Education
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
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
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
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
An in-depth look at the creative writing practices of nine Chicago youths.
College Life through the Eyes of Students
Presents the perspectives of contemporary college students on their lives and educations.
Literacy with an Attitude, Second Edition
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
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
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
Examines the social and educational experiences of Mexicans and Hispanos in Colorado from 1920 to 1960.