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  • Teaching the Taboo

    Courage and Imagination in the Classroom

    by Rick Ayers, William Ayers ...
    Rick and William Ayers renew their challenge to teachers to teach initiative, to teach imagination, to “teach the taboo” in the new edition of this bestseller. Drawing from a lifetime of deep commitment to students, teaching, and social justice, the authors update their powerful critique of schooling and present classroom stories of everyday teachers grappling with many of today’s hotly debated ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • An Empty Seat in Class

    Teaching and Learning After the Death of a Student

    by Rick Ayers ...
    The death of a student, especially to gun violence, is a life-changing experience that occurs with more and more frequency in America’s schools. For each of these tragedies, there is a classroom and there is a teacher. Yet student death is often a forbidden subject, removed from teacher education and professional development classes where the curriculum is focused instead on learning about ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • "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

  • Diving In

    Bill Ayers and the Art of Teaching into the Contradiction

    by Isabel Nuñez, Crystal T. Laura, Rick Ayers ...
    Inspired by the life and work of Bill Ayers—particularly his advice to “teach into the contradiction”—Diving In reflects the intellectual adventures that Ayers has always encouraged those around him to undertake. Written by leading educators and activists, the collected chapters within this book are as diverse as the myriad contradictions that teachers encounter in their day-to-day practice and ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

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  • Uncommon Learning

    Henry David Thoreau on Education

    by Henry David Thoreau ...
    Series series Spirit of Thoreau
    "It is only when we forget our learning that we begin to know," Thoreau wrote. Ideas about education permeate Thoreau's writing. Uncommon Learning brings those ideas together in a single volume for the first time. ... Read more

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  • We Believe You

    Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out

    by Annie E. Clark, Andrea L. Pino ...
    "Me too. It happened to me too."More than one in five women and 5 percent of men are sexually assaulted while at college. Some survivors are coming forward; others are not. In We Believe You, students from every kind of college and university—large and small, public and private, highly selective and less so—share experiences of trauma, healing, and everyday activism, representing a diversity of ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • To Teach

    The Journey, in Comics

    by William Ayers, Ryan Alexander-Tanner ...
    This graphic novel brings to life William Ayers’s bestselling memoir To Teach: The Journey of a Teacher, Third Edition. From Ayers’s early days teaching kindergarten, readers follow this renowned educational theorist on his “voyage of discovery and surprise.” We meet fellow travelers from schools across the country and watch students grow across a year and a lifetime.To Teach is a vivid, honest ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Too Hot to Handle

    A Global History of Sex Education

    by Jonathan Zimmerman ...
    The first comprehensive history of sex education around the worldToo Hot to Handle is the first truly international history of sex education. As Jonathan Zimmerman shows, the controversial subject began in the West and spread steadily around the world over the past century. As people crossed borders, however, they joined hands to block sex education from most of their classrooms. Examining key ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How College Works

    by Daniel F. Chambliss ...
    Constrained by shrinking budgets, can colleges do more to improve the quality of education? And can students get more out of college without paying higher tuition? Daniel Chambliss and Christopher Takacs conclude that limited resources need not diminish the undergraduate experience. How College Works reveals the decisive role that personal relationships play in determining a student's success, and ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Learning Outside the Classroom

    Theory and Guidelines for Practice

    by Simon Beames, Robbie Nicol, Peter Higgins ...
    Learning Outside the Classroom outlines theory and practice that will enable and encourage teachers to systematically and progressively incorporate meaningful outdoor learning opportunities into their daily teaching activities in a wide variety of environments and with diverse populations of pupils. This is the first textbook based around the curriculum for prospective and practising primary and ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Cyberbullying in Social Media within Educational Institutions

    Featuring Student, Employee, and Parent Information

    by Merle Horowitz, Dorothy M. Bollinger ...
    Cyberbullying in social media is one of the most important concerns in educational institutions at the K-12 and higher education levels today. Cyberbullying is complicated because it involves children, parents, and other family members as well as society at-large. It hurts the victim, the cyberbully, their families, their friends, others at and beyond the school, and our American society in ... Read more

    $28.19 USD

  • Teaching Crowds

    Learning and Social Media

    by Jon Dron, Terry Anderson ...
    Series series Issues in Distance Education
    Within the rapidly expanding field of educational technology, learners and educators must confront a seemingly overwhelming selection of tools designed to deliver and facilitate both online and blended learning. Many of these tools assume that learning is configured and delivered in closed contexts, through learning management systems (LMS). However, while traditional "classroom" learning is by no ... Read more

    $28.79 USD