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Focusing on the problems of heterosexism and homophobia in schools, this book explores how these forms of oppression impact LGBTQQ youth, as well as all young people. The author shows how concerned teachers can engage students in literacy practices both in and out of school to develop positive learning environments.

Providing research-based evidence for how the widespread application of ICT can provide powerful learning opportunities that lead to lasting gains and achievement, the authors show how the integrated use of technology at all levels of the educational system can greatly expand collaborative learning opportunities by giving all educational stakeholders powerful problem-solving tools and solutions.

What can a college admissions officer safely predict about the future of a 17-year-old? Are the best and the brightest students the ones who can check off the most correct boxes on a multiple-choice exam? Or are there better ways of measuring ability and promise? In this penetrating and revealing look at high-stakes standardized admissions tests, Joseph Soares demonstrates the far-reaching and mostly negative impact of the tests on American life and calls for nothing less than a national policy change. SAT Wars presents a roadmap for rethinking college admissions that moves us past the statistically weak and socially divisive SAT/ACT. The author advocates for evaluation tools with a greater focus on what youth actually accomplish in high school as a more reliable indicator of qualities that really matter in one's life and to one's ability to contribute to society. This up-to-date book features contributions by well-known experts, including a piece from Daniel Golden, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting in the Wall Street Journal on admissions, and a chapter on alternative tests from Robert Sternberg, who is the worlds most-cited living authority on educational research. As we continue to debate the use and misuse of standardized testing, SAT Wars will be important reading for a wide audience, including college administrators and faculty, high school guidance counselors, education journalists, and parents.

Expanding on the notion of inclusion well beyond special education to include English language learners, students with refugee status, LGBTQ children, poor children, and other underrepresented populations, this resource provides strategies that school leaders can employ to improve teaching and learning in their school or classroom.

Highlighting the work of talented writing center teachers who share practices and lessons learned from today's most important high school writing centers, this book offers innovative methods for secondary educators who deal with adolescent literacy, English language learners, new literacies, embedded professional development, and differentiated instruction.

Based on research from multiple disciplines, this book describes the presence and growth of diversity in the United States from its earliest years to the present. The author explores the evolution of the concept of pluralism from a philosophical term to a concept used in many disciplines and with global significance.

Features teachers and teacher educators who report their experiences of culturally responsive literacy teaching in primarily high poverty, culturally non-dominant communities. These extraordinary teachers show us what culturally responsive literacy teaching looks like in their classrooms and how it advances children's academic achievement.

Bringing this bestselling guide completely up-to-date, the authors address the current state of racism and anti-racism in the United States (including the election of the first African-American president); review recent child development research; discuss state standards and NCLB pressures on early childhood teaching; and more. The text includes teaching strategies, activities for families and staff, reflection questions, and updated organizational and website resources.

Addresses the question of what educators can do to close the literacy achievement gap. It begins by outlining theory and research and then provides practical strategies to help teachers improve the literacy learning of students of diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.

Traces how John Dewey, like most of his contemporaries, struggled with the major dilemma of how to reconcile evolution, pedagogy, democracy, and race. The author seeks to capture Dewey's original meaning by placing him in his own intellectual and cultural context. Dewey and the Dilemma of Race is the first comprehensive intellectual biography to trace the development of Dewey's educational views.

This one-of-a-kind collection brings together a wide-range of people who have wondered, looked at, revised, acted, questioned, and changed their world because of their connection to American philosopher Maxine Greene. Friends, students, colleagues, teache

Explores what happens when we introduce students to the words of a broad spectrum of scholars, writers, and artists and then invite them to examine, debate, and negotiate the ideas presented. Mary Dilg provides a safe space to explore complex issues and includes samples of classroom writing to demonstrate how students use their language arts classroom to make sense of themselves and their world.

This is the story of Cibola High School, a remarkable public school that set itself a daring goal: every one of its students would not just graduate, but would continue on to post-secondary education. With that goal in mind, the teachers, administrators, and counselors created a unique environment that provided the support necessary for students to realize their ambitions. No flash in the pan, Cibola High School has been meeting its goal for over 20 graduations. Opened to serve an expanding district, Cibola is located across the border from Mexico. The majority of its students receive free lunch, and 74% of its population consists of Latino students, many of them recent immigrants. Through anecdotes and the voices of teachers, school leaders, and students, this book shows the process that has, year-in and year-out, produced results and defied the low expectations that such demographic data predict. Based on an analysis of extensive interviews and research, the author identifies and explores five critical elements associated with the success of this school: unequivocal, uncompromising high expectations; distributed, focused leadership; assertive guidance and counseling; intensive instruction for English language learners; flexible responses to problems and development of alternative program pathways to success. With our national dropout pandemic, this is a book with implications not just for schools with high Latino/a populations but for all high schools throughout the nation.

An examination of the role of play in the lives of children. Based on close observations of a school playground, this shows children at play in a relatively natural, unstructured environment, and makes a strong case for the importance of free exploration, wonder, imagination, and play to the learning and growth of children.

Examines the use of mixed methods for conducting language and literacy research, defining how and why this approach is successful for solving problems that researchers encounter. It explores how an intermingling of multiple methods expands the possibilities of observation and interpretation and leads to more robust validity and deeper understanding.

Shows how we can break the cycle of poverty and disadvantage and change the odds for children at risk. Describing how previous reforms have missed the mark, the author offers a framework based on seven essential principles for implementing more effective programs and policies.

Pulling together the research on the effects of restrictive language policies, this volume focuses on what we know about the actual outcomes for students and teachers in California, Arizona, and Massachusetts - states where these policies have been adopted. It features contributions from well-known educators and scholars in bilingual education.

In this volume, teachers from urban, suburban, and rural districts join together in a teacher inquiry group to challenge homophobia and heterosexism in schools and classrooms. To create safe learning environments for all students they address key topics, including seizing teachable moments, organizing faculty, deciding whether to come out in the classroom, using LGBTQ-inclusive texts, running a Gay-Straight Alliance, changing district policy to protect LGBTQ teachers and students, dealing with resistant students, and preparing preservice teachers to do antihomophobia work.

Examines the work of elementary-level, non-supervisory, school-embedded, instructional teacher leader roles using research-based case studies. The authors use research to identify the fundamental components of instructional teacher leadership, which they present in the form of cases that are drawn from actual schools.

Details the positive impact that community-based organizations can have in rebuilding the lives of urban black youth, through a process the author calls radical healing. This book shows readers how caring adults in a community setting are able to create safe spaces for youth to turn away from neighborhood violence and their own traumatic pasts.

Early childhood education programs are expected to provide exemplary care for all children while also adapting care to include children's families and cultures. In this book, Carollee Howes shows how high-quality programs successfully adapt child development guidelines within cultural contexts, and why quality needs to be and can be measured in culturally specific ways.

Argues that schools cannot wait around for conditions to improve or policymakers to figure out how to provide the 'right' support. This book describes a small set of key practices that schools can use to get resources, manage external demands, and build their capacity to make and sustain improvements over time.

Challenges educators to view adolescent literacy as a 'civil right' that enables students to understand essential content and to develop as independent learners. This book offers frameworks to help teachers implement those practices in their own schools. It is suitable for professional learning communities, study groups, and individual teachers.

Offers advice on how to help both parents and teens survive adolescence in the digital age. This title provides practical advice on key parenting topics, including how to have frank discussions about sex, counteracting peer pressure, protecting children from predators, when teens start dating, sexually active teens, and more.