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Lack of access to affordable high quality child care is frequently the tipping point that catapults a family into poverty, joblessness, and homelessness. This work presents an account of the lived realities of the child care crisis, and a critique of public policy that points to the United States as an outlier in the international community.

Offers information for leaders in preschool settings and pre-kindergarten classrooms. This work covers various aspects of literacy learning and teaching, including child development, standards, curriculum planning, assessment and accountability, professional development, and home - school connections.

Examines how literacy learning can be expanded and redefined using the medium of spoken word poetry. Featuring portraits of literacy in action, this book introduces teaching practices for fostering peer support, generating new vocabulary, discussing issues of Standard American English, and using personal experiences as literary inspiration.

An introduction to envisioning and carrying out high-quality teacher research in early childhood settings. With attention given to multicultural and multilingual classrooms, this work examines forms of children's play, social interaction, and friendships, language and literacy learning, as well as work with parents and families.

Dedication to social justice teaching is important, yet putting one's ideals into practice in American schools is a challenging task. This book goes beyond theory and idealism to explore the value and impact of implementing social action and social justice activities in the elementary school classroom.

Putting good ideas into practice is one of the greatest challenges facing any educator. This book provides readers with a collection of insights drawn from a diverse array of thinkers that proves there is nothing quite as practical as a good educational philosophy.

Aims to help therapists and counselors successfully integrate the APA's Multicultural Guidelines into their clinical practice. This book explores multicultural characteristics that cut across diverse populations, using real-life situations to explore issues of gender, sexual orientation, social class, religion, and disability.

Focuses on critical issues related to patriotism and democracy in education including the social studies curriculum, military recruitment in schools, and student dissent. This work also investigates the ways our schools have changed since 9/11 and examines the efforts of educators who refuse to toe the new ""patriotic"" line.

How can educators improve the literacy skills of students in a historically underachieving urban high school?This book provides an insider's view to both designing and implementing a culturally responsive approach to improve learning and teaching in a specific subject area.

Covers an important moment in the history of language and literacy education and the struggle for equal language rights. This book looks at the difficult and enduring problem of public schools' failure to educate Black children and revises our approaches to language and literacy learning in the culturally and linguistically diverse classrooms.

Provides empirical evidence of the impact of media literacy on the academic achievement of adolescents. This book chronicles the practice of high school teachers who prepared their students to critically analyze all aspects of contemporary media culture. It documents how a media literacy course significantly improved various academic skills.

Planning is a key element in enriching and enlarging teachers' repertoires and ensuring effective instruction that supports students' academic achievement. Drawing on practices from many different areas of education in the United States and throughout the world, Planning for Learning presents an approach to lesson planning and evaluation that will work in today's diverse school settings. A rich resource for professional development, this book demonstrates collaborative lesson planning for teachers at particular career phases--preservice, novice, and experienced. Chapters include descriptions of valuable strategies, along with examples of teachers' responses. Book Features: A focus on teachers' planning processes and models from around the globe, including Japanese lesson study Discussion of key issues in the field of education, including reflective practice, inclusive education, meeting standards, accountability, and teacher retention Practical strategies to promote collegiality and more meaningful collaboration between basic and higher education An examination of the impact of the Internet and other technologies on lesson planning

Examines the politics of federal education policy through the lens of the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. Using the epic battle that spanned two Congresses and two presidential administrations, this book illustrates the dynamics of political interactions and policy formulation as they affect public education issues.

Brings the research to bear on a range of topics, creating a practical framework that superintendents and their teams can use to transform their big-city school systems into true learning communities. This book demonstrates how thinking about system change in business is used to transform schools and close the achievement gap among students.

Tells the story of the Model Early Learning Center (MELC) in Washington, DC - a school to successfully implement the principles of the Municipal Preschools of Reggio Emilia. The author describes the origin of this school, which served urban families, and traces its evolution from a chaotic inception to its ability to apply Reggio practices.

Providing guidance to urban school board members committed to high achievement for all children, the author presents an approach to board leadership - reform governance. Taking into account the political arena of urban education, reform governance helps school board members understand why it is necessary to redesign urban districts.

Describes and documents an interesting approach to educating literacy teachers. This book takes readers inside a literacy lab in a high-poverty urban elementary school, reveals the instructional approach in action, and provides many examples of critically responsive teaching. It also features a synthesis of several fields of theory and research.

Shows how adults can work together to make the transition to child care, preschool, or kindergarten a good one.

Covering the period between 1984 and 2003, this title features a focus that goes beyond the classroom teaching of writing to include teacher research, second-language writing, rhetoric, home and community literacy, workplace literacy, and histories of writing. It covers both conventional written composition and multimodal forms of composition.

Addressing critical issues of body preoccupation and reducing risk for disordered eating in girls (grades 3-8), this title emphasizes girls' personal power and overall mental and physical well-being. It is useful for educators, health professionals, counselors, and parents as a resource for helping girls make healthy choices for themselves.

Debates spurred by federal charter school test data show how all debates about education could be improved.

Why teach? Listen to the voices of both veteran and new teachers as they share their replies to this question. Sonia Nieto has gathered the insights and inspirations of K-12 classroom teachers as they examine how and why they find purpose and value in the work they do.

Offering a fresh perspective on language socialization in Latino families, this book provides a historical, political, and cultural context for the language attitudes and socialization practices that help determine what and how Latino children speak, read, and write.

A rigorous yet practical approach to the dilemmas that arise in school administration. Using case studies to illustrate ethical issues, the authors cover such topics as: standards; assessment and evaluation; equal opportunity; multiculturalism; religious differences; due process; freedom of expression; personal liberty; and authority.