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  • "You Can't Fire the Bad Ones!"

    And 18 Other Myths about Teachers, Teachers Unions, and Public Education

    by Crystal Laura, William Ayers, Rick Ayers ...
    Series Book 7 - Myths Made in America
    Overturns common misconceptions about charter schools, school "choice," standardized tests, common core curriculum, and teacher evaluations.Three distinguished educators, scholars, and activists flip the script on many enduring and popular myths about teachers, teachers' unions, and education that permeate our culture. By unpacking these myths, and underscoring the necessity of strong and vital ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • (Un)Learning Disability

    Recognizing and Changing Restrictive Views of Student Ability

    by AnnMarie Baines ...
    Series series Disability, Culture, and Equity Series
    How do high school students confront and resolve conflicting messages about their intelligence and academic potential, particularly when labeled with social and learning disabilities? How does disability become “disablement” when negative attitudes and disparaging perceptions of ability position students as outsiders? Following the lives of adolescents at home and at school, the author makes ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Towards Creative Learning Spaces

    Re-thinking the Architecture of Post-Compulsory Education

    by Jos Boys ...
    This book offers new ways of investigating relationships between learning and the spaces in which it takes place. It suggests that we need to understand more about the distinctiveness of teaching and learning in post-compulsory education, and what it is that matters about the design of its spaces. Starting from contemporary educational and architectural theories, it suggests alternative conceptual ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youth

    Education and Inequality in an Era of Austerity

    by Dr Heather Mendick, Dr Aisha Ahmad, Dr Kim Allen, Dr Laura Harvey ...
    Celebrity, Aspiration and Contemporary Youthuses the lens of celebrity to explore how young people think about their futures under austerity. Based on an interdisciplinary study, the book offers fresh insights into contemporary youth aspirations and inequalities. It helps us to understand young people's transitions into adulthood at a time of socio-economic 'crisis'.Drawing on original data, the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Homeowner's Simple Guide to Property Tax Protest

    by Alison Willis-Jones, Venita Benitez ...
    A simple resource guide that takes you thru the property tax protest process. Includes a sample property tax bill for review. Includes simple steps on how to prepare for the submission of your property tax protest. Includes a definition section on common property tax terms. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Handbook of Research in Social Studies Education

    Edited by Linda S. Levstik, Cynthia A. Tyson ...
    This Handbook outlines the current state of research in social studies education – a complex, dynamic, challenging field with competing perspectives about appropriate goals, and on-going conflict over the content of the curriculum. Equally important, it encourages new research in order to advance the field and foster civic competence; long maintained by advocates for the social studies as a ... Read more

    $190.00 USD

  • Researching and Teaching Social Issues

    Edited by Samuel Totten, Jon E. Pedersen ...
    (orginally published by Lexington Books, A division of Rowman & Littlefield)Researching and Teaching Social Issues: The Personal Stories and Pedagogical Efforts of Professors of Education is comprised of original personal essays in which notable teacher educators delineate the genesis and evolution of their thought and work vis-a-vis the teaching of social issues. In relating their personal ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Critical Qualitative Research in Social Education

    Edited by Cameron White ...
    Critical qualitative research and social education are vital for the world of the 21st century. The onslaught of neoliberalism, corporatization, standardization, testing, and the continuing attack on public schools and educators necessitate critical approaches to teaching and learning along with critical qualitative research in social education. Ongoing issues with equity and social justice tied ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction

    Edited by Richard E. Mayer, Patricia A. Alexander ...
    Series series Educational Psychology Handbook
    During the past 30 years, researchers have made exciting progress in the science of learning (i.e., how people learn) and the science of instruction (i.e., how to help people learn). This second edition of the Handbook of Research on Learning and Instruction is intended to provide an overview of these research advances. With chapters written by leading researchers from around the world, this ... Read more

    $170.00 USD

  • Critical Democratic Education and LGBTQ-Inclusive Curriculum

    Opportunities and Constraints

    by Steven Camicia ...
    This book illustrates the relationship between politics and the ways in which lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) issues are taught in schools. This book examines relationships between society, schools, and LGBTQ inclusion in order to understand perennial issues related to critical democratic education, and how schools are responding to generational shifts in ideology. By ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Creating Meaningful Inquiry in Inclusive Classrooms

    Practitioners' stories of research

    Edited by Phyllis Jones, Teresa Whitehurst, Jo Egerton ...
    In recent years, the concept of teachers as researchers in both special and mainstream school settings has become part of our everyday language. Whilst many educational practitioners will see the need for research within their setting, many may not be familiar with the technical elements they believe are required.Creating Meaningful Inquiry in Inclusive Classrooms shows how practitioners can ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Moral Education

    Interdisciplinary Approaches

    Edited by Edmund Sullivan, Clive Beck, Brian Crittenden ...
    Series series Heritage
    This volume, based on an interdisciplinary conference of psychologists, sociologists, philosophers, and social scientists, explores a topic of vital importance today—moral education. The book is organized around four questions: the nature and scope of moral education, the problem of ethical pluralism, psychological considerations in a program of moral education, and the social structure of the ... Read more

    $38.19 USD