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The Misdirection of Education Policy poses critically important questions about the wisdom of American public education policy and reform initiatives. The approach suggested here is designed to offer an arterial that allows students and teachers to do more than simply prepare ...

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The Misdirection of Education Policy poses critically important questions about the wisdom of American public education policy and reform initiatives. The approach suggested here is designed to offer an arterial that allows students and teachers to do more than simply prepare ...

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Correct instructional level and self-esteem have never been fully addressed in public education. Principals and teachers who read the guidelines in this book and combine these simple requirements -- without additional monies -- can make American public education number one worldwide in literacy.

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This book examines the 1980 Nicaraguan Literacy Campaign, using a critical and global lens. At the intersections of literacy and power, the author provides historical context, focusing on the power of texts, community, class, and gender, promoting the potential of transforming education into an endeavor that is action-oriented.

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Analyses of education are too often developed for public consumption in a fast-moving political world. This book examines some of the deeper organizational reasons why things don't work so well in school, as well as a look at some of things that do work. Most importantly, the ...

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The Parent-School Board Feuds: Essential Steps by Parents to Improve Schools recounts parent-school board feuding about controversial classroom topics, their disagreements about school policies, and the impact that parents had during the pandemic and continue to have today.

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The Parent-School Board Feuds: Essential Steps by Parents to Improve Schools recounts parent-school board feuding about controversial classroom topics, their disagreements about school policies, and the impact that parents had during the pandemic and continue to have today.

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This book describes how Cuba managed, in spite of scarce resources, to successfully educate its entire population after the revolution in 1959 and is now entering the realm of digital media and the internet. It considers Cubas schools as well as its integrated systems such as healthcare and community mental health.

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This book describes how Cuba managed, in spite of scarce resources, to successfully educate its entire population after the revolution in 1959 and is now entering the realm of digital media and the internet. It considers Cubas schools as well as its integrated systems such as healthcare and community mental health.

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The systems that make up the accountability package in education: standards, assessments, and the quality determination for a school. In education the misalignment between what the systems were designed to do and the intent of those who selected them is masked in the sheer com...

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The Power and Freedom of Black Feminist and Womanist Pedagogy explores diverse perspectives on the liberating power of Black feminist and womanist pedagogical practices. The contributors boldly tell groundbreaking stories of their teaching experiences and their evolving relationships to Black feminist and womanist theory and criticism.

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The Prison Path: School Practices that Hurt Our Youth takes a unique and unapologetic look into the practices, social norms, construction, and policies within our schools that mirror prisons. From the physical building to the labeling and placement of special education student...

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What is race-based hierarchy The Promise of Whiteness focuses on the impact of the promise of "whiteness" upon American society in the past and future by examining its creation and evolution. Particular attention is given to the psychological needs met-and the fears, anxietie...

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The Relevance of Leadership Standards explores the links and importance between educational leadership and student learning. In each chapter, we go in depth exploring Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL), which provide a framework of the knowledge and skills needed for school leaders to be prepared for the challenges.

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The Relevance of Leadership Standards explores the links and importance between educational leadership and student learning. In each chapter, we go in depth exploring Professional Standards for Educational Leaders (PSEL), which provide a framework of the knowledge and skills needed for school leaders to be prepared for the challenges.

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This work challenges and broadens existing conceptions of teacher professional development used by teacher educators, and school administrators. Based on critical pedagogy, sociocultural principles and adult learning theories, it offers an alternative framework for understanding the relevance of teacher agency and how it can impact on education.

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This work challenges and broadens existing conceptions of teacher professional development used by teacher educators, and school administrators. Based on critical pedagogy, sociocultural principles and adult learning theories, it offers an alternative framework for understanding the relevance of teacher agency and how it can impact on education.

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This book explains how public education in this country became dysfunctional as a result of the education policies and programs funded by the federal government to address low academic achievement.

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Ideas for a new set of reform policies, based on empirical evidence and supportive of a unitary, equitable, and democratic system of education are presented.

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The School Reform Landscape: Fear, Mythologies, and Lies describes this nation's policymakers awkwardly stumbling through education reforms based on highly questionable political ideology and high-stakes assessments for all children. Provided are a series of actions that use ...

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This book offers a research and comparison-driven look at the school to prison pipeline, its racial dynamics, the connections to mass incarceration, and our flawed educational climate-and suggests practical remedies for change.