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Provides advice to help parents and students through the admissions process for schools in New York. This guide uncovers the ""inside scoop"" about school atmosphere, homework, student stress, competition among students, the quality of teachers, gender issues, the condition of the building, class size, and more.

An examination of how literacy coaching can improve instructional practice. This work offers research-based strategies that can be used to create the professional and dynamic relationships needed for successful teacher - coach collaborations.

Learning to read should be easy and effortless, but in schools it often is not. Why is this so? This work addresses questions that are frequently asked at workshops and conferences about learning, prediction, phonics, stories, meaning, writing, and the brain.

Argues that our national failure to carry out the Brown mandate has produced segregated urban school systems that fail poor students of color. Drawing on an array of research and personal experience, this book examines why urban districts have failed and what must be done to transform our city schools.

Examines how the multiple dimensions of race, class, culture, power and knowledge interact in mathematics classrooms to foster and create inequities. This book explores theoretical perspectives, describes successful classroom practices, and offers insights into how we might develop an effective sociocultural approach to equity in math education.

In this innovative book, Nathalie Sinclair makes a compelling case for the inclusion of the aesthetic in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Using a provocative set of philosophical, psychological, mathematical, technological, and educational insights, she illuminates how the materials and approaches we use in the mathematics classroom can be enriched for the benefit of all learners. While ranging in scope from the young learner to the professional mathematician, there is a particular focus on middle school, where negative feelings toward mathematics frequently begin. Offering specific recommendations to help teachers evoke and nurture their students' aesthetic abilities, this book: Features powerful episodes from the classroom that show students in the act of developing a sense of mathematical aesthetics. Analyzes how aesthetic sensibilities to qualities such as connectedness, fruitfulness, apparent simplicity, visual appeal, and surprise are fundamental to mathematical inquiry. Includes examples of mathematical inquiry in computer-based learning environments, revealing some of the roles they play in supporting students' aesthetic inclinations.

Discusses how teachers can develop a classroom in which students learn to trust each other. This work examines the connections of these classroom relationships to moral theory and moral behavior; and presents the ways teachers think about the many dimensions of classroom relationships.

There is an assault on the independence of teachers of reading, mandated under the No Child Left Behind legislation, which regards reading as an unnatural act requiring contrived systematic instruction. This book provides the evidence and arguments that teachers need to resist this mechanistic view; and describes how reading should not be taught.

Uses vision to shed light on the complex relationship between teachers' ideals and the realities of school life. Through the stories of four teachers, this work reveals how teacher educators can help new teachers articulate, develop, and sustain their visions and assist them as they navigate the gap between their visions and their daily work.

Provides practical guidance for working with children to promote creative play, and to positively influence the lessons about violence that children learn.

Gloria Ladson-Billings, acclaimed African American scholar and teacher educator, examines the field of teacher education through the accomplishments and contributions of well-known African American teacher educators - Lisa Delpit, Carl Grant, Jacqueline Jordan Irvine, Geneva Gay, Cherry McGee Banks, William Tate, and Joyce King.

Contemporary public policy assumes that the achievement gap between black and white students could be closed if only schools would do a better job. In this book, Rothstein points the way toward social and economic reforms that would give all children a more equal chance to succeed in school.

Aims help new and veteran teachers develop the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to successfully address racial controversies in their classrooms. The author explains what race and racism mean and why we need to talk about these topics in schools.

This book provides the education and mathematics education communities - researchers, teachers, teacher educators, and curriculum developers - with examples of children's understanding and learning of mathematical notations, as well as with reflections regarding the role of mathematical notations in children's learning of mathematics.

Clark and Zimmerman present contemporary issues and theories regarding the education of artistically talented students. The authors provide nuts-and-bolts information on how teachers and administrators can develop curriculum and programs that help students realize their visual-arts talents.

The activities in this 24-page workbook prepare participants to use the ITERS-R, including explanations for the scoring system, terms used throughout the Scale, protocols for observation, sample situations for scoring practice, and more.This Workbook is to be used in conjunction with the Video Observation for the ITERS DVD, as part of a training package. Each participant will require a personal copy of the Video Guide and Training Workbook, which can be reproduced for use in the classroom for educational purposes only.

This volume offers information on the state of diversity in independent schools. Featuring the findings of a five-year study alongside personal stories by teachers and students of colour, the book looks at the progress independent schools are making to attract and retain teachers of colour.

This work provides educators with advice on how to integrate preventive mental health practice into public schools. It discusses the mandate for violence prevention and offers an intervention framework for teachers, administrators who want to improve the emotional climate in their school.

This is an introduction to Brazilian educator Paulo Freire and German critical theorist Jurgen Habermas. It compares their theories and situates their thinking in relation to other social theories and philosophies of education.

This text moves beyond theory to present day-to-day experiences of change in school communities. Community members, including business leaders, teachers and parents share their experiences of trying to create school communities in which adults help children to develop and learn.

Studies the educational and social lives of African American males. The book pays attention to educational attainment, job procurement, and quality of life, discussed against the backdrop of student background and schooling. Its aim is to improve the academic and social outcomes of this population.

This text openly addresses the specific educational realities and needs of gay-headed families. It explores why gayness is percieved as such a threat, especially to the education of young children, when it has the potential to enrich the worldviews of both children and adults.

Confronting the expected tension between care and justice, this work reveals how these two moral orientations can work together to produce wiser and more practical policies and practices. It explores problems at every level of education and tackles questions in theory, practice, and policy-making.

Excerpts from 34 documents and commentary concerning U.S. education in the twentieth century are presented. Each document represents a landmark in the development of American education. Perspectives are also provided on conditions and dilemmas still being addressed by educators today. Among the issues covered are minority education, the Depression of the 1930s, the development of the federal role in education, and the relationship between higher education and elementary/secondary schools. The educational history is divided as follows: the transformation of education, 1900-1929; continuity and change, 1930-1941; educational excellence in a democratic society, 1942-1963; the expansion of opportunity, 1964-1980; and dilemmas of the 1980s. The tension between equality of opportunity and educational quality is a central theme in the recent development of American education.

Examines the complex role student silence can play in teaching and learning. Urging teachers to listen to student silence in various ways, this book offers examples and strategies for 'rethinking classroom participation' to include the students - those eager to raise their hands to speak and those who may pause or answer in different ways.

Language and literacy instruction in English needs to begin early and continue throughout the elementary years. This book provides research-based, best practices for developing language and literacy from kindergarten through 5th grade. It encourages teachers to build on ELL students' linguistic and cultural background knowledge.