Contains narratives of the experiences of teachers using the testimonial of Rigoberta Menchu, a Guatemalan Indian woman who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1992. Includes background essays on Menchu and the role of her story in political correctness debates.

Presents a critical, Neo-Marxist philosophy of education.

The authors discuss the dilemmas that face those who would educate tomorrow's valuable citizens and describe the day-to-day commitment needed to maintain a community. Important questions are asked: How ...

Provides a rare look at how successive waves of educational reforms have interacted within a single school district.

Winner of the 1998 American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Titles

Focusing on the cultural history of the origins of outcome-based education (OBE), this book investigates the social and ...

Few school superintendents in the United States are women, although many women have leadership positions in schools. This book is a feminist poststructuralist account of women aspiring to the superintendency in K-12 public school systems in the United States. It deals with issues of power, gender, and leadership and provides a framework for understanding the contemporary context of the superintendency.

Explores how teachers think about students of color and/or a multicultural curriculum and presents opportunities for reconstructing teacher knowledge of the cultural context.

Examines in close detail public schools' relationships with their parents and communities.

The survival of planet Earth's nourishing life systems ultimately depends on how we humans think about them. Unfortunately, our culture's assumptions about the way the world works ignore recent scientific ...

Looks at the ways in which social structures and relationships within schools define, enable, or constrain an ethic of caring, especially for historically marginalized groups of students.

This book examines ways in which school structures can change to increase parental involvement.

Since the beginning of the school reform movement in the early 1980's, various efforts have been made to improve teacher evaluation. Most of the initial efforts were designed to promote greater accountability. ...

Explores social factors that lead to academic success for low-income Chicanos.

This interpretive history and critique of educational philosophy offers a reexamination and reconstruction of John Dewey's vision.

Based on the study of successful cases in several countries, this book shows what it takes to put activity-based science programs into practice in elementary schools.

This book provides middle school teachers with a firm pedagogical foundation based on the manner in which students learn the mathematics being taught.

This anthology summarizes and critiques the current knowledge base in the field of educational administration.

Today new ways of thinking about learning call for new ways for monitoring learning. Reform in School Mathematics builds from the vision that assessment can become the bridge for instructional activity, ...

This story of a teacher's growth as a researcher in the classroom reflects the larger issues of the debate about this kind of research during the last decade.

This book shows how the labeling of children as "at-risk" actually perpetuates the inequities, racism, and discrimination facing many families in America.

This book reports the results of a series of studies of effective school district leadership

This book is about the development of teachers'professional knowledge.

This is a fascinating, and disturbing, story of an urban high school's struggle to survive in the post-integration era of educational reform.

This book presents a series of related empirical studies about the thinking and problem solving processes of expert educational leaders. It describes the nature of expert thinking and provides substantial ...

This is a book about the usual teacher-student relationship in composition courses. It disrupts and rewrites the commonplace conception of the relationship by revealing the uneven ways in which power ...