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Dan Wuori – Teachers College Press, 2024
For a century, America's early childhood policy has been premised on a myth. This falsehood--which dictates that child care and education are somehow separate and distinct--not only suboptimizes the most important window into all human development, but costs American taxpayers an untold fortune. It's time to think differently. Written in plain yet…
Descriptors: Child Care, Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Student Needs
M. A. Clements, Editor; Berinderjeet Kaur, Editor; Thomas Lowrie, Editor; Vilma Mesa, Editor; Johan Prytz, Editor – Springer, 2024
This fourth international handbook discusses developments not recognized or dealt with fully in the first three Springer Mathematics Education handbooks and tackles controversial issues in the field. After starting with a provocative introductory chapter which asks whether controversy is a healthy feature of international mathematics education,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Theory Practice Relationship, Equal Education, Social Justice
Weinstein, Yana; Sumeracki, Megan; Caviglioli, Oliver – Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2018
Educational practice does not, for the most part, rely on research findings. Instead, there's a preference for relying on our intuitions about what's best for learning. But relying on intuition may be a bad idea for teachers and learners alike. This accessible guide helps teachers to integrate effective, research-backed strategies for learning…
Descriptors: Best Practices, Teaching Methods, Evidence Based Practice, Cognitive Processes
Malone, Helen Janc, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2013
This collection features original essays from international superstars in the field of educational change. Each "think piece" draws on the latest knowledge from research, policy, and practice to provide important insights for creating systemic, meaningful reform. The authors directly address contemporary challenges, misconceptions, and…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Change Strategies, Barriers, Misconceptions
Nero, Shondel; Ahmad, Dohra – Routledge Research in Education, 2014
This book draws on applied linguistics and literary studies to offer concrete means of engaging with vernacular language and literature in secondary and college classrooms. The authors embrace a language-as-resource orientation, countering the popular narrative of vernaculars as problems in schools. The book is divided into two parts, with the…
Descriptors: Native Language, Applied Linguistics, Case Studies, Higher Education
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Guler, Nilufer, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Teaching English language learners has long presented challenges for teachers tasked with bringing these students to a level of language comprehension comparable to that of native speakers. These challenges and issues can lead to difficulty comprehending core academic topics for those learning the English language. "Optimizing Elementary…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary School Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Borasi, Raffaella – 1996
Significant instructional changes in mathematics will be achieved only if each educator involved with school mathematics engages in a personal rethinking of various aspects of mathematics instruction and identifies some concrete ways in which his or her current practice could be modified to reflect the results of such rethinking. This book is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions
Robertson, William C. – 2003
This book is designed to help teachers bolster their content knowledge by focusing on specific science concepts regarding the topic of light. The book covers three scientific models of light and discusses the observations that can be explained by each model. Chapters include: (1) "LightN-The Early Years"; (2) "Colorful Waves"; (3) "Focus, People,…
Descriptors: Knowledge Base for Teaching, Light, Misconceptions, Physics
Corwin, Ronald G.; Schneider, E. Joseph – Rowman & Littlefield Education, 2007
The federal government is devoting millions of dollars to charter and voucher programs that currently require parents to abandon regular public schools. The goal of the authors of The School Choice Hoax is to expose the misleading hyperbole that has been driving the school choice movement and to show how charter schools can become more effective…
Descriptors: Small Schools, School Based Management, Open Enrollment, Federal Government
Orr, Eleanor Wilson – 1987
It is the premise of this study that the performance of black students in math and science is crippled by the interference of their language patterns. It is argued that schoolwork of these students demonstrates how nonstandard English can lead to misunderstanding. The connection between students' misunderstandings of certain quantitative relations…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Black Dialects, Black Students, Error Patterns
Smith, P. Sean – 2001
This book presents classroom activities and reading materials. The activities use a hands-on approach and address the standards. Each features both a student section and a teacher guide. Eleven activities include: (1) "It's Only a Paper Moon"; (2) "Time Traveler"; (3) "Solar System Scale"; (4) "Hello Out…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Astronomy, Concept Formation, Earth Science
Deines-Jones, Courtney; Van Fleet, Connie – 1995
It is estimated that one in every five people in the United States has problems performing daily activities without help, perhaps due to the aging of the population and to more and more children surviving severe birth defects. The importance of library services to the disabled cannot be overestimated; they have the same information needs as any…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Accessibility (for Disabled), Disabilities, Disability Discrimination
Fein, Deborah; Dunn, Michelle A. – Woodbine House, 2007
Children with autism spectrum disorders are increasingly being educated in inclusive general education classrooms. For optimal results, teachers need to know as much as possible about autism and the teaching methods and modifications that work best for these students. This is a huge undertaking for time-crunched general education teachers, many of…
Descriptors: Autism, Positive Reinforcement, Reading Instruction, Pervasive Developmental Disorders
Baroody, Arthur J. – 1987
Based on the premise that psychology can be an invaluable tool to mathematics educators, this book highlights how informal mathematics develops, how children construct their view of school arithmetic, and how mathematical thinking operates. The ideas offered are intended to assist teachers in making informed decisions concerning mathematics…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Psychology, Developmental Psychology, Early Childhood Education
Pearsall, Marcia K., Ed. – 1992
This book is a collection of research papers and respected philosophical statements on how secondary school students learn science best. Taken together, these papers serve as the basis for the Project on Scope, Sequence, and Coordination of Secondary School Science (SS&C). This book explains where the learning ideas of the SS&C Content…
Descriptors: Ability Grouping, Academic Achievement, Classroom Research, Concept Formation
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