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Brings together a group of extraordinary educators and scholars who offer important insights about what we can do to defend childhood from societal challenges. The authors explain new findings from neuroscience and psychology, as well as emerging knowledge about the impact on child development of cultural and linguistic diversity, poverty, families and communities, and the media.

In Teaching with Vision, two respected scholars in teaching for social justice have gathered teachers from across the country to describe rich examples of extraordinary practice. This collection showcases the professional experience and wisdom of classroom teachers who have been navigating standards- and test-driven teaching environments in California and New York, without losing their vision of what teaching can be. Representing diverse backgrounds, schools, grade levels, subject areas, and specialties, these teachers talk personally about their practice, their challenges, and how they learned to maintain a social and pedagogical vision for their work. This book is essential reading for new teachers who are struggling to make their teaching inspiring, creative, and culturally responsive, especially those who are working in less than supportive environments.

Examines how multilingual schooling is handled in schools across the world with a series of case studies from South Africa, Germany, Colombia, Slovakia, New Zealand, and Taiwan. Demonstrating the commonalities among exemplars of practice, this book helps US educators construct effective policies for multilingual instruction in K-12 schools.

Presents research on the educational experiences and achievement of Asian American youth. This book reveals the ways in which larger structures of race and class play out in the lives of Asian American high school students, especially regarding presumptions that the educational experiences of Koreans, Chinese, and Hmong youth are all the same.

Examines electronic-media documentation of teaching practice. This book features cases studies that represent diverse grades, cultures, and contexts with both novice and veteran teachers. It offers examples of how multimedia representations of teaching can be used as alternative texts in teacher learning environments.

Features real teachers who share their stories, successful practices, and vivid examples of their students' creative and expository writing from online and multimedia projects, such as blogs, wikis, podcasts, electronic poetry, and more.

As America enters the 21st century, US students slip behind in the world's rankings in science and math. This book explores how America's performance globally is linked to the minority-majority achievement gap at home.

Offering a portrait of American Indian education, this book evaluates US education policies and practices - from early 20th century federal incarnations of colonial education through the standards movement. It reveals the falseness of fears attached to notions of ""dangerous cultural difference"".

Intended for teachers who want to engage their students with young adult literature. This book presents instructional units centered on historical conflicts and texts. It features an array of learning strategies, which place students close to the featured novel or memoir while meeting standards and addressing a range of critical thinking skills.

Challenges the ""model minority"" stereotype of Asian American students as a critical step toward educating all children well. Focusing on Korean American youth in New York City schools, this work compares high-achieving students attending a competitive magnet high school with students who have dropped out of a neighborhood high school.

"This practical guide shows secondary school teachers how to incorporate graphic novels into content area instruction as a tool for meeting the needs of diverse learners and achieving the goals of the Common Core State Standards."--

Provides a groundbreaking framework for teaching minority and low-income children. Changing the conversation from improving test scores to improving school experiences, the text features lessons learned from eight elementary schools whose leadership and staff implemented sustainable changes.

Offers teachers a new way to energize the teaching of writing while also meeting Common Core State Standards. The author draws on his unique background in education and media to provide this all-in-one resource to help teachers use the versatility of scriptwriting to motivate students and support literacy skills across the disciplines.

Examines teacher quality, work norms, and professional learning opportunities using data from 47 countries around the globe. This work compares and contrasts the United States with two high-achieving countries - Japan and Australia - that have implemented very different approaches to improving teacher quality.

Focuses on the personal experience of teachers and the practical realities of teaching, revealing how our nation's educators grapple with issues of race, class, gender in their daily lives. This title is suitable for progressive thinkers and those interested in how social justice theories translate to the real world.

Traces America's faith in the capacity of public education to solve various economic, and political problems civil from before the civil war up to the No Child Left Behind legislation. This book discusses how this faith in education makes it difficult for Americans to think realistically about the capacities and limitations of public schooling.