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This book emphasizes the need to understand how the corporate mentality and impersonal business of school can easily get in the way of the heart of teaching and learning.

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Teaching history should not simply be an endless recitation of irrelevant facts, entombed between the covers of a textbook. Instead, Breaking Away from the Textbook offers a fascinating journey through world history. Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book instead f...

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Not a comprehensive, theory-heavy guide, this book focuses on active classroom activities, methods for students to grapple with humanity's issues, and innovative ways to show students the relevance of the past to the world today.

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This book examines actual classroom events of racial and gender discord. It employs the theoretical lenses of pragmatism, whitenes studies, critical race theory, and poststructuralism to offer an original analysis of how students come to embody their races and genders through ...

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This book is a resource for experienced and newly interested faculty alike to incorporate EDI strategies and activities into their classrooms.

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Breaking Down the Barriers is the story of supervision and intervention in the public schools system. It allows the practitioner to peruse the research that the practical applications are based upon, and follow the suggestions that are offered for the successful implementation of evidenced-based practice.

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This book assists preservice teachers in building their own capacity to transition effectively into a professional school environment. Filled with practical advice and insights, it will show novice teachers how to maximize their preservice teaching time in a way that leverages them for success in the classroom.

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We need a more creative approach to teaching writing. A methodology incorporating creativity, as modeled by students in this text, demonstrates the kind of progress we are all seeking, offering an exciting challenge for young writers and educators alike.

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In recent decades, the crisis of college affordability has emerged as one of the defining challenges of our era. Since 1978, college tuition and fees have soared by 1,120 percent, growing at three times the rate of housing prices and four times the rate of the increase in the ...

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In recent decades, the crisis of college affordability has emerged as one of the defining challenges of our era. Since 1978, college tuition and fees have soared by 1,120 percent, growing at three times the rate of housing prices and four times the rate of the increase in the ...

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This book demonstrates how school reforms of the past 200 years share many common flaws. Based on an intensive three-year study of school reform in the United States, Breaking the Cycle of Failed School Reform analyzes and critiques the following historical reform movements: L...

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Americas failure to educate its urban children is evidenced by our woeful statistics. If it is possible to turn around this bleak pictureand it isthis is a story well worth telling. And this is what Breaking the Cycle aims to do.

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Successful classroom management is invariably tied to student engagement and empowerment: teachers who are singled out for excellent classroom management practices are often praised for successfully maintaining a strong instructional focus in their classes coupled with high le...

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The narratives presented in Breaking the Mold of Education for Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students are rooted in classrooms, districts, communities, teacher preparation programs from around the United States and many corners of the world. The unique initiatives port...

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The compelling chapters shared in this volumefocused on innovation and transformationwill help thrust education and teacher action (rather than reaction) in a positive trajectory of change.

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This unique collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative preservice and inservice teacher education practices from many regions of the United States, Canada and the world. Each of the chapters offers an authentic, documentary account of successful initiatives that break the traditional mold of teacher education.

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This one-of-a-kind collection of chapters takes the reader on a tour to explore innovative practices from classrooms, schools, districts, communities, and faraway places in the world.

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School leaders search for effective and practical ways to live out what research tells us makes a difference in student learning. Research literature is easy to embrace theoretically, but it is much more difficult to turn research into compelling collective action.

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This collection offers snapshots and reflections on teaching reading in disciplinary contexts, grounded in threshold concept theory and the experiences of practitioners. Chapters describe activities, routines, and practices that help students struggle successfully with academic reading.

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This collection offers snapshots and reflections on teaching reading in disciplinary contexts, grounded in threshold concept theory and the experiences of practitioners. Chapters describe activities, routines, and practices that help students struggle successfully with academic reading.

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This book examines the effects of Brexit on UK higher education, based on the largest academic research project conducted in the UK across 12 universities in all four nations.

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Bridging Minds Across the Pacific offers new insight into U.S.DChina relations by looking at the far-reaching dynamics of educational exchanges between these two countries in the last twenty-five years. Cheng Li and this volume's distinguished contributors focus on the importa...

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This book provides a practical understanding of digital literacy and information on integrating digital technology into English Language Arts and literacy instruction at the K-6 grade levels.

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This book provides a practical understanding of digital literacy and information on integrating digital technology into English Language Arts and literacy instruction at the K-6 grade levels.