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Boldt, Gail Masuchika, Ed.; Salvio, Paula M., Ed.; Taubman, Peter M., Ed. – Bank Street College of Education, 2009
Concerned that various reforms promising greater professional autonomy and status as well as student success are actually disempowering teachers, impoverishing intellectual life in schools, and serving as a portal for the marketization of teaching and education, editors invited teachers to respond to the ways in which the proliferation of…
Descriptors: Professional Autonomy, Student Evaluation, Accountability, Classroom Environment
Russell, William B., III, Ed. – IAP - Information Age Publishing, Inc., 2012
The field of social studies is unique and complex. It is challenged by the differing perspectives related to the definition, goals, content, and purpose of social studies. Contemporary Social Studies: An Essential Reader discusses the contemporary issues surrounding social studies education today. Contemporary Social Studies: An Essential Reader…
Descriptors: Geography Instruction, Global Education, Citizenship, Popular Culture
Valencia, Richard R., Ed. – 1993
This book examines the school failure and success of Chicano students from a wide variety of perspectives. It attempts to promote further understanding of what constitutes, maintains, and helps shape school failure among Chicano students, and to present research and policy agendas that may help to realize Chicano school success. Five sections…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Failure, Bilingual Education, Culture Conflict
Brennan, Robert L., Ed. – Praeger, 2006
"Educational Measurement" has been the bible in its field since the first edition was published by ACE in 1951. The importance of this fourth edition of "Educational Measurement" is to extensively update and extend the topics treated in the previous three editions. As such, the fourth edition documents progress in the field and…
Descriptors: Educational Testing, Educational Assessment, Test Validity, Test Reliability