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Wehmeyer, Michael L. – Teachers College Press, 2019
Michael Wehmeyer, a leading scholar with over four decades of experience as a teacher, teacher educator, researcher, and advocate, provides a cogent but accessible account of the evolution of special education. Offering a compelling vision of where the field should be headed in the next decade, he notes how the digital revolution has made it…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Student Characteristics, Student Needs, Individualized Instruction
Fraser, James W.; Lefty, Lauren – Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018
As recently as 1990, if a person wanted to become a public school teacher in the United States, he or she needed to attend an accredited university education program. Less than three decades later, the variety of routes into teaching is staggering. In "Teaching Teachers," education historians James W. Fraser and Lauren Lefty look at…
Descriptors: Public School Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Educational Change, Teacher Education
Zhao, Yong; Emler, Trina E.; Snethen, Anthony; Yin, Danqing – Teachers College Press, 2019
Discover how education innovations can produce astonishing results in student success both in and out of school. The educators featured in this book were motivated by the conviction that even the best status quo education was not serving current student needs. They responded with radical changes that tap into recent ideas about educational…
Descriptors: Educational Innovation, Educational Change, Change Strategies, Student Centered Learning
Driscoll, David P. – Harvard Education Press, 2017
"Commitment and Common Sense" tells the inside story of how Massachusetts became a national model for education. Twelve years after the passage of the state's comprehensive education reform law in 1993, Bay State student scores rose to the top of "the nation's report card" (the National Assessment of Educational Progress) in…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Achievement Gains, State Standards, Scores
D'Arcy, Kate – Trentham Books, 2014
Elective home education (EHE) is a legal alternative to school in England but the statutory requirements for provision are remarkably vague. This book explores the use of EHE by Gypsy and Traveller families. The accounts of their experiences and their views about education spaces reveal the racism and discrimination their children encounter in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Home Schooling, Minority Groups, Racial Bias
Hazel, Cynthia E. – APA Books, 2016
Positive youth development is a strengths-based, positive psychology approach to fostering adolescents' educational engagement and achievement. It focuses not just on students' academic development but also on their vocational, social, and emotional development. The positive youth development philosophy is at the heart of Cynthia Hazel's unique…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Academic Achievement, Holistic Approach, Social Development
Prensky, Marc – Corwin, 2012
What can you learn on a cell phone? Almost anything! How does that concept fit with our traditional system of education? It doesn't. Best-selling author and futurist Marc Prensky's book of essays challenges educators to "reboot" and make the changes necessary to prepare students for 21st century careers. His "bottom-up" vision is based on…
Descriptors: Educational Methods, Computer Literacy, Educational Technology, Teaching Methods
Marginson, Simon; Sawir, Erlenawati – Palgrave Macmillan, 2011
Written by a cross-cultural pair of authors, "Ideas for Intercultural Education" takes a critical look at present approaches to international education, focusing on the intercultural potential that it offers but mostly fails to deliver. The underlying premise of this profound, engaging book is that international education can be a transforming…
Descriptors: Foreign Students, Multicultural Education, Teaching Methods, Educational Methods
Olson, Kirsten – Teachers College Press, 2009
While reformers and policymakers focus on achievement gaps, testing, and accountability, millions of students mentally and emotionally disengage from learning and many gifted teachers leave the field. Ironically, today's schooling is damaging the single most essential component to education--the joy of learning. How do we recognize the "wounds"…
Descriptors: School Culture, Learning, Learner Engagement, Educational Change
Sternberg, Robert J.; Jarvin, Linda; Grigorenko, Elena L. – Cambridge University Press, 2010
This book is a scholarly overview of the modern concepts, definitions, and theories of intellectual giftedness, and of past and current developments in the field of gifted education. The authors consider, in some detail, the roles of intelligence, creativity, and wisdom in giftedness and the interaction between culture and giftedness, as well as…
Descriptors: Gifted, Psychologists, Social Work, Theories
OECD Publishing (NJ3), 2012
Recognising both the complexity of skills policies and the potential for peer learning, the OECD has developed a global Skills Strategy that helps countries to identify the strengths and weaknesses of their national skills systems, benchmark them internationally, and develop policies that can transform better skills into better jobs, economic…
Descriptors: Economic Progress, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Strategic Planning
Walser, Nancy – Harvard Education Press, 2009
Amid today's heightened attention on student achievement, school boards find their responsibilities intensified and transformed. In this age of accountability, all school boards need to consider how best to maintain a focus on student achievement and promote it through district and school policies. "The Essential School Board Book" answers this…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Boards of Education, Accountability, Superintendents
Salomon, Gavriel, Ed.; Cairns, Ed, Ed. – Psychology Press, Taylor & Francis Group, 2009
This handbook encompasses a range of disciplines that underlie the field of peace education and provides the rationales for the ways it is actually carried out. The discipline is a composite of contributions from a variety of disciplines ranging from social psychology to philosophy and from communication to political science. That is, peace…
Descriptors: Political Science, Peace, Intergroup Relations, Foreign Countries
Brosnan, Michael – 1997
Most large and mid-size cities suffer from alarming numbers of high school drop-outs. One man decided to do something about his city's high drop-out rate: He started the Urban Collaborative Accelerated Program (UCAP), an independent, public, middle school for teenagers at risk of dropping out. The details of that program are outlined here. The…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Educational Environment, Educational Innovation, Educational Methods
Gamson, Zelda F. – 1989
The history of CAEL under its various names (Cooperative Assessment of Experiential Learning (1974-77), Council for the Advancement of Experiential Learning (1977-84), and Council for Adult and Experiential Learning (1985-present) is documented. Chapter One analyzes the context in which CAEL was founded, looking at nontraditional education in the…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Educational History, Educational Methods, Educational Objectives
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