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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “jane bernard powers”
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  • The 'Girl Question' in Education (RLE Edu F)

    Vocational Education for Young Women in the Progressive Era

    by Jane Bernard-Powers ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Education
    This book is a history of the genesis and development of vocational education for young women in the United States. Home economics, trade training and commercial education – the three key areas of vocational training available to young women during the progressive era – are the focus of this work. Beginning with a study of the "woman question", or what women were supposed to be, the book traces ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

  • Bending the Future to Their Will

    Civic Women, Social Education, and Democracy

    by Chara Haeussler Bohan, O L. Davis Jr, Sherry Field, Andra Makler, Frances E. Monteverde, Andrew Dean Mullen, Petra Munro Henry, Murry R. Nelson, Jane Bernard-Powers, Elizabeth Anne Yeager ...
    This lively and thought-provoking collective biography uncovers the contributions of past women educators who promoted a distinctive vision of citizenship education. A distinguished group of scholars, including editors Margaret Smith Crocco and O. L. Davis, Jr., consider the lives and perspectives of eleven women educators and social activists_Jane Addams, Mary Sheldon Barnes, Mary Ritter Beard, ... Read more

    $42.19 USD

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  • What Teachers Make

    In Praise of the Greatest Job in the World

    by Taylor Mali ...
    In praise of the greatest job in the world...The right book at the right time: an impassioned defense of teachers and why we need them now more than ever.Teacher turned teacher’s advocate Taylor Mali inspired millions with his original poem “What Teachers Make,” a passionate and unforgettable response to a rich man at a dinner party who sneeringly asked him what teachers make. Mali’s sharp, funny, ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • The Global Achievement Gap

    Why Our Kids Don't Have the Skills They Need for College, Careers, and Citizenship -- and What We Can Do About It

    by Tony Wagner ...
    Despite the best efforts of educators, our nation's schools are dangerously obsolete. Instead of teaching students to be critical thinkers and problem-solvers, we are asking them to memorize facts for multiple choice tests. This problem isn't limited to low-income school districts: even our top schools aren't teaching or testing the skills that matter most in the global knowledge economy. Our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Gender, Schooling and Global Social Justice

    by Elaine Unterhalter ...
    Series series Foundations and Futures of Education
    Timely and original, this book examines gender equality in schooling as an aspiration of global social justice. With nearly one billion people having little or no schooling and women and girls comprising nearly two-thirds of this total, this book analyses the historical, sociological, political and philosophical issues involved as well as exploring actions taken by governments, Inter-Government ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Education

    by Louis Mazzullo ...
    Our current educational initiatives, NCLB and "Race to the Top", are competitive models that reward victory and punish defeat. In order to win the "Race to the Top" we have to hope or plan that our fellow students and teachers as well as our neighboring states and schools, will fail. "Race to the Top" therefore insures that we will be a nation of losers and that we will be pitted against our ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Trusting Teachers with School Success

    What Happens When Teachers Call the Shots

    by Kim Farris-Berg, Edward J. Dirkswager, Amy Junge ...
    Lately, our nation’s strategy for improving our schools is mostly limited to “getting tough” with teachers. Blaming teachers for poor outcomes, we spend almost all of our energy trying to control teachers’ behavior and school operations. But what if all of this is exactly the opposite of what is needed? What if teachers are the answer and not the problem? What if trusting teachers, and not ... Read more

    $42.09 USD

  • Education and Social Change

    Edited by Len Barton, Stephen Walker ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Sociology of Education
    This book, first published in 1985, argues that changes in the education system are closely bound up with wider social and political changes. It considers items within education such as developments in teacher assessment policy and changes in the control of education policy; and external items such as new directions in the management of the economy, of class relations and of the political system. ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • Getting it Right for Boys ... and Girls

    Edited by Wendy Bradford, Colin Noble ...
    Boys' underachievement is grabbing headlines in the education debate, and it has never been more important to solve the problem. This book offers clear and practical strategies to headteachers, classroom teachers and other professionals for ways to address the issue. The book looks at:*reasons for boys' underachievement*ways of adapting teaching styles to maximise learning gains for boys ... and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Schooling and Society

    Myths of Mass Education

    by Gordon Tait ...
    This new book is a wide-ranging, contemporary and accessible analysis of familiar and recurring myths about mass education in the United Kingdom. Looking at a variety of important issues and problems, each chapter begins by dispelling myths and assumptions about the classroom, going beyond class, race and gender, to offer analysis of topics such as discipline, youth cultures, information ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

  • Urban Education

    A Model for Leadership and Policy

    Edited by Karen Symms Gallagher, Rodney Goodyear, Dominic Brewer, Robert Rueda ...
    Many factors complicate the education of urban students. Among them have been issues related to population density; racial, ethnic, cultural, and linguistic diversity; poverty; racism (individual and institutional); and funding levels. Although urban educators have been addressing these issues for decades, placing them under the umbrella of "urban education" and treating them as a specific area of ... Read more

    $140.00 USD

  • Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education

    Edited by Katherine O'Flaherty, Robert Grover ...
    Series series Honors Education in Transition
    Present Successes and Future Challenges in Honors Education is the first volume in an edited series examining the proliferation of honors programs and colleges in American higher education. While honors education has become ubiquitous in American higher education, this transformation has happened without systematic attempts to align what honors means across institutions, and absent a universally ... Read more

    $23.89 USD