at a time marked by a ';general downplaying of race and ethnicity as criteria for the allocation...

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Organized around the four key areas outlined in the U. S. Department of Education's Race to the Top program, Strategic Priorities for School Improvement presents a collection of seminal articles on standards and assessment; using data to improve l...

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As any teacher or parent knows, adolescence is a time when youth grapple with the question, ';Who am I?' Issues of race, ethnicity, class, gender, sexual orientation, and ability can complicate this question for young people, affecting their schoo...

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The authors survey the current afterschool landscape and bring to light important issues and practices within the field, explore the challenges and opportunities facing afterschool education programs, and point to future directions for these burge...

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Over the past 20 years, alternative certification for teachers has emerged as a major avenue of teacher preparation. The proliferation of new pathways has spurred heated debate over how best to recruit, prepare, and support qualified teachers.Alte...

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How can we systemically improve the quality of classroom instruction and the learning and achievement of students? In an era when isolated examples of excellence are not good enough, we need systems that support improvement and excellence for all....

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2009 Notable Education Book, American School Board JournalThe Essential School Board Book highlights effective practices that are common to high-functioning boards around the countryboards that are working successfully with their superintendents a...

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Adolescent development research and theory have tremendous potential to inform the work of high school teachers, counselors, and administrators. Understanding Youth bridges the gap between adolescent development theory and practice. Nakkula and To...

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2010 Notable Education Book, American School Board Journal';Why is it,' writes noted assessment expert W. James Popham, ';that today's educators seem almost compelled to replicate their predecessors' blunders?' Looking back over a career of more t...

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When Research Matters considers the complex and crucially important relationship between education research and policy.In examining how and under what conditions research affects education policy, the book focuses on a number of critical issues: t...

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Bringing together a mix of researchers and practitioners, With the Best of Intentions examines the major goals of recent philanthropic efforts and looks at some of the key lessons--for educators, philanthropists, policymakers, and community leader...

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An indispensable book for administrators, policymakers, scholars, and practitioners, Urban School Reform presents a revealing portrait of reform efforts while identifying the full range of issues that education reformers will need to address in di...

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Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has...

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The Future of Educational Entrepreneurship examines the challenge of creating innovative and productive entrepreneurial activity in American education. In the course of exploring these challenges, the book considers a number of crucial issues and ...

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This ambitious book grows out of the realization that a convergence of economic, demographic, and political forces in the early twenty-first century requires a fundamental reexamination of the financing of American higher education.The authors ide...

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This ambitious book grows out of the realization that a convergence of economic, demographic, and political forces in the early twenty-first century requires a fundamental reexamination of the financing of American higher education.The authors ide...

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2013 Outstanding Book Award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)Preparing Every Teacher to Reach English Learners presents a practical, flexible model for infusing English learner (EL) instruction into teacher education ...

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2013 Outstanding Book Award, American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE)Preparing Every Teacher to Reach English Learners presents a practical, flexible model for infusing English learner (EL) instruction into teacher education ...

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How can districts bring instructional improvement to scale within and across schools?The authors of Collaborative School Improvement argue that districts can play a powerful part in helping schools build the capacity to engage in inquiry-based ref...

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How can districts bring instructional improvement to scale within and across schools?The authors of Collaborative School Improvement argue that districts can play a powerful part in helping schools build the capacity to engage in inquiry-based ref...

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How can an understanding of adolescent development inform strategies and practices for supporting first-generation college goers? In Ready, Willing, and Able, Mandy Savitz-Romer and Suzanne Bouffard focus on the developmental tasks and competencie...

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