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Deweyan Inquiry

Presents John Dewey’s theory of inquiry and applies it to various areas of the primary, middle, and secondary school curricula.

The Rising State

Examines how federal and state governments have assumed ever-greater control over the education process since the 1960s.

Between Speaking and Silence

By Mary M. Reda
Subjects: Education

Explores the question of student silence from students’ perspectives and challenges the conventional wisdom about silent students.

Non-discursive Rhetoric

Examines the role of image and affect in teaching with new digital technologies and multimedia composition.

Writing-Based Teaching

Edited by Teresa Vilardi & Mary K. Chang
Subjects: Education

Offers candid, first-hand accounts of what it is like to make writing central to teaching in secondary schools and colleges.

The Practice of School Reform

By James Nehring
Foreword by Larry Cuban
Subjects: Education

Provides practical advice for educators struggling for change.

African Americans and Community Engagement in Higher Education

Looks at town-gown relationships with a focus on African Americans.

A Measure of Failure

Asks how and why standardized tests have become the ubiquitous standard by which educational achievement and intelligence are measured.

Democracy as Culture

Explores the significance of Dewey’s thought on democracy for the contemporary world.

Jimmy Carter as Educational Policymaker

Analyzes educational reform in the second half of the twentieth century through the political career of Jimmy Carter and his influence on educational policy.

Feel These Words

By Susan Weinstein
Subjects: Education

An in-depth look at the creative writing practices of nine Chicago youths.

College Life through the Eyes of Students

By Mary Grigsby
Subjects: Sociology

Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations.

Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition

By Patrick J. Finn
Subjects: Education

A comprehensive update of the classic study that delivers both a passionate plea and strategies for teachers, parents, and community organizers to give working-class children the same type of empowering education and powerful literacy skills that the children of upper- and middle-class people receive.

Breaking into the All-Male Club

Women professors of educational administration share their personal stories of being female firsts.

Improving Urban Middle Schools

A look at Nativity schools, alternative middle schools that have had great success educating at-risk, urban students.

When the Pot Boils

By David A. Paul
Subjects: Education

Tells the story of the decline and near bankruptcy of a major American university, and how its dramatic turnaround was quickly achieved.

The War That Wasn't

By Benjamin Justice
Subjects: History

An ambitious and timely look at the role of religion in New York State's early public schools.

A Buddhist in the Classroom

A Buddhist perspective on classroom teaching.

Resilience

First collection of essays by queer scholars with working-class backgrounds.

The Living Classroom

Describes the emergence of powerful fields of consciousness that influence students’ learning and personal transformation.

Teaching Nonmajors

Delivers uncomplicated and useful techniques for better teaching to nonmajors in liberal arts courses.

Thought Knows No Sex

Grounded in student experiences at nineteenth-century Alfred University, this social history explores the origins of women’s higher education and the rural roots of reform.

Olympic Industry Resistance

A critical look at the Olympics in the postbribery, post-9/11 era, particularly at consequences for host cities and so-called “Olympic education” for schoolchildren.

Counternarratives

Relying on local, self, and historical studies, the author argues for better—not best—practices in teaching and teacher education.

Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado Schools and Communities, 1920-1960

By Rubén Donato
Subjects: Education

Examines the social and educational experiences of Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado from 1920 to 1960.