Subject: Education
The make-or-break year: solving the dropout crisis one ninth grader at a time
An entirely fresh approach to ending the high school dropout crisis is revealed in this groundbreaking chronicle of unprecedented transformation in a city notorious for […]
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Creating healing school communities: school-based interventions for students exposed to trauma
School systems are pressured to raise the level of academic achievement, but children who are exposed to trauma often bring a complicated set of needs […]
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School safety and violence prevention: science, practice, policy
This book presents a transdisciplinary, data-driven approach to preventing violence in schools, while outlining effective strategies for collaboration with key stakeholders to promote safety. –Summary […]
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Cutting school: privatization, segregation, and the end of public education
Public schools are among America’s greatest achievements in modern history, yet from the earliest days of tax-supported education — today a sector with an estimated […]
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“You can’t fire the bad ones!”: and 18 other myths about teachers, teachers’ unions, and public education
Overturns common misconceptions about charter schools, school “choice,” standardized tests, common core curriculum, and teacher evaluations. Teachers have always been devalued in the United States, […]
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These schools belong to you and me : why we can’t afford to abandon our public schools
A challenge to narrow, profit-driven conceptions of school success and an argument for protecting public education to ensure that all students become competent citizens in […]
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The heart of higher education : a call to renewal : transforming the academy through collegial conversations
A call to advance integrative teaching and learning in higher education. From Parker Palmer, best-selling author of The Courage to Teach, and Arthur Zajonc, professor […]
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The testing charade : pretending to make schools better
For decades we’ve been studying, experimenting with, and wrangling over different approaches to improving public education, and there’s still little consensus on what works and […]
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Color and character : West Charlotte High and the American struggle over educational equality
“West Charlotte opened in 1938 as a segregated school that embodied the aspirations of the growing African American population of Charlotte, North Carolina. In the […]
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Beyond test scores : a better way to measure school quality
What makes a school a “good” school? It’s hard to say, and our current methods of measuring school quality are crude and often misleading. Parents […]
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