Multiracial Equity in American Education
Edited by Dorinda J. Carter, Stella M. Flores, and Richard J. Reddick
Legacies of Brown illuminates the effects of segregation, desegregation, and integration on students, practitioners, communities, and policymakers in the fifty years since the landmark Brown v. Board of Education ruling.
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Frederick M. Hess
In Letters to a Young Education Reformer, Frederick M. Hess distills knowledge from twenty-five years of working in and around school reform. Inspired by his conversations with young, would-be reformers who are passionate about transforming education, the book offers a window into Hess’s thinking about what education reform is and should be.
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Pedagogy and Politics of Bilingualism
Edited by Zeynep F. Beykont
The essays in Lifting Every Voice illuminate the challenges and joys of educating students from a variety of ethnic, linguistic, and academic backgrounds.
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Teach Students to Ask Their Own Questions
Dan Rothstein and Luz Santana, Foreword by Wendy D. Puriefoy
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The authors of Make Just One Change argue that formulating one’s own questions is “the single most essential skill for learning”—and one that should be taught to all students.
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Understanding and Engaging Student Resistance in School
Eric Toshalis
In this groundbreaking book, Eric Toshalis explores student resistance through a variety of perspectives, arguing that oppositional behaviors can be not only instructive but productive. All too often treated as a matter of compliance, student resistance can also be understood as a form of engagement, as young people confront and negotiate new identities in the classroom environment. The focus of teachers’ efforts, Toshalis says, should not be about “managing” adolescents but about learning how to read their behavior and respond to it in developmentally productive, culturally responsive, and democratically enriching ways.
Noting that the research literature is scattered across fields, Toshalis draws on four domains of inquiry: theoretical, psychological, political, and pedagogical. The result is a resource that can help teachers address this pervasive classroom challenge in ways that enhance student agency, motivation, engagement, and academic achievement.
The coauthor of Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators (Harvard Education Press, 2006), Toshalis blends accessible explanations of theory and research with vignettes of interactions among educators and students. In Make Me!, Toshalis helps teachers perceive possibility, rather than pathology, in student resistance.
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Citizenship Education for a New Generation
Edited by David E. Campbell, Meira Levinson, and Frederick M. Hess
“By nearly every measure, Americans are less engaged in their communities and political activity than generations past.” So write the editors of this volume, who survey the current practices and history of citizenship education in the United States.
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Helping Students Create Their Own Career and Life Goals
V. Scott H. Solberg
Counseling expert V. Scott H. Solberg introduces a new paradigm and framework for career development focused on teaching skills that all students need to set long-term goals and experience post-secondary success. Based on nearly a decade of research and technical assistance in schools, the book shows how educators can leverage the use of individual learning plans (ILPs) to help students identify their interests and create their own career pathways using resources inside and outside of school.
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Cases in Public Education Leadership
Edited by Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson
Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement.
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Edited by Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen Grossman, and Susan Moore Johnson
This companion volume to Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership includes detailed teaching notes on each case in the coursebook, with an emphasis on making cases drawn from other disciplines relevant to education administrators. Both experienced instructors and those new to the case method will find this instructor's guide an invaluable resource.
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Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School
By Michael Bitz, Foreword by Françoise Mouly
Based on a four-year study, Manga High explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City’s largest high schools.
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