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Highlights the challenging and necessary work of fostering social justice in schools. Integral to this work are the teachers and school leaders who enact the principles of social justice - racial equity, cultural inclusivity, and identity acceptance - daily in their classrooms.
Using original data, this book confronts the ways, direct and indirect, in which US Immigration and Customs Enforcement policies disrupt education. It explores the impact of these policies not only on the students at risk for being directly affected by enforcement, but also the consequences for their classmates, educators, and communities.
Offers a framework and essential set of strategies for successfully implementing project-based learning (PBL) in the classroom. Centering on teaching practice, this work moves beyond project planning to focus on the complex instructional demands of the student-centered PBL approach.
Teacher educator and educational researcher Rita Kohli documents the hostile racial climate that teachers of color experience over the course of their academic and professional lives - first as students and preservice teachers and later in their schools. She also highlights the tools of resistance employed to challenge institutionalized oppression.
Provides a powerful cautionary tale about the challenges involved in enacting large-scale educational change. The book, chronicling the Expanded Success Initiative, a study focused on improving the educational outcomes of Black and Latinx males in New York City public high schools, covers what worked, what didn't, and what we can learn.
Makes the case for restorative justice as a practice as much as it is a paradigm. Through essays, case studies, and interviews, the book outlines for educators and teacher educators how restorative justice can be leveraged to teach across disciplines.
Makes the case for restorative justice as a practice as much as it is a paradigm. Through essays, case studies, and interviews, the book outlines for educators and teacher educators how restorative justice can be leveraged to teach across disciplines.
Highlights the structural conditions that have undermined the success of the standards movement and challenges us to confront them. The book offers an impassioned argument about the ways that our decentralized educational systems undermine the pursuit of educational equity and excellence.
Argues that tuition-free college, if pursued strategically and in alignment with other sectors, can be a powerful agent of change. Michelle Miller-Adams makes the case that broadly accessible and affordable higher education is in the public interest, yielding dividends not just for individuals but also for the communities, states, and nations.
The first book to provide a framework for designing and utilizing rigorous, standards-aligned curriculum to address the lack of representation for marginalized communities in formal education. It provides step-by-step guidance for curriculum development that connects students to the intellectual traditions of their communities.
Written by three leading scholars, this book provides nuanced solutions on how to diversify the teaching force, increase student exposures to same-race teachers, and improve teacher training for a culturally diverse student body.
Illustrates how community colleges can utilize design thinking to identify and evaluate entrepreneurial opportunities, and experiment with the internal changes necessary to optimize outcomes for stakeholders.
Offers a rich comparative analysis of the set of urban education governance reforms collectively known as the 'portfolio management model'. The book investigates the degree to which this model - a system of schools operating under different governance and with different degrees of autonomy - challenges the standard structure of district governance.
Provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the diversity and complexity of rural communities in the United States and for helping rural educators implement and evaluate successful place-based programs tailored for students and their families.
Provides an original analysis of evidence use in education policymaking to help scholars and advocates shape policy more effectively. The book offers an in-depth understanding of the political environment in which evidence is solicited and used. Two key case studies inform the book's findings.
Based on interview data, life testimonios, and Chicana feminist theories, The Chicana/o/x Dream profiles first-generation, Mexican-descent college students who have overcome adversity by utilizing various forms of cultural capital to power their academic success.
Identifies and presents specific strategies and practices for using digital tools to reduce inequities in educational opportunities and improve student outcomes. The book highlights the factors that can support or impede the effective implementation of digital learning in K-12 schools at all levels: district, school, classroom, and student.
Written by two leading experts in education research and policy, Common-Sense Evidence is a concise, accessible guide that helps education leaders find and interpret data and research, and then put that knowledge into action.
Illustrates how educators have effectively applied the six core principles of continuous improvement in practice. The book highlights relevant examples of rigorous, high-quality improvement work in districts, schools, and professional development networks across America.
Introduces an innovative approach for using live-actor simulations to prepare preservice teachers for diverse classroom settings. Based on the SHIFT Project at Vanderbilt University, the book highlights the promise of these encounters to empower preservice teachers to become more culturally responsive.
Addresses how the unexpected wave of recent teacher strikes has had a dramatic impact on American public education, teacher unions, and the larger labour movement. Leo Casey explains how this uprising was rooted in deep-seated changes in the economic climate, social movements, and, most importantly, educational politics.
Provides a practical, step-by-step guide for putting the principles of universal design into action. The book offers multiple ways to access, engage with, and transform the higher education environment, and is filled with applications, examples, recommendations, and above all, a framework in which to conceptualize UDHE.
Drawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous individuals, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of under-represented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM.
Describes the phenomenon of unconscious racial bias and how it negatively affects the work of educators and students in schools. Through personal anecdotes and real-life scenarios, Unconscious Bias in Schools provides education leaders with an essential roadmap for addressing this issue directly.
Examines the unintended consequences of campus gun policy and showcases the voices from the college community who are grappling with the questions, issues, and consequences that have emerged at their respective institutions.
Examines the unintended consequences of campus gun policy and showcases the voices from the college community who are grappling with the questions, issues, and consequences that have emerged at their respective institutions.
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