Educational Strategies and Policy Books

This text examines the traditional Navajo relationship to the natural world. Specifically, how the tribe once related to a category of animals they collectively referred to as the "ones who hunt." These animals, like Native Americans, were once viewed as...

Together, the voices of early childhood educators, scholars, and professionals can sound the call to advance the profession toward more equitable educational experiences, systems, and practices for all children. This book showcases many of these voices...

"One of the best critiques of current mathematics education I have ever seen."-Keith Devlin, math columnist on NPR's Morning EditionA brilliant research mathematician who has devoted his career to teaching kids reveals math to be creative and beautiful...

As a teacher in an inner-city school, Lucy Crehan was exasperated with ever-changing government policy claiming to be based on lessons from 'top-performing' education systems. She resolved to find out what was really going on in the classrooms of...

Racial justice without shame and blame: Choudhury explores the emotionally loaded topic of racism in a compassionate, scientific manner that everyone can understand, whether you are Black, Indigenous, a person of color (BIPOC) or white. Business...

**Longlisted, Australian Political Book of the Year Award 2022**Why is education in Australia failing?Where did we go wrong, and how do we fix it?The Gonski Review seemed like a breakthrough. Commissioned by Prime Minister Julia Gillard and chaired by...

Kids deserve a better digital future. Help them create it.When it comes to raising children in a digital world, every parent feels underprepared and overwhelmed. We worry that our children will become addicted to online games, be victims of...

This easy-to-use guide explains how to recruit, nourish, and fortify writers of color through innovative reading, writing, workshop, critique, and assessment strategies.A captivating mix of memoir and progressive teaching strategies, The Anti-Racist...

The contributors to this edited volume offer critical analyses on many aspects of diversity as it pertains to institutional policies, practices, discourse, and beliefs. The book is broken down into 19 chapters over 7 sections that cover: policies and...

The liberal arts are dying. They are dying because most Americans don't see the point of them. Americans don't understand why anyone would study literature or history or the classics-or, more contemporarily, feminist criticism, whiteness studies, or the...

In his newest book, Charles Murray fearlessly states two controversial truths about the American population: American whites, blacks, Hispanics, and Asians have different violent crime rates and different means and distributions of cognitive ability. If...

Service learning offers students the unique opportunity to learn both in the classroom and in the real world. This exciting teaching strategy, detailed in Berman's second edition of Service Learning, motivates students to learn content information,...

Parenting Tough Kids delivers simple, proven strategies to improve the behavior, organization, learning, and emotional well-being of all children. Parents will find case studies and practical ideas to help youngsters improve memory and organization,...

The "lively" (Kirkus Reviews), provocative, much-talked-about book that challenges the mandate for all students to master a full menu of mathematics, from the bestselling authorWhen Andrew Hacker published an op-ed in the New York Times questioning the...

Infuse the powerful vocabulary of growth mindset into your lesson plans, feedback and student guidanceChoosing the Right WordsFrom the authors of the bestselling The Growth Mindset Coach, this handy companion is a must-have if you want to...

An easy-to-implement collection of creative ideas and new strategies that inspire students with the power of growth mindsetStudents who harness the power of growth mindset can succeed beyond their wildest imagination. The key is having a growth-mindset...

A complete and easy-to-follow guide for inspiring every student with the power of growth mindset.Created by teachers for teachers, this is the ultimate guide for unleashing students' potential through creative lessons, empowering messages and innovative...

Tens of millions of Americans are between the ages of 18 and 30. These Americans, known as millennials, are, or soon will be, entering the workforce. For them, achieving success will be more difficult than it was for young people in the past. This is not...

Discover how educators, researchers, IT support, and administrators can transform education inside and out, now and for the future.Geographic information system (GIS) technology offers a powerful decision-making tool in various aspects of education. It...

Key Note: Seniors is the fasting growing demographic of pot users in the U.S. And everyone is talking about it! This book is HOT! CANNABIS FOR SENIORS explains how seniors aged 55 and older can employ the therapeutic uses-both social and medical-of...

"I must refrain from shouting what a brilliant work this is (prteritio). Farnsworth has written the book as he ought to have written it and as only he could have written it (symploce). Buy it and read it buy it and read it (epimone)."-Bryan A. Garner,...

You've seen the news. You may have experienced some level of it in your relationship or someone close to you has experienced it. How can two people go from loving relationship to relationship failure? Is your relationship destined to fail? Is there a...

'An important resource that also lays a foundation for social change.' - Edna Acosta-Beln, distinguished professor, University at Albany, SUNY Physical, emotional, verbal, and now cyber bullying are an increasing problem in our nation's schools...

Renowned author Franca Iacovetta provides a new perspective on multiculturalism by examining the hopes and challenges of women activists associated with the Toronto International Institute.For almost two decades before Canada officially adopted...

'Beyond the Tiger Mom is a brilliant book-hard-hitting and brutally honest but also balanced, insightful, and funny.' - Amy Chua, author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother Dispel the hype and myths about Asian parenting and...

What is the value of a liberal education? Traditionally characterised by a rigorous engagement with the classics of Western thought and literature, this approach to education is all but extinct in American universities, replaced by flexible distribution...

An estimated ninety-three percent of graduate students in the humanities and social sciences won't get a tenure-track job, yet many still assume that a tenured professorship is the only successful outcome for a PhD. With the academic job market in such...

The essential how-to guide to successful college teaching and learningThe college classroom is a place where students have the opportunity to be transformed and inspired through learning-but teachers need to understand how students actually learn. Robert...

From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve learning Decades of research have produced profound insights into how student learning and...

An inspiring account of teachers in ordinary circumstances doing extraordinary things, showing us how to transform educationWhat School Could Be offers an inspiring vision of what our teachers and students can accomplish if trusted with the challenge of...

In this short and powerful book, celebrated philosopher Martha Nussbaum makes a passionate case for the importance of the liberal arts at all levels of education. Historically, the humanities have been central to education because they have been seen as...

Hi! I'm Pep Pep Loo Loo and I'm starring in an all new children's book about my adventures in potty training!Pep Pep Loo Loo is a fun loving dog who wants to learn how to use the potty! She gets a few lessons from her mom and her toy friend stuffies:...

Countless studies demonstrate that students with parents actively involved in their education at home and school are more likely to earn higher grades and test scores, enroll in higher-level programs, graduate from high school, and go on to...

An updated edition of the classic revolutionary analysis of the role of race in the classroom Winner of an American Educational Studies Association Critics' Choice Award and Choice Magazine's Outstanding Academic Book Award, and voted one of Teacher...

*Winner of a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts Blue collar worker stories Author's first fiction collection

This book warns of a future where the hardest schools for Australian parents to get their kids into will be public ones. With insight, passion and a great sense of urgency Chris Bonnor and Jane Caro show how government, anxious parents, the church and...

In a work of narrative nonfiction that weaves together the racially fraught history of public education in Milwaukee and the broader story of hypersegregation in the rust belt, Lessons from the Heartland tells of an iconic city's fall from grace - and of...