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In this volume, eight leading Japanese scholars present their research on profound and sensitive issues facing Japanese society, much of which has not been available to the English-speaking world. The text examines such topics as education policy changes, the education of minorities, the hegemony of college entrance examinations, social mobility, and basic human rights.

Tells the story of the Academic Talent Development Program (ATDP) at UC Berkeley, an example of a self-supporting summer program that shifted from ""mining"" to ""growing"" talent. This book provides an insider's view of the teachers, students, curriculum, and school culture as a model for creating academic enrichments programs in and out of school.

We live in a climate of vigorous testing and memorization, so how can we both engage and challenge our children to learn and become thinking citizens in our society? This book provides classroom strategies that enable and empower students to grasp the 'big ideas' across virtually all curriculum areas and apply this knowledge to problem solving.

Offers an examination of education policy initiatives as framed by the rhetoric of the political Right and the political Left. Critical of both sides, this work provides a searching look at the Right and shows why it has succeeded so well in winning the debate about the purposes and possibilities of education.

Tackles the impact of race and culture on teaching and learning. This book places focus on the connections among teacher quality, teacher preparation, and the achievement gap for African Americans and other children of color. It addresses ways that teachers can assess and enhance their own racial and cultural competence.

A work on caring and educating infants and toddlers. It uses case studies and research to show educators how to transform curricula for very young children into a dynamic, responsive experience. It includes a focus on play, attention to the physical and social environments, and advice for accommodating children with different developmental levels.

Examines one of the challenging issues for new teachers - how to teach a diverse student population. This book offers descriptions of the issues white student teachers confront as they teach in urban settings and provides insight to help strengthen relationships between racially, socioeconomically, and culturally dissimilar students and teachers.

Students of educational improvement have long puzzled over why some school reform ideas blossom while others wither away. Based on an investigation by the Consortium for Policy Research in Education (CPRE), this volume looks at what actually happens when externally designed reforms enter into school environments.

Demonstrates how culturally responsive teaching can make learning intresting. Drawing on his experience as a fifth-grade teacher in a multiethnic school where children spoke over 14 different home languages, the author reveals how he created a language arts curriculum from the students' own cultural resources, narratives, and identities.

With federal and local demands for increased accountability, educators are expected to acquire the necessary skills and knowledge to be effective data users and decision makers. This book explores how educators actually use data and technology tools to achieve lasting improvement in student performance.

In this second edition of her educational text, Noddings suggests that if we make the responsiveness characteristic of caring more basic than accountability, we can accommodate both traditional and progressive preferences in one school system to the benefit of all... especially the children.

Introduces a framework for the response to intervention initiative. This book is useful to teachers, principals, administrators, policymakers, and people interested in creating schools where all students learn to read. It outlines the key factors essential for effective reform of early literacy programs.

This book champions the arts as essential to the K-12 educative process. Exploring apparently oppositional approaches to the arts and their role in education, it provides both an overview of arts learning in and out of school as well as a set of ""artful"" lenses through which to regard non-arts teaching and learning.

This curriculum reference will enable teachers to apply multiple intelligence theory in the classroom using curriculum material devised by Howard Gardner, David Feldman and their colleagues at Harvard's Project Zero.

Presents the way to a different kind of advocacy: one that stops justifying the arts as useful to learning other subjects, and argues instead for the powerful lessons that the arts, like no other subject, teach our kids. This book offers a set of principles and tools that aim to secure a strong place for the arts in education.

Explains why US citizens need to be ""scientifically literate"" and, therefore, why our schools must teach the fundamental principles of scientific literacy to students. This book tackles the topics of ""scientific literacy"" and explains how to teach them. It confronts headline issues, including stem cell research, global warming, and cloning.

Special 2018 Edition with a new introduction by Michelle Fine. Greene argues that freedom must be achieved through continuing resistance to the forces that limit, condition, determine, and-too frequently-oppress.

Shows how to create meaningful, intellectually stimulating programs of literary study that are developmentally appropriate for students' needs, interests, and experiences. This book provides a theoretically based model for creating developmentally appropriate literary study programs for elementary schools.

Describes a professional development model for principals. This book examines how to develop and manage collaborative inquiry with principals, the facilitator's role in guiding inquiry, and outcomes that can be expected. It also includes case studies that demonstrate how the program can benefit principals, schools, teachers, and students.

A collection of letters from top education experts, elected officials, business and community leaders, teachers, principals, students, and parents.

Raising children in the 21st Century is both parenting in the worst of times and parenting in the best of times. This resource is intended for navigating the challenges and opportunities that families face. It shows parents how to help their children reach their full potential through the power of positive parenting.

Offers a framework to help teachers understand the emotional lives of the young children they serve. This work: incorporates important understandings gained since the tragic events of 9/11; and addresses many of the challenging issues that confront educators in the high-pressure climate focused on academic performance.

Presents a review of formative assessment in the classroom. This book examines what is known about formative assessment and its application to teaching.

Improvisation is recognized as an exciting tool to jump-start learning. This book shows teachers how to use improvisation throughout the K-8 curriculum to boost creativity and to develop a class into a finely-tuned learning ensemble. It also shows how to use this revolutionary tool to teach literacy, math, social studies, and science.

Uses case studies to explore important issues, such as students' feelings of connection to their school; gender and schooling; parents' experiences dealing with ""the system""; high-stakes testing; and technology use at home.

Details how schools and diverse families throughout the country have formed partnerships that support and enhance student learning.

A guide that provides teachers with a method for documenting young children's work at school. It shows principals, curriculum coordinators, and directors of Head Start and other early intervention programs how to develop children's portfolios to share with parents or to use for assessment and other accountability purposes.