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Addresses issues of social justice through the regular curriculum and everyday school life. This book illustrates an approach that integrates social justice education with contemporary research on students' development of moral understandings and concerns for human welfare in order to address societal conventions, norms, and institutions.

Many believe that kindergarten no longer reflects a nurturing environment but, instead, has become a race for children to learn skills so they are ready for the academic achievement tests. Resisting the Kinder-Race examines how the race came about, why it must change, and how all stakeholders must take part in the reform process.

Answers questions that educators have asked of the author, who is a former teacher and legal advocate for ELL families, including the differences among immigrant, refugee, green card, and undocumented students; the right of a school to deny immigration officers entry; and the ways that teachers and school leaders can connect families to services.

Examines how a flux leadership mindset and corresponding tools promote the conditions for educational change that uplift stakeholders and generate contextualized data during emergency situations.

A book that will help educators rethink their expectations of and practices for developing the literacy skills of Black boys in the elementary school classroom. Tatum shows educators how to bring students' literacy development into focus by creating an early intellectual infrastructure of advanced literacy, knowledge, and personal development.

Looks at the development of mathematical thinking in infants and toddlers, with an emphasis on the earliest stage, when mathematical thinking and problem solving first emerge as natural instincts. The text explores four precursor math concepts, with an emphasis on how development occurs when it is nurtured by loving knowledgeable others.

Above preparing students for employability, American schools must prepare youth to be informed citizens and active, constructive participants in the democratic process. These essayists, criticizing as well as lauding the US educational system, believe that such a goal is best accomplished through a high-quality, public, free system of schooling.

In this guide, readers will find an in-depth description of both the conceptual model underlying the ECERS-3 and innovative ways of analysing data for a fuller understanding of what can be done with the scale and why it is integral to the evaluation of early care and education.

Examines the exclusionary aspects of citizenship and offers democratic societies an alternative approach that includes all long-term residents regardless of citizenship and immigration status. Banks reimagines a civic education curriculum that gives students the knowledge and skills they will need to assist the US in becoming a more perfect union.

Brings together key writings from one of the most influential education scholars of our time. In this collection of her seminal essays on critical race theory, Gloria Ladson-Billings seeks to clear up some of the confusion and misconceptions that education researchers have around race and inequality.

Describes the incentives and pressures on charter schools to restrict access and examines how charters navigate those pressures, explaining access-restricting practices in relation to the ecosystem within which charter schools are created.

Discover the language and learning possibilities of young children's active engagement with book experiences, in which they talk with one another as they make meaning from literature centred around their lives and interests.

An accessible guide to help studio art and design professors transform their curriculum and pedagogy so that it is relevant to today's learners. Situating contemporary college teaching within a historic art and design continuum, the author provides a practical framework for considering complex interactions within art and design pedagogy.