"It's Being Done"
Academic Success in Unexpected Schools

By Karin Chenoweth

This straightforward and inspiring book takes readers into schools where educators believe—and prove—that all children, even those considered “hard-to-teach,” can learn to high standards.

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A Decade of Urban School Reform
Persistence and Progress in the Boston Public Schools

Edited by S. Paul Reville with Celine Coggins

A Decade of Urban School Reform looks at this critical era in the Boston schools and distills valuable insights and lessons for school leaders and reformers everywhere.

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A Nation Reformed?
American Education Twenty Years after A Nation at Risk

Edited by David T. Gordon with a foreward by Patricia Albjerg Graham

A Nation Reformed? takes stock of twenty years of school reform. Was the nation really ever "at risk" and, if so, is it still? Which reforms have made a difference and which haven't? And where do we go from here?

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A Practical Reader in Universal Design for Learning

Edited by David H. Rose and Anne Meyer

In this first UDL Reader, Anne Meyer and David H. Rose bring together a collection of articles on the practical, classroom dimensions of the UDL revolution in education.

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A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom?
Appraising Old Answers and New Ideas

Edited by Frederick M. Hess, Andrew J. Rotherham, and Kate Walsh

A Qualified Teacher in Every Classroom? lays out new approaches for ensuring high-quality teacher preparation while offering a candid assessment of the obstacles that may impede the implementation of such new models.

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Acts of Inquiry in Qualitative Research

Edited by Bárbara M. Brizuela, Julie Pearson Stewart, Romina G. Carrillo, and Jennifer Garvey Berger

In this volume, researchers, practitioners, participants, and scholars address the proliferation of methodologies, ethical and disciplinary concerns, and issues of equity and diversity such research raises from a wide variety of viewpoints.

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Adolescent Literacy
A Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review

The Harvard Educational Review Special Issue on Adolescent Literacy examines key issues and debates in the adolescent literacy crisis in an effort to move toward consensus around future research agendas and best practices. Available March 2008.

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Adolescents at School
Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education

Edited by Michael Sadowski

Adolescents at School provides a glimpse into the complex "identities" adolescents negotiate as they manage the challenges of school.

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Afterschool Education
Approaches to an Emerging Field

By Gil G. Noam, Gina Biancarosa, and Nadine Dechausay

The authors survey the current afterschool landscape and bring to light important issues and practices within the field, explore the challenges and opportunities facing afterschool education programs, and point to future directions for these burgeoning educational ventures.

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Assessing NCLB
Perspectives and Prescriptions

Edited by Sara Schwartz Chrismer, Shannon T. Hodge, and Debby Saintil

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