books by Harvard Educational Pub Group     books:       Racial Inequity in Special Education Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2002 Racial inequities pervade special education in U.S. schools today. Minority children-especially African Americans-are far more likely than white children to be designated mentally retarded or emotionally disturbed and therefore in need of special education. Even when appropriately placed in special education classes, minority children often receive poorer services than disabled white children. This book explores the inequities ...             Something in Common: The Common Core Standards and the Next Chapter in American Education Robert Rothman Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2011 Something in Common is the first book to provide a detailed look at the groundbreaking Common Core State Standards and their potential to transform American education. This book tells the story of the unfolding political drama around the making of the Common Core State Standards for math and English language arts, which were adopted by 43 states and the District of Columbia over a six-month period in 2010, after decades of similar proposals had ...             Educational Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, Possibilities Frederick M. Hess Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2006 Entrepreneurship has emerged in recent years as an unprecedented and influential force in U.S. K-12 education. Yet the topic has received surprisingly little serious or systematic attention. Educational Entrepreneurship aims to fill this gap. This timely volume addresses a number of central questions: What is educational entrepreneurship and what does it look like? Who are the educational entrepreneurs and what motivates them? What tools do ...             Indigenous Knowledge And Education: Sites of Struggle, Strength, and Survivance (Harvard Educational Review) Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2008             Data Wise: A Step-by-Step Guide to Using Assessment Results to Improve Teaching And Learning Kathryn Parker Boudett Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2005 In the wake of the accountability movement, school administrators are inundated with data about their students. How can they use this information to support student achievement? This book presents a clear and carefully tested blueprint for school leaders. It shows how examining test scores and other classroom data can become a catalyst for important schoolwide conversations that will enhance schools' ability to capture teachers' knowledge, ...             Understanding Youth: Adolescent Development for Educators Michael J. Nakkula, Eric Toshalis Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2006 Adolescent development research and theory have tremendous potential to inform the work of high school teachers, counselors, and administrators. Understanding Youth bridges the gap between adolescent development theory and practice. Nakkula and Toshalis explore how factors such as social class, peer and adult relationships, gender norms, and the media help to shape adolescents sense of themselves and their future expectations and aspirations.             A Grand Bargain for Education Reform: New Rewards and Supports for New Accountability Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2009 This book offers an ambitious new system for evaluating, compensating, and providing professional development for school teachers and administrators. In this realigned system, new forms of accountability are introduced, but they go hand in hand with new rewards and access to enhanced forms of professional development to help educators succeed in their instructional tasks.             Educational Entrepreneurship: Realities, Challenges, Possibilities illustrated Edition by Hess, Frederick M. ... Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2006             Collective Bargaining in Education: Negotiating Change in Today's Schools Jane Hannaway Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2006 Collective bargaining shapes the way public schools are organized, financed, staffed, and operated. Understanding collective bargaining in education and its impact on the day-to-day life of schools is critical to designing and implementing reforms that will successfully raise student achievement. But when it comes to public discussion of school reform, teachers unions are the proverbial elephant in the room. Despite the tremendous influence of ...             A Practical Reader in Universal Design for Learning Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2006             The Transformation of Great American School Districts: How Big Cities Are Reshaping Public Education Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2008 In The Transformation of Great American School Districts, William Lowe Boyd, Charles Taylor Kerchner, and Mark Blyth argue that urban education reform can best be understood as a long process of institutional change, rather than as a series of failed projects. They examine the core assumptions that underlay the Progressive Era model of public education apolitical governance, local control, professional hierarchy, and the logic of confidence and ...             Transforming Teacher Education: Reflections from the Field David Carroll, Helen Featherstone, ... Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2007 Transforming Teacher Education offers an intimate, reflective account of the development of the renowned Team One teacher education program at Michigan State University. Over a ten-year period, Team One established a first-rate reputation as a beacon of progressive teacher education. In this book, the creators of Team One describe their ongoing efforts to nurture and sustain a teacher education program that could serve as a learning community ...             Afterschool Education: Approaches to an Emerging Field Gil G. Noam, Gina Biancarosa, ... Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2002 Afterschool education has grown in recent years into a vast and diverse enterprise. In the United States, young people spend almost a third of their organized time (including school hours) in afterschool and summer programs. Yet there is little clear and conclusive research on afterschool programs-research that would help guide the practice of existing afterschool programs and establish guidelines for the creation of new programs. This ...             New Frontiers in Formative Assessment Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2011 New Frontiers in Formative Assessment is for educators who want to tap into the power of formative assessment. It showcases ongoing work that pushes the field of formative assessment forward in key ways. Drawn from a variety of classrooms in terms of age level, subject area, and use of technology, the chapters in this book highlight the importance of context in developing effective formative assessment practices. At the same time, the volume ...             The 21St-Century Principal: Current Issues in Leadership and Policy Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2002 The 21st-Century Principal offers imaginative, thoughtful discussions of major issues confronting today's public school principals. This collection by leading thinkers in the field of education, including Richard F. Elmore, Chester E. Finn, Jr., Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, Pedro A. Noguera, Belinda Williams, and Douglas B. Reeves, aims to provoke new thinking and inspire bold action, all with an eye toward improving public schools and the ...             Diversity Challenged: Evidence on the Impact of Affirmative Action Civil Rights Project (Harvard University) Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2001 In the courts and in referenda campaigns, affirmative action in college admissions is under full-scale attack. Though it was designed to help resolve a variety of serious racial problems,affirmative action's survival may turn on just one question- whether or not the educational value of diversity is sufficiently compelling to justify consideration of race as a factor in deciding whom to admit to colleges and universities. Diversity Challenged is ...             Special Education For A New Century Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2005             The Power of Culture: Teaching Across Language Difference Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2002 The U.S. educational system and teacher education programs have not adjusted to demographic changes in the student population, including a growing number of language minority students. Mainstream teachers are expected to teach all students to high standards, but they are frequently not given the professional skills to teach students whose language and culture are different from their own. The Power of Culture: Teaching Across Language ...             Dropouts In America: Confronting The Graduation Rate Crisis Harvard Educational Pub Group, 2004              search for books 21st-century, accountability, adolescent, affirmative, afterschool, approaches, assessment, bargaining, challenged, challenges, collective, confronting, development, difference, educational, entrepreneurship, frederick, graduation, illustrated, indigenous, leadership, negotiating, possibilities, published, reflections, step-by-step, survivance, transformation, transforming, understanding books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. I have used it and love it! randomly chosen music: Haydn: Missa Brevis Sancti Joannis de Deo (Little Organ Mass), Mechanical ... home  impressum - about us