Skip to main content
Search Button
United States Kobo store Gift Cards Help

Rakuten Kobo

Wishlist

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


“michael usdan”

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “michael usdan”
Skip side bar filters

  • Powerful Reforms with Shallow Roots

    Improving America's Urban Schools

    Edited by Larry Cuban, Michael Usdan ...
    Drastic reform measures are being implemented in growing numbers of urban communities as the public’s patience has finally run out with perpetually nonperforming public schools. This authoritative and eye-opening volume examines governance changes in six cities during the 1990s, where either mayoral control of schools has occurred or where noneducators have been appointed to lead school districts. ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Amazing Grace

    The Lives of Children and the Conscience of a Nation

    by Jonathan Kozol ...
    The author of Savage Inequalities, a New York Times best-seller, and Rachel and Her Children, winner of the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, tells the stories of a handful of children who have--through the love and support of their families and dedicated community leaders--not yet lost their battle with the perils of life in America's most hopeless, helpless, and dangerous neighborhoods. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • For White Folks Who Teach in the Hood... and the Rest of Y'all Too

    Reality Pedagogy and Urban Education

    by Christopher Emdin ...
    Series series Race, Education, and Democracy
    **A New York Times Best Seller"Essential reading for all adults who work with black and brown young people...Filled with exceptional intellectual sophistication and necessary wisdom for the future of education."—Imani Perry, National Book Award Winner author of South To AmericaAn award-winning educator offers a much-needed antidote to traditional top-down pedagogy and promises to radically reframe ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Battle for Room 314

    My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School

    by Ed Boland ...
    In this insightfully honest and moving memoir about the realities of teaching in an inner-city school, Ed Boland "smashes the dangerous myth of the hero-teacher [and] shows us how high the stakes are for our most vulnerable students" (Piper Kerman, author of Orange is the New Black).In a fit of idealism, Ed Boland left a twenty-year career as a non-profit executive to teach in a tough New York ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind

    Practical Strategies for Raising Achievement

    by Eric Jensen ...
    In this galvanizing follow-up to the best-selling Teaching with Poverty in Mind, renowned educator and learning expert Eric Jensen digs deeper into engagement as the key factor in the academic success of economically disadvantaged students.Drawing from research, experience, and real school success stories, Engaging Students with Poverty in Mind reveals* Smart, purposeful engagement strategies that ... Read more

    $27.89 USD

  • Minding the Achievement Gap One Classroom at a Time

    by Jane E. Pollock, Sharon M. Ford, Margaret M. Black ...
    The achievement gap is a persistent and perplexing challenge for educators. While school- and system-level reforms continue to be discussed in statehouses and district offices, individual teachers are challenged to do something now to help students who are falling short of standards, including students who are English language learners and receiving special education services.A companion to the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Fires in the Middle School Bathroom

    Advice for Teachers from Middle Schoolers

    by Kathleen Cushman, Laura Rogers ...
    The highly anticipated sequel to the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom—filled with practical, honest advice from middle school students to their teachersFollowing on the heels of the bestselling Fires in the Bathroom, which brought the insights of high school students to teachers and parents, Kathleen Cushman now turns her attention to the crucial and challenging middle grades, joining forces with ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Bridge to Brilliance

    How One Woman and One Community Are Inspiring the World

    by Rebecca Paley, Nadia Lopez ...
    Be inspired by the magnetic young principal who “stands on the front line of the fight to educate America's children." (Brandon Stanton, author of Humans of New York ) and the book that Essence calls "Essential reading."In 2010, Nadia Lopez started her middle-grade public school, Mott Hall Bridges Academy, in one of America’s poorest communities, in a record heat wave—and crime wave. Everything ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • Big-City School Reforms

    Lessons from New York, Toronto, and London

    by Michael Fullan, Alan Boyle ...
    Big cities have struggled to improve public school systems. This book shows why—and offers a framework for achieving future success. Fullan and Boyle, internationally renowned thinkers on school change, demonstrate that while the educational challenges of big cities may be overwhelming, they are not insurmountable. They draw on ten years’ of research to identify six essential “push” and “pull” ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Ms. Moffett's First Year

    Becoming a Teacher in America

    by Abby Goodnough ...
    In summer of 2000, legal secretary Donna Moffett answered an ad for the New York City Teaching Fellows program, which sought to recruit "talented professionals" from other fields to teach in some of the city's worst schools. Seven weeks later she was in a first grade classroom in Flatbush, Brooklyn, nearly completely unprepared for what she was about to face.New York Times education reporter Abby ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Our School

    Searching for Community in the Era of Choice

    by Sam Chaltain ...
    Almost every major American city is experimenting with school choice—a deeply controversial idea that is dramatically reshaping public education. Will the wider array of school options help parents and educators identify better strategies for helping all children learn? Or will the high stakes of the marketplace end up privatizing this most public of institutions? Education activist Sam Chaltain ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Creating the Opportunity to Learn

    Moving from Research to Practice to Close the Achievement Gap

    by A. Wade Boykin, Pedro Noguera ...
    "Unless we believe that those who have more are inherently superior to those who have less, we should be troubled by the fact that patterns of achievement are often fairly predictable, particularly with respect to students' race and class."In Creating the Opportunity to Learn, Wade Boykin and Pedro Noguera help navigate the turbid waters of evidence-based methodologies and chart a course toward ... Read more

    $29.59 USD