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1	Teaching with Love and Logic: Taking Control of the Classroom more books like this by Jim Fay, David Funk add to wishlist Jim Fay and David Funk's truly positive approach and time-tested ideas and strategies will empower teachers to effectively manage classroom dynamics while bringing the joy back to teaching. see all copies from $8.44! new only from $13.22! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need--And What We Can Do about It more books like this by Tony Wagner add to wishlist Despite the best efforts of educators, our nations 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 isnt limited to low-income school districts: even our top schools arent teaching or testing the skills that ... see all copies from $14.61! new only from $14.61! \| SVS
3	The Manufactured Crisis: Myths, Fraud, and the Attack on America's Public Schools more books like this by David C Berliner, Bruce J Biddle add to wishlist The Manufactured Crisis debunks the myths that test scores in Americas schools are falling, that illiteracy is rising, and that better funding has no benefit. It shares the good news about public education. Disputing conventional wisdom, this book ignited debate in Newsweek, The New York Times, and the entire teaching profession. Winner of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Weapons of Mass Instruction: A Schoolteacher's Journey Through the Dark World of Compulsory Schooling more books like this by John Taylor Gatto add to wishlist This book focuses on mechanisms of familiar schooling that cripple imagination, discourage critical thinking, and create a false view of learning as a by-product of rote-memorisation drills. Gatto's earlier book, "Dumbing Us Down", put that now-famous expression of the title into common use worldwide. This book promises to add another chilling ... see all copies from $14.99! new only from $15.95! \| SVS
5	The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards" more books like this by Alfie Kohn add to wishlist Author Alfie Kohn discusses why standardized testing is a dangerous practice--instead of helping students become active thinkers, the tests make students "walking repositories of knowledge;" they merely memorize and answer questions by rote. He also posits that standardized testing does not prepare students for the real world, nor does it allow ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Policy Studies for Educational Leaders: An Introduction more books like this by Frances C Fowler add to wishlist Written by a leading name in the field of educational policy, the third edition of Policy Studies for Educational Leaders once again encourages future educational leaders to be proactive rather than reactive, and equips them with an understanding of educational policy and the important political theories upon which policy is based. Coverage not ... see all copies from $8.95! new only from $45.93! \| SVS
7	Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America's Schools Back to Reality more books like this by Sir Charles Murray add to wishlist The controversial author of "The Bell Curve" returns with a groundbreaking manifesto to transform American education. He presents the four simple truths that parents and educators should confront to precipitate change. see all copies from $3.74! new only from $9.00! \| SVS
8	The Power of Their Ideas: Lessons for America from a Small School in Harlem more books like this by Deborah Meier add to wishlist The author writes about the success story of the school she founded in East Harlem from which 90 percent of the students graduate and go on to college. Meier shares her thoughts on why public education is vital to the future of America and its kids. She argues for radical innovation and is a proponent of breaking up huge schools into small schools ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.71! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Getting Started more books like this by Robert Eaker, Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.82! \| SVS
10	The Knowledge Deficit: Closing the Shocking Education Gap for American Children more books like this by E D Hirsch, Jr. add to wishlist An insightful thinker on what schools teach shows why American students are losing the global education race and performing worse than students in other industrialized countries. see all copies from $2.66! new only from $2.96! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Tinkering Toward Utopia: A Century of Public School Reform more books like this by David B Tyack, Larry Cuban add to wishlist The aim of this book is to document the dynamic tension between Americans' faith in education as a panacea, and the moderate pace of change in educational practices. see all copies from $11.17! new only from $25.93! \| SVS
12 view cover	The Schools We Need: And Why We Don't Have Them more books like this by E D Hirsch, Jr. add to wishlist Hirsch argues that in eschewing content-based curricula for abstract--and disproved--theories of cognitive development, the educational establishment has done irreparable harm to America's students, and instead of preparing them for the country's highly competitive information-based economy, the process-oriented curricula the establishment ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $9.02! \| SVS
13 view cover	National Science Education Standards more books like this by National Committee on Science Education Standards and Assessment, National Research Council add to wishlist Americans agree that our students urgently need better science education. But what should they be expected to know and be able to do? And can the same expectations be applied across our diverse society? These and other fundamental issues are addressed in "National Science Education Standards" - a landmark development effort that reflects the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $14.52! \| SVS
