Educational Policy & Reform
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The Prize
$19.99 Add to cart“One of the most important books on education to come along in years.” — New York Times Book Review
A New York Times Notable Book – A Best Book of the Year, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, The Ne- Author: Russakoff, Dale
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 02 2016
- ISBN10: 0544810902
- Language: English
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Hollowed Out: A Warning about America’s Next Generation
$16.99 Read moreDo teachers have a front row seat to America’s decline?
Jeremy S. Adams, a teacher at both the high school and college levels, thinks so. Adams has spent decades trying to instill wisdom, ambition,- Author: Adams, Jeremy S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1684513804
- Language: English
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Spread Your Wings and FLI: How to Effectively Navigate College as a First-Generation, Low-Income Student
$17.99 Add to cartAre you a first-generation low-income student? Do you know an FLI student who is college bound or currently in college? Are you in a role to support FLI students, such as an advisor, dean, or professo
- Author: Mora, Jessica Ilayalith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 202
- Publish Date: April 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1636769152
- Language: English
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My Word!: Plagiarism and College Culture
$22.00 Add to cart“Classroom Cheats Turn to Computers.” “Student Essays on Internet Offer Challenge to Teachers.” “Faking the Grade.” Headlines such as these have been blaring the alarming news of an epidemic of plagia
- Author: Blum, Susan D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 15 2010
- ISBN10: 0801476615
- Language: English
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Screen Schooled: Two Veteran Teachers Expose How Technology Overuse Is Making Our Kids Dumber
$18.99 Read moreOver the past decade, educational instruction has become increasingly digitized as districts rush to dole out laptops and iPads to every student. Yet the most important question, “Is this what is best… [more below]
- Author: Clement, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1613739516
- Language: English
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The Antiracist Roadmap to Educational Equity: A Systemwide Approach for All Stakeholders
$28.95 Add to cartA practical way forward for those who refuse to accept the status quo as the best we can do.
In 1966, the Coleman report assessed conditions in U.S. schools and identified barriers that prevented Black
- Author: Williams, Avis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 119
- Publish Date: December 08 2023
- ISBN10: 1416632557
- Language: English
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Heaven Helps Those Who Help Themselves
$14.95 Add to cartThere are many issues that affect the African American community that are not being addressed adequately. For a long time now, many African American people have been under the impression or made to fe
- Author: Sams, Markeith
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 102
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 9798889820024
- Language: English
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Dumbing Down Our Kids: Why American Children Feel Good about Themselves But Can’t Read, Write, or Add
$25.00 Add to cartDumbing Down Our Kids is a searing indictment of America’s secondary schools-one that every parent and teacher should read.
Dumbing Down Our Kids offers a full-scale investigation of the new education- Author: Sykes, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0312148232
- Language: English
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Anti-Education Era
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the first champions of the positive effects of gaming reveals the dark side of today’s digital and social media
Today’s schools are eager to use the latest technology in the classroom, but rath- Author: Gee, James Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 08 2013
- ISBN10: 0230342094
- Language: English
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Won’t Lose This Dream: How an Upstart Urban University Rewrote the Rules of a Broken System
$18.99 Add to cartThe “heartfelt” (Shelf Awareness) story of how Georgia State University tore up the rulebook for educating lower-income students
Published to wide acclaim, Won’t Lose This Dream is the “illuminating”
- Author: Gumbel, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1620979152
- Language: English
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The Knowledge Deficit
$14.95 Add to cartAn insightful thinker on what schools teach shows why American students are losing the global education race and performing worse than students in other industrialized countries.
- Author: Hirsch, E. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0618872256
- Language: English
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The Teaching Gap: Best Ideas from the World’s Teachers for Improving Education in the Classroom
$18.99 Add to cartTen years after its first publication, The Teaching Gap remains “a critical resource” (Publishers Weekly) for anyone involved in education. In paperback for the first time, it has been fully revised a… [more below]
- Author: Stigler, James W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 16 2009
- ISBN10: 1439143137
- Language: English
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Crisis in the Classroom: Crisis in Education
$26.99 Read moreIndividuals from Vastly Different Political Perspectives Agree That There Is a Crisis in Education
Education is the foundation of every nation’s success or failure; it produces upstanding citizens, l- Author: Carson, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: November 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1510776885
- Language: English
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Higher Imagination: A Future for Universities
$25.00 Add to cartHigher education (HE) must change. Dialogue can be a source of the ideas and inspiration needed by the sector and its institutions to achieve change. This book contributes to the debate about the futu… [more below]
- Author: Bagshaw, Ant
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: November 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0645955701
- Language: English
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Measuring What We Do in Schools: How to Know If What We Are Doing Is Making a Difference
$28.95 Add to cartWhat is a true learning organization, and how can your school become one?
To excel, schools must embrace continuous school improvement and evaluation, as well as systems thinking. In Measuring What We
- Author: Bernhardt, Victoria L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 06 2017
- ISBN10: 1416623973
- Language: English
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Refugee High: Coming of Age in America
$26.90 Read moreA year in the life of a Chicago high school with one of the nation’s highest proportions of refugees, told with “strong novel-like pacing” (Milwaukee Magazine)
“A stunning and heart-wrenching work of n
- Author: Fishman, Elly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1620978326
- Language: English
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Horace’s Compromise: The Dilemma of the American High School
$16.99 Add to cartFirst published in 1984, this best-selling classic is Theodore Sizer’s eloquent call to arms for school reform. In a new preface, Sizer addresses the encouraging movements afoot today for better schoo
- Author: Sizer, Theodore R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 257
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0618516069
- Language: English
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The Teacher Wars: A History of America’s Most Embattled Profession
$20.00 Read moreNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A groundbreaking history of 175 years of American education that brings the lessons of the past to bear on the dilemmas we face today–and brilliantly illuminates the path … [more below]
- Author: Goldstein, Dana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 04 2015
- ISBN10: 0345803620
- Language: English
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Quality School Ri
$16.99 Add to cart“This should be required reading by every school administator, every teacher, every board member and all university faculty involved in the training of teachers. There is no doubt that we need to sque… [more below]
- Author: Glasser, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 09 1998
- ISBN10: 0060952865
- Language: English
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Life-Enriching Education: Nonviolent Communication Helps Schools Improve Performance, Reduce Conflict, and Enhance Relationships
$15.95 Add to cartWhen Students Love to Learn and Teachers Love to Teach
In this revolutionary book, Marshall Rosenberg empowers educators to transform schools into life-serving, learning-rich environments that maximiz- Author: Rosenberg, Marshall B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1892005050
- Language: English
