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Author
Language
English
Description
"Why do some children succeed while others fail? The story we usually tell about childhood and success is the one about intelligence: success comes to those who score highest on tests, from preschool admissions to SATs. But in this book the author argues that the qualities that matter most have more to do with character: skills like perseverance, curiosity, conscientiousness, optimism, and self-control. The book introduces us to a new generation...
Author
Publisher
Broadside Books, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvii, 269 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Early in the twentieth century, Progressives quietly transformed America's schools. A hundred years later, they've succeeded beyond their wildest hopes. Behind a smokescreen of "preparing students for the new industrial economy," early Progressives had political control in mind. America's original schools didn't just make kids memorize facts or learn skills; they taught them to think freely and arrive at wisdom. They assigned the classics, inspired...
Author
Publisher
Broadleaf Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
196 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"A first-of-its-kind compelling exploration of what it means to be a Black woman in higher education. Black women are heading to college in record numbers, and more and more Black women are teaching in higher education. But increasing numbers in college don't guarantee our safety there. Willpower and grit may improve achievement for Black people in school, but they don't secure our belonging. In fact, the very structure of higher education ensures...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (24 pages) : color illustrations.
Language
English
Description
Examines the history of education in America, describing how American Indian children learned, what colonial and pioneer schools looked like, integration, and the role of technology. Features color photographs, fact boxes, a glossary, a timeline, an activity, and further resources.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal child care, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Korea, whose students consistently outscore Americans...
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 395 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Coaching for Equity is a comprehensive guide for educators who are committed to creating equitable schools. It offers concrete strategies, a sequence of action steps, inspiring anecdotes, information, and resources. It is written for educators at all entry points--from those who are just starting to cultivate an awareness of equity, to those who have led for equity for many years. It is a book for teachers, teacher leaders, principals, superintendents,...
Author
Publisher
Avid Reader Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Avid Reader Press hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
445 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"After more than thirty years in the classroom, award-winning teacher Phil Done decided that it was time to retire. His days of teaching schoolchildren may have come to an end, but a teacher's job is never truly done, and he set out to write the greatest lesson of his career: a book for educators and parents that would pass along everything he learned about working with kids. The result is this delightful and insightful teaching bible, The Art of...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
2nd ed.
Physical Desc
xi, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Provides an insider's view of the special education process for parents and teachers This book explores the special education process-from testing and diagnosis to IEP meetings and advocating for special needs children. Step by step the authors reveal the stages of identification, assessment, and intervention, and help readers to better understand special needs children's legal rights and how to become an active, effective member of a child's educational...
Publisher
AK Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
364 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"Born from sustained organizing, and rooted in Black and women of color feminisms, disability justice, and other movements, abolition calls for an end to our reliance on imprisonment, policing and surveillance, and to imagine a safer future for our communities. Lessons in Liberation: An Abolitionist Toolkit for Educators offers entry points to build critical and intentional bridges between educational practice and the growing movement for abolition....
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
xx, 233 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Told chronologically and divided into ten decades, The American Teacher sheds light on the important role that teachers have played in this country over the last one hundred years. It is parsed through the voices of educators, intellectuals, and journalists who have weighed in on its many different dimensions from the 1920s to today"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
125 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"What should we do to improve the lives of children growing up in adversity? From the best-selling author of How children succeed, a handbook to guide readers through the new science of success." -- From dust jacket.
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 283 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kendra James began her professional life selling a lie. As an admissions officer specializing in diversity recruitment for select prep schools, her job was persuading students and families to embark on the same perilous journey, attending cutthroat and largely white schools similar to The Taft School, an elite institution in Connecticut where she had been the first African-American legacy student only a few years earlier. Forced to reflect on her...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Provided is an engaging and inspiring look at public education in the United States. This documentary has helped launch a movement to achieve a real and lasting change through the compelling stories of five unforgettable students such as Emily, a Silicon Valley eighth-grader who is afraid of being labeled as unfit for college, and Francisco, a Bronx first-grader whose mom will do anything to give him a shot at a better life. Included are featurettes,...
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
800L
Physical Desc
1 online resource (32 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
Discusses the school life of children who lived in the thirteen colonies, including lessons, books, teachers, examinations, and special days.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death...