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  • Tests, Testing, and Genuine School Reform

    by Herbert J. Walberg ...
    The author draws on scientific studies of tests and their uses to show how standardized achievement tests must play a central role in improving achievement in K-12 schools. He explains the central considerations in developing and evaluating tests and tells how tests can best be best used, covering such topics as using tests for student incentives, paying teachers for performance, and using tests ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improving Schools to Promote Learning

    Action Principles for Families, Classrooms, Schools, Districts, and States

    by Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Improving Schools to Promote Learning is a concise and common-sense examination of all the moving parts that drive student learning. The book ties together the research, policies, and practices relative to the state, district, school, classroom, and family, and explains their effects on student learning. The author covers an array of topics, including technology, charter schools, turnaround ... Read more

    $44.29 USD

  • Advancing Student Achievement

    by Herbert J. Walberg ...
    A renowned educator-psychologist explains how children learn and how family, classroom, and school practices can help them learn more effectively. In addition to drawing on studies of learning outcomes, the author reveals economic research on teacher education and school choice that challenges many popular assumptions. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Improving Educational Productivity

    by David H. Monk, Margaret C. Wang, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Series series Research in Educational Productivity
    Covering such issues as teaching quality, the interface between public and private schooling, and measuring school efficiency, this text addresses the improvement of educational productivity in the USA ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • Education and Capitalism

    How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve

    by Joseph L. Bast, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    The authors call on the need to combine education with capitalism. Drawing on insights and findings from history, psychology, sociology, political science, and economics, they show how, if our schools were moved from the public sector to the private sector, they could once again do a superior job providing K–12 education. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Testing Student Learning, Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness

    by Williamson F. Evers, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    This book takes a hard look at the professional, technical, and public policy issues surrounding student achievement and teacher effectiveness—and shows how testing and accountability can play a vital role in improving American schools. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Nurturing Morality

    by Theresa A. Thorkildsen, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Series Book 5 - Issues in Children's and Families' Lives
    Despite often simplistic, black-and-white portrayals of good and evil, children and adolescents face complicated moral issues that can raise more questions than answers. Becoming aware of what constitutes morality is only the first step in determining a course of action, identifying and avoiding problems, and building communities that nurture morality.Young people learn to define and respond to ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Charter School Outcomes

    Edited by Mark Berends, Matthew G. Springer, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement. Starting in 1992-93 when the nation’s first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the movement has now spread to 40 states and the District of Columbia and by 2005-06 enrolled 1,040,536 students in 3,613 charter ... Read more

    $96.99 USD

  • Handbook on Statewide Systems of Support

    Edited by Sam Redding, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Series series Opportunity and Performance
    (published in co-operation with The Center on Innovation & Improvement)As subsequent chapters point out, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires states to provide assistance to districts in improving the schools within their purview. Of course, the U.S. Constitution and federal laws leave the control of education largely to the states, and states have long provided support to school districts ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • The Scientific Basis of Educational Productivity

    Edited by Rena F. Subotnik, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    Series series Research in Educational Productivity
    This volume is not primarily concerned with what students should learn, nor even how they should learn. Rather it concerns how we can discover the best means and conditions for teaching them in school, at home, and in society. Expressed more explicitly, we seek to find out how students can learn efficiently or productively as much as possible within a given amount of time and resources. As in ... Read more

    $50.09 USD

  • School Choice Or Best Systems

    What Improves Education?

    Edited by Margaret C Wang, Herbert J. Walberg ...
    This book addresses one of the most urgent questions in American society today, one that is currently in the spotlight and hotly debated on all sides: Who shall rule the schools--parents or educators?School Choice or Best Systems: What Improves Education? presents an overview of research and practical applications of innovative--even radical--school reforms being implemented across the United ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Can Unlike Students Learn Together?

    Grade Retention, Tracking, and Grouping

    Edited by Herbert J. Walberg, Arthur J. Reynolds, Margaret C. Wang ...
    Series series Research in Educational Productivity
    For the first time, this book brings together three controversial topics: homogeneous grouping of students within classrooms by ability or achievement criteria, tracking of students into courses of study by the same criteria, and retention of students in their present grade so that they repeat a year’s work instead of being promoted. The editors solicited syntheses of research on these topics from ... Read more

    $44.29 USD