Shares perspectives from twelve successful women school superintendents.

This in-depth look at a diverse group of young women at an alternative high school illuminates issues of race, class, gender, and identity formation, and shows the enormous power of schools to re-orient young women from school failure to success.

Offers surprising insights into the complex worlds of women principals.

Challenges the ways "lesbian academics" have been socially constructed.

Reviews the history and philosophy of a classic approach to teaching, while emphasizing its continuing relevance for contemporary schooling.

Examines Professional Development Schools, or "teaching schools," and the myriad complex issues, from policy to personnel, that surround their operation.

Provides insights into an uncharted territory in the educational environment of schools--the teachers' lounge.

Illustrates how Marcuse's theory sheds new light on current debates in both education and society involving issues of multiculturalism, postmodernism, civic education, the "culture wars," critical thinking, and critical literacy.

Presents current research and theoretical perspectives on the challenges facing educators in U. S. urban schools.

Blends vivid personal accounts and sophisticated theoretical analysis to make a compelling book about one teacher's experience teaching on an Athabascan Indian Reservation in Alaska.

This book provides the basis for thoughtful reflection and discussion of school accountability by critically examining Kentucky's groundbreaking educational reform strategy of statewide student assessment and teacher accountability.

An examination of educational reform and change throughout the world, focusing on how issues of power and governance within states affect school practice and policy-making.

Presents a comprehensive analysis of the debates surrounding sexuality education in the schools and examines their implications for the content of educational programs.

Explores how and why Jewish identity varies in different locations around the world and examines the implications of these variations for Jewish education.

Rather than simply lamenting that there is never enough time in the school day, this book looks at the dimensions of time as a significant factor in the success and failure of many of today’s school reform efforts.

With emphasis on preparing students for jobs, standards, and achievement testing, many think that North American education has become inwardly deadening, yet this book provides a counterbalance as it offers a way to nurture the soul in classrooms and schools.

Examines performance art and the powerful implications it holds for teaching in the schools.

Questions whether, and how, community colleges confront the challenges of diversity and provide real opportunities for upward mobility.

Studies values and their influences in educational leadership.

Drawing on the works of Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin, the author explores the roles that dialogue, laughter, and spontaneity play in the education of the whole person.

Explains why powerful educational innovations like "cooperative learning" do not always reach their full potential in everyday classrooms.

Offers practical advice and research results on women school superintendents, a field traditionally dominated by men.

A leading theorist addresses a wide spectrum of topics central to the field of environmental philosophy.

African American university and college presidents, vice presidents, and deans offer firsthand reflections on their encounters with racism in higher education and the strategies they use to overcome obstacles they face.

Resolves the fundamental debate between cognitivists and social constructionists concerning the metaphysics of human psychology, and offers new insights into therapy, education, and creativity.