Educational Strategies and Policy Books

~40 DAYS to Reflection and Peace is a road map for readers to consider their core values and find peace in a chaotic world. Each day of reading offers humor and insights about life that will cause readers to think twice about their own values,...

This book uniquely examines the trajectory of Black males through the educational pipeline from pre-school through college. In doing so it not only contributes significantly to the scholarship on the experiences of this population, but bridges the gap...

This book bridges the divide. It argues that unrealistic expectations lead to both unproductive research and impossible standards for "evidence-based" policy and practice, and it offers promising ways for evidence to contribute to improvement.

This book presents leaders and aspiring leaders in community colleges with a theoretical and practical framework for analyzing their leadership styles, and determining the dimensions of leadership they need to improve in order to strengthen their...

Embrace Leadership to Combat All Forms of PrejudiceIs there a "nigger" in you? If you have attempted to avoid and/or escape oppression, been made to feel as if you are a problem, been treated as "lesser than" or even like a criminal, all just because you...

With his knack for making science intelligible for the layman, and his ability to illuminate scientific concepts through analogy and reference to personal experience, James Zull offers the reader an engrossing and coherent introduction to what...

Extracts from the text: "Why are fifteen million children and youth in poverty not achieving when we know that low-income students excel in the classrooms of "star" teachers (who comprise approximately 8 percent of the teaching force)?".

This book presents the underlying concept of funds of knowledge for race-conscious expertise that informs this process, describes its underlying theories; defines the attributes needed to achieve equity-minded practice; demonstrates, through examples of...

· Interviews with Black students and experienced educators provide guidance on how to teach successfully in multicultural classes· Insights and ideas to promote observation, reflection, and effective classroom practice· Ideal for initiating constructive...

This book offers a clear-eyed and balanced analysis of for-profit colleges and universities, reviewing their history, business strategies, and management practices; setting them in the context of marketplace conditions, the framework of public policy and...

This book brings together new scholarship that expands and refines the concept of self-authorship across cultures. It adopts a constructive-developmental approach to self-evolution that emphasizes the interaction of personal characteristics and...

The authors provide insight into identity development, environmental influences, and how these factors influence persistence in higher education. By using a synthesis approach to organize multiple studies around how being Latinx influences the...

This book explores the importance, and construction, of ethnic identity among college students, and how ethnicity interfaces with students' interactions on campus, and the communities in which they live. This book is intended as a resource for...

This book considers various facets of academic culture, discusses how to study it, how to analyze it, and how to improve it in order to move colleges and universities aggressively into the future while maintaining core academic values. This book presents...

This book analyzes the emerging trend of the community college baccalaureate degree in the United States and Canada in order to contribute to the development of policy. This book is intended as a catalyst for dialog, action and further research on this...

This is the first book specifically to engage with the absence of Latinas/os in doctoral studies. It proposes educational and administrative strategies to open up the pipeline, and institutional practices to ensure access, support, models and training...

WINNER OF AERA'S NARRATIVE & RESEARCH SPECIAL INTEREST GROUP 2003 BOOK AWARD. This groundbreaking book extends Marcia Baxter Magolda's renowned longitudinal study and follows her participants' lives from their graduation to their early thirties.

A unique reference describing successful diversity initiatives in higher education. Higher education, like the nation, is facing major demographic changes.

Are you being the best leader you can be?In the wake of seismic operating shifts, technological advances, and a global pandemic, workplaces are forever changed-and what used to work no longer yields the same results.In Be Human, Lead Human, executive...