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  • The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom

    • ASIN: 1439143137
    • ISBN: 1439143137
    • Brand: Free Press
    • Manufacturer: Free Press

  • Lost at School: Why Our Kids with Behavioral Challenges are Falling Through the Cracks and How We Can Help Them

    • ASIN: B001FA0IN8
    • Manufacturer: Scribner

  • Letters to a Young Education Reformer (Educational Innovations Series)

    • ASIN: 1682530221
    • ISBN: 1682530221
    • Manufacturer: Harvard Education Press

    In Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess distills knowledge from twenty-five years of working in and around school reform. Inspired by his conversations with young, would-be reformers who are passionate about transforming education, the book offers a window into Hess’s thinking about what education reform is and should be.   H... [Read More]

  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too: Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education (Race, Education, and Democracy)

    • ASIN: B00Z3E2LVO
    • Manufacturer: Beacon Press

    A New York Times Best SellerMerging real stories with theory, research, and practice, a prominent scholar offers a new approach to teaching and learning for every stakeholder in urban education.Drawing on his own experience of feeling undervalued and invisible in classrooms as a young man of color and merging his experiences with more than a decade... [Read More]

  • Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms

    • ASIN: B071CPJ9LP
    • Manufacturer: W. W. Norton & Company

    Easy-to-implement classroom lessons from the world’s premier educational system.Finland shocked the world when its fifteen-year-olds scored highest on the first Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a set of tests touted for evaluating critical-thinking skills in math, science, and reading. That was in 2001; but even today, this ... [Read More]

  • Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education

    • ASIN: 041588666X
    • ISBN: 041588666X
    • Brand: Routledge
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    Strategic Management of Human Capital in Education offers a comprehensive and strategic approach to address what has become labeled as "talent and human capital." Grounded in extensive research and examples of leading edge districts, this book shows how the entire human resource system in schools―from recruitment, to selection/placement, inductio... [Read More]

  • Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling

    • ASIN: B0097DE6XI
    • Manufacturer: New Society Publishers

  • Your Classroom Guide to Special Education Law

    • ASIN: 1598579711
    • ISBN: 9781598579710
    • Manufacturer: Brookes Publishing

    When you're teaching students who have special needs, what are your legal responsibilities? How can you provide appropriate, legally compliant special education services—and avoid pitfalls that could lead to due process hearings and court dates? Turn to this interactive quick guide for concise, accessible answers. The antidote to thick, cumbersom... [Read More]

  • The New Education: How to Revolutionize the University to Prepare Students for a World In Flux

    • ASIN: B01N0WU65A
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

    A leading educational thinker argues that the American university is stuck in the past--and shows how we can revolutionize it for our era of constant change Our current system of higher education dates to the period from 1865 to 1925. It was in those decades that the nation's new universities created grades and departments, majors and minors, all ... [Read More]

  • College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students

    • ASIN: B00B77UE06
    • Manufacturer: Amazon Publishing

    What is the value of a college degree?The four-year college experience is as American as apple pie. So is the belief that higher education offers a ticket to a better life. But with student-loan debt surpassing the $1 trillion mark and unemployment of college graduates at historic highs, people are beginning to question that value. In College (Un)b... [Read More]

  • Flunked (Fairy Tale Reform School Book 1)

    • ASIN: B00ORXKSUI
    • Manufacturer: Sourcebooks Young Readers

    Would you send a villain to do a hero's job? Flunked is an exciting new twisted fairy tale from the award-winning author of the Secrets of My Hollywood Life series. "Charming fairy-tale fun." -Sarah Mlynowski, author of the New York Times bestselling Whatever After series.Gilly wouldn't call herself wicked, exactly...but when you have five little b... [Read More]

  • The Captured Economy: How the Powerful Enrich Themselves, Slow Down Growth, and Increase Inequality

    • ASIN: 019062776X
    • ISBN: 019062776X
    • Brand: OXFORD
    • Manufacturer: Oxford University Press