14 view cover	Young, Gifted, and Black: Promoting High Achievement Among African-American Students more books like this by Theresa Perry, Professor Asa G Hilliard, III, Claude Steele add to wishlist Three African-American intellectuals on a crucial educational issue of our time A huge portion of the school reform debate in America--explicitly and implicitly--is framed around the success and failure of African-American children in school. The test-score "achievement gap" between white and black students, especially, is a driving and divisive ... see all copies from $4.07! new only from $9.76! \| SVS
15 view cover	One Day, All Children...: The Unlikely Triumph of Teach for America and What I Learned Along the Way more books like this by Wendy Kopp add to wishlist The founder of the Teach for American program (a nonprofit organization which recruits top college graduates to work in needy U.S. school districts) shares her opinions on how underperforming and underprivileged children should be educated. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Revisiting Professional Learning Communities at Work: New Insights for Improving Schools more books like this by Richard DuFour, Rebecca DuFour, Robert Eaker add to wishlist Celebrating its tenth anniversary, this sequel to "Professional Learning Communities at Work" offers new insight on the collaborative work that drives PLCs and the challenges of deep implementation. see all copies from $16.50! new only from $18.45! \| SVS
17 view cover	Developing and Administering a Child Care Education Program more books like this by Dorothy June Sciarra, Anne G Dorsey add to wishlist Developing and Administering a Child Care and Education Program, 6th Edition serves as a clear guide for new and experienced directors and emphasizes the directoras responsibility for being both a program maintenance and a people maintenance leader. In keeping with the current movement to standards-based programs, the text guides directors to ... see all copies from $21.75! new only from $95.88!
18 view cover	The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation more books like this by Robert Evans add to wishlist In this insightful look at school reform, Robert Evans examines the real-life hurdles to implementing innovation and explains how the best-intended efforts can be stalled by educators who too often feel burdened and conflicted by the change process. He provides a new model of leadership along with practical management strategies for building a ... see all copies from $9.90! new only from $25.42! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Wall of Fame: One Teacher, One Class, and the Power to Save Schools and Transform Lives more books like this by Jonathan Freedman add to wishlist As public education declined and many Americans despaired of their children's future, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jonathan Freedman volunteered as a writing mentor in some of California's toughest innercity schools. He discovered a program called AVID that gave him hope. In this work of creative non-fiction, Mr. Freedman interweaves the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
20 view cover	Because Teaching Matters more books like this by Marleen C Pugach add to wishlist The concept of making choices as a teacher and taking responsibility for the consequences of those choices is a central theme of this book. It is organized around five professional commitments that, taken together, are essential if teaching is going to make a difference in the lives of students. This innovative organizing structure uses the five ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $71.64!
21 view cover	Teaching as a Subversive Activity more books like this by Postman N Postman, Neil Postman add to wishlist see all copies from $3.08! new only from $8.04! \| SVS
22 view cover	The New Meaning of Educational Change more books like this by Michael G Fullan add to wishlist Over the last 30 years there have been numerous attempts at planned educational change. It is widely accepted that the benefits have not equalled the cost, and all too often the situation has seemed to worsen. In this book, Michael Fullan distils from these experiences the most powerful lessons about how to cope with, and influence, educational ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.34! \| first editions \| SVS
23 view cover	Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect more books like this by David W Orr add to wishlist The author argues that much of what has gone wrong with the world is the result of inadequate and misdirected education that alienates us from life in the name of human domination, overemphasizes success and careers, and deadens our sense of wonder at the world. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.99! \| SVS
24 view cover	Learning Power: Organizing for Education and Justice more books like this by Jeannie Oakes, John Rogers, Martin Lipton add to wishlist In cities across the nation, low-income African American and Latino parents hope that their children's education will bring a better life. But their schools, typically, are overcrowded, ill equipped, and shamefully under-staffed. Unless things change dramatically, more than half the students will never graduate and many will face a life of poverty ... see all copies from $8.80! new only from $14.95! \| SVS
25 view cover	Cultivating Humanity: A Classical Defense of Reform in Liberal Education more books like this by Martha Craven Nussbaum add to wishlist How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers and searchers for the truth that transcends the boundaries of class, gender and nation? In this book the author argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. Nussbaum's ... see all copies from $5.38! new only from $17.71! \| first editions

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