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City Kids, City Schools
New Press, The 2008; US$ 24.95Of the approximately 50 million public school students in the United States, more than half are in urban schools. A contemporary companion to City Kids, City Teachers: Reports from the Front Row , this new and timely collection has been compiled by four of the country?s most prominent urban educators. Contributors including Sandra Cisneros, Jonathan... more...
Classroom Conversations
New Press, The 2008; US$ 24.95In Classroom Conversations , two generations of educators?a mother and daughter?point us to the great thinkers who have shaped their beliefs and practices in education, and who continue to influence teachers today. Nineteen essays by educators from Dewey to Delpit offer parents and new educators an education degree in a nutshell. The Milettas frame... more...
Taking Measure of Charter Schools
R&L Education 2010; US$ 33.99This book breaks new ground on how policymakers and journalists can fairly assess charter school performance. The editors and authors show how good approaches to charter school assessment would also work for regular public schools, which is important because of the requirements of No Child Left Behind. more...
What's Wrong with Our Schools
R&L Education 2010; US$ 26.99This book examines the status of public education in North America and exposes many of the absurd instructional practices found in all-too-many schools. Written by three experienced educators, this book provides readers with a direct window into public education. The language is straightforward, the case studies based on real events, and the research... more...
The Power of Their Ideas
Beacon Press 2002; US$ 17.00Teaching the lessons of New York's most famous public school, Deborah Meier provides a widely acclaimed vision for the future of public education. With a new preface reflecting on the school's continuing success. From the Trade Paperback edition. more...
What Does It Mean to Be Well Educated?
Beacon Press 2004; US$ 16.00Time magazine has called him'perhaps the country's most outspoken critic of education's fixation on grades [and] test scores.' And the Washington Post says he is 'the most energetic and charismatic figure standing in the way of a major federal effort to make standardized curriculums and tests a fact of life in every U.S. school.' In this new collection... more...
Schooling and the Making of Citizens in the Long Nineteenth Century
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 140.00This book is a comparative history that explores the social, cultural, and political formation of the modern nation through the construction of public schooling. It asks how modern school systems arose in a variety of different republics and non-republics across four continents during the period from the late eighteenth century to the early twentieth... more...
Thinking about Schools
Westview Press 2011; US$ 58.00Specifically developed for students without an education background, this collection of readings provides accessible, essential articles for professors and students of introductory Foundations of Education courses. more...
Saving the School
Penguin Group US 2012; US$ 12.99Inside the race to save a great American high school, where making the numbers is only the beginning Being principal was never her dream. Anabel Garza, the young widow of a young cop, got by teaching English to immigrant children, taking college classes at night and raising her son. And Reagan High was no dream assignment. Once famous for its... more...
We Must Take Charge!
Free Press 2008; Not AvailableA Simon & Schuster eBook. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. more...