    For years, America has been plagued by slow economic growth and increasing inequality. In The Captured Economy, Brink Lindsey and Steven M. Teles identify a common factor behind these twin ills: breakdowns in democratic governance that allow wealthy special interests to capture the policymaking process for their own benefit. They document the proli... [Read More]

  • The Brain Power Classroom: 10 Essentials for Focus, Mindfulness, and Emotional Wellness

    • ASIN: B01M2DIZWY
    • Manufacturer: Best Life Media

    Create a Focused, Positive, and Engaged Classroom!Through expert guidance and inspiring stories from the field, Dave Beal helps you create a Brain Power Classroom full of engaged, focused and collaborative students.Part 1 provides scientific background, principles and insightful advice for creating an optimal classroom atmosphere. Part 2 features 3... [Read More]

  • Marx And Education (Routledge Key Ideas in Education)

    • ASIN: 0415803306
    • ISBN: 0415803306
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

    There was only one Karl Marx, but there have been a multitude of Marxisms.  This concise, introductory book by internationally renowned scholar Jean Anyon centers on the ideas of Marx that have been used in education studies as a guide to theory, analysis, research, and practice. Marx and Education begins with a brief overview of basic Marxist ide... [Read More]

  • Ditch That Homework: Practical Strategies to Help Make Homework Obsolete

    • ASIN: B0748NHGX8
    • Manufacturer: Dave Burgess Consulting, Inc.

    Students hate it. Parents wonder if it’s worth the tears, frustration, and nightly arguments. Teachers debate whether it’s really helpful or just busywork that consumes their precious time.One thing everyone can agree on is that homework is a contentious topic.In Ditch That Homework, Matt Miller and Alice Keeler discuss the pros and cons of hom... [Read More]

  • The Kindness Curriculum: Stop Bullying Before It Starts (NONE)

    • ASIN: 1605541249
    • ISBN: 1605541249
    • Brand: Redleaf Press
    • Manufacturer: Redleaf Press

    94 character-building activities for a peaceful and supportive learning environmentHelp preschoolers develop compassion for others with this collection of classroom and at-home activities. These simple but powerful lessons help children practice loving values as they contribute to a supportive learning environment—a place where all children seek ... [Read More]

  • The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur's Vision of the Future

    • ASIN: B010MH1ENW
    • Manufacturer: Simon & Schuster

    The #1 New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestseller from Steve Case—the co-founder of AOL—presents “a compelling roadmap for the future…that can help us make sense of the technological changes reshaping our economy and the world. A fascinating read” (Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook COO and founder of LeanIn.org).Steve Case—a pioneer who ... [Read More]

  • Excellence Through Equity: Five Principles of Courageous Leadership to Guide Achievement for Every Student

    • ASIN: B01CIR1W9A
    • Manufacturer: ASCD

    Excellence Through Equity is an inspiring look at how real-world educators are creating schools where all students are able to thrive. In these schools, educators understand that equity is not about treating all children the same. They are deeply committed to ensuring that each student receives what he or she individually needs to develop their ful... [Read More]

  • Rethinking Leadership: A Collection of Articles

    • ASIN: 1412936993
    • ISBN: 1412936993
    • Brand: Corwin
    • Manufacturer: Corwin

    In this updated collection of revolutionary articles, Sergiovanni encourages school leaders to discover the craft of moral leadership, practice effective instructional leadership, and build strong learning communities.

  • Finnish Lessons 2.0: What Can the World Learn from Educational Change in Finland?, Second Edition

    • ASIN: B00SZ7L8M4
    • Manufacturer: Teachers College Press

    The first edition of Finnish Lessons won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award in Education in 2013. It was featured inThe New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, The Atlantic, The Guardian, CNN, Education Week, The Huffington Post, and Dan Rather Reports and has been translated into 16 languages.Now, with Finnish Lesson... [Read More]

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