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Resilience education Resilience education Bonnie Benard,Joel H. Brown,Marianne D'Emidio-Caston,Joel H Brown xvi, 105 p. : 26 cm OL12325992W
The unschooling handbook The unschooling handbook Mary Griffith To Unschoolers, Learning Is As Natural As BreathingDid you know that a growing percentage of home schoolers are becoming unschoolers? The unschooling movement is founded on the principle that childre… OL14852680W
Educating the Whole Child Educating the Whole Child John L. Brown While everyone wants students to be healthy, safe, engaged, supported, and challenged, it's tough to work toward that vision when there are so many other priorities and constraints. That's why we've … OL15367226W
Emergent learning for wisdom Emergent learning for wisdom Marilyn M. Taylor "The new millennium presents us with unexpected events that challenge us to think and act in fundamentally different ways. Meeting these challenges requires not only the creation of knowledge but the… OL15415063W
The schools our children deserve The schools our children deserve Alfie Kohn Argues against the "tougher standards" rhetoric and the current practice of teaching to standarized tests in favor of helping students become more critical, creative thinkers. OL15861386W
Educating for the knowledge economy? Educating for the knowledge economy? Hugh Lauder,Michael F. D. Young,Harry Daniels,Lowe, John,Maria Balarin "The promise, embraced by governments around the world, is that the knowledge economy will provide knowledge workers with a degree of autonomy and permission to think which enables them to be creativ… OL16126186W
Education policy unravelled Education policy unravelled Derek Kassem "A comprehensive introduction the nature of contemporary education policy, its purposes and political formation which supports readers to engage in contemporary policy analysis"-- Provided by publish… OL16342688W
Schooling, childhood, and bureaucracy Schooling, childhood, and bureaucracy Tony Waters "This book is about how modern American childhood is shaped by the bureaucratic tools including mass testing, child psychology, and the status hiearchies. This happens in a world where there is an em… OL16617907W
White Elephants on Campus White Elephants on Campus Margaret M. Grubiak In White Elephants on Campus: The Decline of the University Chapel in America, 1920-1960, Margaret M. Grubiak persuasively argues, through a careful selection of case studies, that the evolution of t… OL16816777W
The Paulo Freire reader The Paulo Freire reader Paulo Freire "The Paulo Freire Reader is the essential collection of Freire's most trenchant writings. These readings are carefully selected by Ana Maria Araujo Freire and Donaldo Macedo. They provide a substanti… OL1870506W
The New servants of power The New servants of power Ernest Kahane xiii, 203 p. : 24 cm OL19006013W
Why knowledge matters Why knowledge matters E. D. Hirsch In this provocative book, influential scholar E.D. Hirsch, Jr., addresses critical issues in contemporary education reform - over-testing, teacher blaming, preschool fadeout, and the persistence of a… OL20039398W
Power of Character Power of Character Andrew Reay 240 pages : 22 cm OL21326020W
Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development Chinese Research Perspectives on Educational Development Dongping Yang This book is an English translation of selected articles from the "2013 Annual Report on Educational Development in China", produced by the 21st Century Education Development Research Academy in Chin… OL21788597W
Field Guide to Academic Leadership Field Guide to Academic Leadership Robert M. Diamond Bob Diamond has cut to the heart of the matter and has given us a field guide -- actually a handbook -- of real, hands-on academic leadership. He has assembled an elite group of contributors who prov… OL2668657W
A Vision for Today: John Eggleston's Writings on Education A Vision for Today: John Eggleston's Writings on Education John Eggleston xi, 173 p. ; 23 cm OL2852134W
Recovering the lost tools of learning Recovering the lost tools of learning Douglas Wilson Public education in America has run into hard times. Even many within the system admit that it is failing. While many factors contribute, Douglas Wilson lays much blame on the idea that education can… OL4461413W
The making of Americans The making of Americans E. D. Hirsch From the bestselling author of Cultural Literacy, a passionate and cogent argument for reforming the way we teach our children Why, after decades of commissions, reforms, and efforts at innovation, d… OL450334W
The Schools We Need The Schools We Need E. D. Hirsch This paperback edition, with a new introduction, offers a powerful, compelling, and unassailable argument for reforming America's schooling methods and ideas--by one of America's most important educa… OL450346W
New priorities for the university New priorities for the university E. A. Lynton xxii, 194 p. ; 24 cm OL5274831W
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