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Whitford, Betty Lou, Ed.; Wood, Diane R., Ed. – SUNY Press, 2010
This book raises provocative questions about the efficacy, viability, and sustainability of professional learning communities given the current political and structural realities of public schools. The culmination of six years of research in five states, it explores real-world efforts to establish learning communities as a strategy for…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Teacher Collaboration, Educational Change, Educational Policy
Reed, Ronald F.; Johnson, Tony W. – 1999
Philosophy for Children, a program incorporating teaching methods of inquiry among groups of students and designed to introduce students to philosophy through texts designed to generate discussion, has grown enormously since its inception in the late 1960s. Experimental research on the program's impact has demonstrated significant gains in…
Descriptors: Children, Critical Thinking, Educational Practices, Elementary Secondary Education