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  • Restoring Opportunity

    The Crisis of Inequality and the Challenge for American Education

    by Greg J. Duncan, Richard J. Murnane ...
    In this landmark volume, Greg J. Duncan and Richard J. Murnane lay out a meticulously researched case showing how—in a time of spiraling inequality—strategically targeted interventions and supports can help schools significantly improve the life chances of low-income children.The authors offer a brilliant synthesis of recent research on inequality and its effects on families, children, and schools ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

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  • Action Research for Educators

    by Daniel R. Tomal ...
    Series series The Concordia University Leadership Series
    This book is a straightforward, no-nonsense guide to a research method that can be used by educators to increase student learning, student self-esteem, and quality of school life in the classroom. This user-friendly book covers the principles and history of action research, ethical and legal considerations, methods for conducting both formal and informal action research, data collection methods, ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Canaries Reflect on the Mine

    Dropouts' Stories of Schooling

    by Jeanne Cameron ...
    Series series Research for Social Justice: Personal~Passionate~Participatory Inquiry
    In Canaries Reflect on the Mine: Dropouts' Stories of Schooling, Jeanne Cameron invites the reader to see schooling and early school leaving through the eyes of high school dropouts themselves. The transcendent desires revealed by this research - to be known and valued, to learn with purpose and autonomy - are spoken with poignant clarity by the young people who story these pages.This study offers ... Read more

    $34.49 USD

  • Mathematics Teacher Education in the Public Interest

    Equity and Social Justice

    Edited by Laura J. Jacobsen, Jean Mistele, Bharath Sriraman ...
    Series series Cognition, Equity & Society: International Perspectives
    Mathematics teacher education has a critical role to play in preparing teachers to put at center stage goals to support equity in mathematics education and to diversify student interest and participation in mathematics. These goals must also resonate with broader public interest goals to improve educational and social conditions both in the U.S. and abroad. The Mathematics Teacher Education in the ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Action Learning in Schools

    Reframing teachers' professional learning and development

    by Peter Aubusson, Robyn Ewing, Garry Hoban ...
    Teaching is becoming increasingly complex in the 21st Century, creating a need for more sophisticated frameworks to support teachers’ professional learning. Action learning is one such framework and has been used for workplace learning in business settings for many years. It is now becoming increasingly popular in school and university settings, but it is often misunderstood. This book clarifies ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Handbook of Research on the Education of School Leaders

    Edited by Michelle D. Young, Gary M. Crow ...
    The Handbook of Research on the Education of School Leaders brings together empirical research on leadership preparation and development to provide a comprehensive overview and synthesis of what we know about preparing school leaders today. With contributions from the field’s foremost scholars, this new edition investigates the methodological foundations of leadership preparation research, reviews ... Read more

    $160.00 USD

  • Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve

    Profiles of Programs Helping All Students to Learn

    by James Deneen ...
    Schools That Succeed, Students Who Achieve compares the academic achievements of students in the United States to those of students in other countries. Examining fundamental questions and educational issues, James Deneen identifies what all students should learn and discusses what American students currently learn.Deneen argues that failing schools can become successful by studying examples of ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Envisioning a Critical Race Praxis in K-12 Education Through Counter-Storytelling

    by Jeffrey S. Brooks, Denise E. Armstrong, Ira Bogotch ...
    Series series Educational Leadership for Social Justice
    While critical race theory is a framework employed by activists and scholars within and outside the confines of education, there are limited resources for leadership practitioners that provide insight into critical race theory and the possibilities of implementing a critical race praxis approach to leadership. With a continued top-down approach to educational policy and practice, it is imperative ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Networking Practitioner Research

    by Colleen McLaughlin, Kristine Black-Hawkins, Donald McIntyre, Andrew Townsend ...
    A complement to Researching Schools by the same authors, this book provides readers with a strong theoretical framework for school-based research as well as valuable advice on the ways in which networks of specialist groups can work together to create a broad-ranging approach to educational research. Through a critical examination of existing research and current thinking, the authors draw out ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Black Males in Postsecondary Education

    Examining Their Experiences in Diverse Institutional Contexts

    Edited by Adriel A. Hilton, J. Luke Wood, Chance W. Lewis ...
    Series series Contemporary Perspectives on Access, Equity, and Achievement
    Black Males in Postsecondary Institutions: Examining their Experiences in Diverse Institutional Contexts offers a comprehensive examination of the experiences of Black males in our nation’s higher education institutions. In recognizing the role of institutions in fostering distinctive educational experiences, this volume systematically explores the status, academic achievement, and educational ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Mapping Frontier Research in the Humanities

    Edited by Claus Emmeche, David Budtz Pedersen, Professor Frederik Stjernfelt ...
    Knowledge production in academia today is burgeoning and increasingly interdisciplinary in nature. Research within the humanities is no exception: it is distributed across a variety of methodic styles of research and increasingly involves interactions with fields outside the narrow confines of the university. As a result, the notion of liberal arts and humanities within Western universities is ... Read more

    $39.69 USD

  • Teaching Young Learners in a Superdiverse World

    Multimodal Approaches and Perspectives

    Edited by Heather Lotherington, Cheryl Paige ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Education
    This book documents a collaborative action research project in one school where researchers and practitioners worked together to develop multimodal literacies and pedagogies for diverse, multilingual elementary classrooms. Following chronologically from Lotherington’s Pedagogy of Multiliteracies (2011), this volumepicks up after teachers and researchers have learned how to work efficiently as a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD