Bøker av Patricia H. Hinchey

How is it, this text asks, that given such good intentions among education professionals, things in schools can go so very wrong? The problem, Hinchey and Konkol posit, is that unspoken and misleading assumptions result in choices, decisions and policies with disastrous consequences for kids.

This engaging and accessible text is designed to help tomorrow's teachers anticipate the diversity of contemporary classrooms and to understand and meet the needs of English language learners. Topics are aligned with typical state standards for teacher preparation and include: culture, language, literacy development, instruction and assessment, programs, policies, politics, and professionalism.

The Graduate Grind looks closely at the culture of graduate school in an effort to uncover why graduate students routinely experience extreme depression, illness, divorce and sometimes even suicide and murder.

At a time when American public schools are increasingly re-segregating, underfunded, and as unequal as they were in earlier decades, this classic book can help readers grasp links between a slavery past and a dismal present for many people of colour.

Finding Freedom in the Classroom

A survey of the evolution of student rights, from children as property to free speech, prayer in the classroom, compulsory flag salutes, school searches, drug testing, and the right to equal education.