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Enhancing Student Learning in Middle School
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 47.95A comprehensive introduction to middle school teaching, this textbook focuses explicitly on instructional strategies that encourage adolescents to become active participants in their own learning within a world of accountability and standardized testing. The author, an experienced middle school teacher and teacher educator, takes a constructivist... more...
Private Secondary Schools
Peterson's 2011; US$ 17.99Peterson's Private Secondary Schools is everything parents need to find the right private secondary school for their child. This valuable resource allows students and parents to compare and select from more that 1,500 schools in the U.S. and Canada, and around the world. Schools featured include independent day schools, special needs schools, and... more...
Read, Discuss, and Learn
R&L Education 2010; US$ 25.99This is a practical resource guide that walks teachers through the use of literacy groups within their classrooms over a typical 365-day journey of secondary students. The author provides educators with the tools to think about literacy groups, to create literacy groups, to design the best assessment to adequately evaluate students' comprehension and... more...
Fires in the Bathroom
New Press, The 2005; US$ 19.95Since its initial publication in hardcover in 2003, Fires in the Bathroom has been through multiple printings and received the attention of teachers across the country. Now in paperback, Kathleen Cushman?s groundbreaking book offers original insights into teaching teenagers in today?s hard-pressed urban high schools from the point of view of the... more...
Curriculum, Community, and Urban School Reform
Palgrave Macmillan 2010; US$ 32.00This book asserts that efforts to reform schools, particularly urban schools, are events that engender a host of issues and conflicts that have been interpreted through the conceptual lens of community. more...
Storytelling and Imagination: Beyond Basic Literacy 8-14
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 35.95Storytelling helps pupils develop a wide range of skills. Do they dream and fantasize? Do they lie, waffle and distract? These are not just bad habits but marvellous starting points for teaching an art that can help them to pass on experience, train and use imagination, develop language skills, promote their own confidence, communication and creativity... more...
Diploma Matters
Wiley 2011; US$ 29.95In our current education system too many high school students wind up with too few choices. Students are locked into what is decided for them by a broken system. Too often, they are handed a diploma that holds an empty promise. This practical field book is filled with effective tools from The Education TrustWest. Diploma Matters helps school... more...
Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls -- Secondary Level
Wiley 2011; US$ 29.95In his best-selling classic Boys and Girls Learn Differently , Michael Gurian explained the origin and nature of gender differences in the classroom. His important book explored the behavior teachers observed and the challenges they faced with both boys and girls in their classrooms. Taking the next step, Strategies for Teaching Boys and Girls?Secondary... more...
Great City Academy Fraud
Continuum International Publishing 2007; US$ 27.95This highly controversial and compelling book exposes the government’s city academies project: the ways in which companies and rich individuals have been persuaded to sponsor academies, their real reasons for sponsoring them, the lies that have been told in support of the academies project, and the disastrous effect it will have on Britain’s... more...
Hands Up!
John Murray 2009; US$ 22.64When Oenone Crossley-Holland started teaching at an inner city school in London, she had no idea what to expect. She just knew that there was no going back. She would have one of the most challenging and overwhelming years of her life, in which she would get involved in the lives of some wonderfully (and sometimes horrifyingly) exuberant students,... more...









