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Please Teach Me Phonics, Mrs. B. aims to help new-age elementary school students learn how to read via old school methods.

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Let Them Write: Plot Building focuses on conflict, suspense and narrative structure. Students practice first-drafting, editing, polishing and sharing original scenes and stories built around these three important elements of storytelling.

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This handbook for teachers and practitioners in communications and multicultural studies shows how to pluralise the curriculum to encourage diversity; how to recruit and retain journalism students of colour; and how to make newsrooms and classrooms more multicultural in attitude and action.

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Responding to the conservative agenda of high-stakes testing, charter schools, and vouchers, this work offers an alternative vision of education reform. It gives a portrayal of day-to-day teaching and learning in six educational projects that span both classroom and community-based settings.

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Responding to the conservative agenda of high-stakes testing, charter schools, and vouchers, Pockets of Hope offers an alternative vision of education reform. It provides an intimate portrayal of day-to-day teaching and learning in six educational projects that span both classroom and community-base

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Web 2.0, the read/write web creates new opportunities for students to share their learning with a larger, real world community via the Internet.

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This volume discusses teacher training, pay and incentives, equity and diversity among the student population, and the use of indicators to assess educational progress and to inform decision making. Chapters in each section emphasize policies that schools should adopt to address the respective issues.

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This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and provisionally chart the methodological and theoretical parameters of such a project. The opening section on "theory" surveys the conceptual antecedents of qualitative policy studies,

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This volume brings together scholars working the relatively new terrain of ethnographic policy studies to debate and provisionally chart the methodological and theoretical parameters of such a project. The final section on experiences will extend the reflections in the methods section with concrete case studies.

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Drawing extensively from critical education theory, feminist perspective and the writings of community college insiders as well as from her three years of classroom research. Professor Herideen develops the concept of Critical Mainstreaming. This model is designed to maximize both critical thinking and career success for nontraditional students.

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Political Economy of Public Education Finance clarifies organizational, political, and socioeconomic contexts in equity in public education spending, arguing that through appropriate policy and reorganization of school finance, policymakers can reform the organizational and political set-up of school districts for more effective public education.

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Political Economy of Public Education Finance clarifies organizational, political, and socioeconomic contexts in equity in public education spending, arguing that through appropriate policy and reorganization of school finance, policymakers can reform the organizational and political set-up of school districts for more effective public education.

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Armitage taught for one year in a British grammar school from 1971 to 1972 when the school amalgamated with a secondary modern school to form a comprehensive school.

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Chapters in this volume discuss the impact of statewide political transformation on teacher education programs.

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The essays in this book deal with situations or issues in public education which we need to address. While some of these situations seem clear and almost obvious, making the necessary changes and admitting the truth to ourselves is not necessarily going to happen easily.