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This timely book, Making College Better: Views from the Top, offers more rational and practical responses to that public outcry by allowing college presidents and chancellors from a wide variety of postsecondary institutions the opportunity to address, in measured ways, many complex issues and how they might be untangled.

Presenting multiple perspectives on a wide array of crucial issues, this book features realistic representations of students, faculty, curriculum, administration, and the socio-cultural conditions that shape higher education. The incisive essays are written by practitioners on the front lines of the academy's battle to validate and sustain its core principles in a complex, rapidly evolving world.

Presenting multiple perspectives on a wide array of crucial issues, this book features realistic representations of students, faculty, curriculum, administration, and the socio-cultural conditions that shape higher education. The incisive essays are written by practitioners on the front lines of the academy's battle to validate and sustain its core principles in a complex, rapidly evolving world.

A Persistent Reformer

A Persistent Reformer

An examination of twenty-four at-risk adolescent girls' writing practices in a Third Space setting located within a school but outside of the confines of a regular classroom. It offers educators insights into teaching writing to adolescent girls who are falling through the cracks of the public education system in the United States.

From Silent Witnesses to Active Agents

Explores the beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors of adolescent girls and boys and female teachers in order to expose the continuing persistence of sexual harassment in the United States. This book addresses the sexual double standard that continues to hold girls and women accountable for male sexual aggression.

An exploration of research, ideas, trends, and practices for educators who teach American history to adolescents from the middle grades through high school. It includes World of Practice sections - contributions from practitioners on topics such as teaching history with comic books, and the role of controversial topics in the history classroom.

Brings a perspective to one of the protracted issues affecting young lives - disengagement from schooling. This book examines disengagement from the vantage point of the lives, experiences, interests and aspirations of the communities from which young people come, and within which they are embedded.

This book elucidates the complexities, contradictions, and confusion surrounding adolescence in American culture and education.

The Dynamic Student Development Metatheodel (DSDM) is a meta-theory based on empirically based inferences drawn from a national survey entitled the University Learning Outcomes Assessment (UniLOA).

As many young adults continue to disengage with learning each day, teachers and administrators struggle to find programming that re-engages secondary students with their schooling and communities. This book profiles one program that succeeds in doing so, and should serve as a model for others.

Becoming Educated examines the education of young people, especially those from the most `disadvantaged' contexts. This book shifts the focus to matters such as taking social class into consideration, puncturing notions of poverty and disadvantage, understanding neighborhoods as places of hope and creating spaces within which to listen to young peoples' aspirations.

Living on the Edge: Rethinking Poverty, Class and Schooling, Second Edition confronts one of the most enduring and controversial issues in education-the nexus between poverty and underachievement.

Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this title highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop.

Illuminating hip-hop as an important cultural practice and a global social movement, this title highlights the emancipatory messages and cultural work generated by the organic intellectuals of global hip-hop.

Suitable for teachers, school administrators, educational scholars, and students who have an interest in making schools a vital community resource, this study attempts to restore CSL's philosophical bearings, arguing that there are particular understandings of its components that imply particular kinds of educational practices.

Boys' Bodies

Today's College Students: A Reader looks at a wide variety of student groups and identities, which sets it apart from other texts on contemporary college students that do not cover such a broad spectrum.