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The Right to Learn: A Blueprint for for Creating Schools that Work 5 reviews
Linda Darling-Hammond
Jossey-Bass, 2001
This Is The Tree Falling In The Forest. Do You Hear It?
+ Legislators, Please Read this Book!!!
+ It's About Equity!
+ Darling-Hammond offers solutions worth considering.
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Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect 11 reviews
David W. Orr
Island Press, 2004
a great book in all respects
+ Good primer for environmental advocates
+ Earth in Mind: On Education, Environment, and the Human Prospect
+ Everyone should read this book!
+ The Inclusion of Ecology Studies Needed In All Education
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School Reform From The Inside Out: Policy, Practice, And Performance
Richard F. Elmore
Harvard Educational Review, 2004
"Giving test results to an incoherent, badly run school doesn't automatically make it a better school. The work of turning a school around entails improving the knowledge and skills of teachers-changing their knowledge of content and how to teach it-and helping them to understand where their students are in their academic development. Low-performing schools, and the people who work in them, don't ...
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Teaching As a Subversive Activity 12 reviews
Neil Postman, Charles Weingartner
Delta, 1971
The beginning of Education Reform
+ Required Reading
+ Teaching As a Subversive Activity
40 years since Postman declared the need for reformed education and our school systems still look the same today as it did then. A new age is still growing for the next age of education.
This is the most excellent book on the nature of teaching and educating I have yet read. Postman articulates ...
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The Schools Our Children Deserve: Moving Beyond Traditional Classrooms and "Tougher Standards"29 reviews
Alfie Kohn
Mariner Books, 2000
Nancy Haas, Educational Tech. Doctorial Student , Pepperdine
+ The Other Side of No Child Left Behind (or untested)
+ Standardized Testing Revealed
In light of President Bush's recent signing of a national educational plan that promotes standards and high-stakes testing, The Schools Our Children Deserve offers readers insights into social, economic, and moral consequences of these policies. An easy read with plenty of data and thought ...
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Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work (Book & CD-ROM) 7 reviews
Richard Dufour, Rebecc DuFour, ...
Solution Tree, 2006
Great Resource for PLCs
+ Creating a common language...
+ For Management
+ Learning by Doing
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Strategies That Work: Teaching Comprehension for Understanding and Engagement36 reviews
Stephanie Harvey, Anne Goudvis
Stenhouse Publishers, 2007
great for english language arts teachers
+ Engaging Children Through Understanding What They Read
+ Strategies That Work
+ Excellent comprehension lessons
+ The Best book for the classroom
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Why Don't They Learn English: Separating Fact from Fallacy in the U.S. Language Debate (Language and Literacy ...4 reviews
Lucy Tse
Teachers College Press, 2001
Fuel to fight the English Only people
+ Meaningful!
+ This is a great book.
+ great resource and information
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The Human Side of School Change: Reform, Resistance, and the Real-Life Problems of Innovation (Jossey-Bass ...8 reviews
Robert Evans
Jossey-Bass, 2001
The Real Side of School Change
+ Being reminded that people ARE the change
+ Down to the human dimensions of change
+ "Every School Leader should Read this Book!"
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American Schools: The 100 Billion Dollar Challenge2 reviews
William H. Cosby, Dwight Allen
Grand Central Publishing, 2000
An answer to the plight of our school system
Drs. Allen and Cosby have written a magnificent book detailing a workable answer to our school system plight. Now it is up to us to take the challenge. Do we understand how important is it to truly educate our youth? Are we ready to take the challenge or are we just going to say yes its nice, or ...
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The Unschooled Mind: How Children Think And How Schools Should Teach8 reviews
Howard Gardner
Basic Books, 1993
Howard Gardner is a brilliant man!!
+ Every educator must read
+ Using Unschooled Minds in the Special-Needs classroom
I read this book a few years ago as part of a course in my Master's degree program. I had some familiarity with Gardner's work, mainly the seven intelligences. However, until an educator has read this book, the educator can not apply the seven intelligences in the class room or teach effectively. ...
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The Myth of Laziness33 reviews
Mel Levine
Simon & Schuster, 2003
Demystifying the "Lazy" Child
+ Fantastic book
+ The Myth of Laziness
+ Great resource for student with poor written output
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Policy Studies for Educational Leaders: An Introduction (2nd Edition)4 reviews
Frances C. Fowler
Prentice Hall, 2003
Fowler surfs the waves of educational public policy!
+ Education and Policy: Finally a cohesive device
+ Good book and service!
+ Educational Leaders
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools147 reviews
Jonathan Kozol
Harper Perennial, 1992
a very important book
+ Another great book by Jonathan Kozol
+ Great Book!
+ Must Read
+ Eye opening
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Transforming Schools: Creating a Culture of Continuous Improvement1 review
Allison Zmuda, Robert Kuklis, ...
Association for Supervision & Curriculum Deve, 2004
Professional Development tool
This text aids one in figuring out how to reform or transform one's school culture. It is not a set of prescribed rules but rather guidelines on what to do and how to do it. I really enjoyed the sections wherein the authors created a fictional dialogue to convey their worldly application of the ...
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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World's Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom14 reviews
James W. Stigler, James Hiebert
Free Press, 1999
Do The Easy Things First!
+ This is how it should be done.
+ It may not be correct, but...
+ Interesting for a Education Student
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School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Second Edition1 review
Joyce L. Epstein, Mavis G. Sanders, ...
Corwin Press, 2002
School, Family, and Community Partnerships: Your Handbook for Action, Second Edition
This book was purchased for a class but will be extremely beneficial in my present role as a Career Development Coordinator.
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America's Public Schools: From the Common School to "No Child Left Behind" (The American Moment) 1 review
William J. Reese
The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005
No change
This book's main point is that public schools have always been critiqued by society. This book might be a good read for public school employees.
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Turning Points 2000: Educating Adolescents in the 21st Century1 review
Anthony W. Jackson, Gayle Andrews Davis, ...
Teachers College Press, 2000
A new perspective for educators
This book is filled with information regarding the restructuring of schools, which is a hot topic in current society. There is a wealth of ideas and procedures, sure to assist any administrator or educator who is interested in revising and aligning current practices and curriculum.
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The Trivium: The Liberal Arts of Logic, Grammar, and Rhetoric20 reviews
Sister Miriam Joseph, Marguerite McGlinn
Paul Dry Books, 2002
Trivium Review
+ "Mere accumulation of facts does not constitute education"
+ The Trivium
+ Rigorous but enjoyable
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