How does ethics influence the myriad ways we engage difference within educational settings?

A different approach to contemporary ethnography, embracing the idea that alternative genres may be used to express cultural experience.

Presents an innovative community approach to educational improvement.

A critical reflection on the field of feminist research in educational leadership.

A rich and honest conversation about professors' lives and the absurdity of trying to separate the personal from the professional.

Goes to the heart of the challenges facing the nation's research universities.

A critical look at urban school reform efforts.

This revised edition of the classic text explores the complexity of what learning to teach means.

Identifies gender issues affecting students, faculty, and leaders in higher education, applying critical perspectives to suggest needed change.

Using Virginia as a case study, examines the role that educational leaders play in the implementation of statewide accountability plans.

Argues that higher education needs to abandon the “culture wars” if it hopes to address the major crises of the century.

Extols the virtue of small liberal arts colleges and the liberal arts tradition.

An activist group works to bring a multicultural education program to an urban public school system.

Looks at the progress, popularity, and problems related to states linking funding of public colleges and universities to performance.

Addresses the question: How can school communities be created and sustained?

An interdisciplinary reader exploring issues related to diversity, multiculturalism, and social justice.

A step-by-step guide to qualitative research in the field of education.

Explores a particular educational reform effort, teacher preparation partnerships, with special attention to standards and assessment.

The first historical account of the free school movement of the 1960s.

One of America's foremost philosophers reflects on the discipline and its relation to everyday life.

Focuses on pre-college enrichment programs as a solution to the problem of minority and low-income student access to postsecondary education.

Offers discussion and examples of how white scholars can use anti-racist scholarship as part of the long-term civil rights struggle to create real equality in the United States.

Integrates the historical, cultural, political, and developmental considerations of the African American experience into a theory for the educational achievement of African American children.

Provides a model to help new teachers adjust to challenges faced as they begin their classroom careers.

International in scope, this is an unprecedented compilation of current theories and perspectives on women and leadership issues in schools at all levels.