Educational Policy & Reform
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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 Add to cartNEW 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 Read moreWhen 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
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To Create the World That Ought to Be: Memoirs of a Radical Educator
$39.99 Add to cartTo Create the World That Ought to Be explores enticing possibilities and proven solutions for transforming our society and ourselves, as viewed through the lens of the life and work of a celebrated vi
- Author: Langberg, Arnie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: July 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987537305
- Language: English
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Wasted Education: How We Fail Our Graduates in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math
$30.00 Read moreAn urgent reality check for America’s blinkered fixation on STEM education.
We live in an era of STEM obsession. Not only do tech companies dominate American enterprise and economic growth while compl
- Author: Skrentny, John D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 17 2023
- ISBN10: 226825795
- Language: English
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37 Words: Title IX and Fifty Years of Fighting Sex Discrimination
$49.00 Add to cartA sweeping history of the federal legislation that prohibits sex discrimination in education, published on the fiftieth anniversary of Title IX
“No person in the United States shall, on the basis of s
- Author: Boschert, Sherry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1620975831
- Language: English
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Mission High: One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph
$16.99 Add to cart“This book is a godsend a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and … [more below]
- Author: Rizga, Kristina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 09 2016
- ISBN10: 1568585675
- Language: English
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City of Intellect
$99.17 Add to cartDuring his four years as the tenth Chancellor of Berkeley (2013-17), Nicholas B. Dirks was confronted by crises arguably more challenging than those faced by any other college administrator in the con… [more below]
- Author: Dirks, Nicholas B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 275
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1009394460
- Language: English
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Contextual Wellbeing: Creating Positive Schools from the Inside Out
$14.95 Add to cartOur schools and colleges have never done so much to ‘teach’ whole school wellbeing, support mental health and engage young people in learning. Yet, young people have never been so disengaged, demotiva
- Author: Street, Helen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: September 17 2018
- ISBN10: 0980639719
- Language: English
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Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “An impassioned book, laced with anger and indignation, about how our public education system scorns so many of our children.”–The New York Times Book Review
In 1988, Jona- Author: Kozol, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 24 2012
- ISBN10: 0770435688
- Language: English
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Parkland: Birth of a Movement
$19.99 Read moreA New York Times Bestseller
“A moving petition to America that it not look away from the catastrophes at Columbine, Newtown, Sandy Hook, Virginia Tech, and, yes, Parkland. It succeeds as an in-depth re
- Author: Cullen, Dave
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 0062882961
- Language: English
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Children Under Fire: An American Crisis
$20.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction * Winner of the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice
Based on the acclaimed series–a finalist for the Pulitz
- Author: Cox, John Woodrow
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 19 2022
- ISBN10: 0062883941
- Language: English
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Instructional Coaching in Action: An Integrated Approach That Transforms Thinking, Practice, and Schools
$29.95 Add to cartUnlike “fix-it” strategies that targeted teachers are likely to resist, educator-centered instructional coaching–ECIC–offers respectful coaching for professionals within their schoolwide community.
- Author: Eisenberg, Ellen B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: May 22 2017
- ISBN10: 141662368X
- Language: English
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A Mind at a Time: America’s Top Learning Expert Shows How Every Child Can Succeed
$19.99 Add to cart“Different minds learn differently,” writes Dr. Mel Levine, one of the best-known learning experts and pediatricians in America today. Some students are strong in certain areas and some are strong in … [more below]
- Author: Levine, Mel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: January 09 2003
- ISBN10: 0743202236
- Language: English
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American Gulags: Marxist Tyranny in Higher Education and What to Do about It
$20.00 Read moreAmerican Gulags show us how to overcome the Marxist indoctrination which has swept across the American government education system.
America’s system of colleges and universities was once the best in- Author: North, Oliver L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1956454063
- Language: English
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The Accidental Equalizer: How Luck Determines Pay After College
$27.50 Read moreA startling discovery–that job market success after college is largely random–forces a reappraisal of education, opportunity, and the American dream.
As a gateway to economic opportunity, a college- Author: Streib, Jessi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0226829316
- Language: English
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The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money
$22.95 Read moreWhy we need to stop wasting public funds on education
Despite being immensely popular–and immensely lucrative–education is grossly overrated. Now with a new afterword by Bryan Caplan, this explosive- Author: Caplan, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: August 20 2019
- ISBN10: 0691196451
- Language: English
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Why Are We Still Doing That?: Positive Alternatives to Problematic Teaching Practices
$29.95 Add to cartOld habits die hard, particularly when they are part of the unexamined norms of schooling. In Why Are We Still Doing That?, the best-selling authors of Total Participation Techniques lead a teacher-po
- Author: Himmele, Pérsida
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 133
- Publish Date: October 27 2021
- ISBN10: 1416630511
- Language: English
