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Restorative Justice in Education offers educators the pedagogical tools they need to transform their classroom into just, inclusive, and uplifting spaces. This book includes the voices of leading practitioners and scholars, who address the need for restorative and transformative justice work within, across, and beyond the core disciplines. Through essays, case studies, and interviews, the book outlines for educators and teacher educators how r...

Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity provides a how-to guide for education, government, and community leaders interested in creating cross-sector systems of support for students. These collaborations strive to close achievement and opportunity gaps and help children overcome problems stemming from poverty, racism, and other societal ills. Based on a framework developed at Harvard's By All Means Initiative, the book walks readers thr...

Collaborative Action for Equity and Opportunity provides a how-to guide for education, government, and community leaders interested in creating cross-sector systems of support for students. These collaborations strive to close achievement and opportunity gaps and help children overcome problems stemming from poverty, racism, and other societal ills. Based on a framework developed at Harvard's By All Means Initiative, the book walks readers thr...

Teachers of Color describes how racism serves as a continuous barrier against diversifying the teaching force and offers tools to support educators who identify as Black, Indigenous, or people of Color on a systemic and interpersonal level. Based on in-depth interviews, digital narratives, and questionnaires, the book analyzes the toll of racism on teachers' professional experiences and personal well-being, as well as their resistance and reim...

Between the State and the Schoolhouse examines the Common Core State Standards from the initiative's promising beginnings to its disappointing outcomes. Situating the standards in the long history of state and federal efforts to shape education, the book describes a series of critical lessons that highlight the political and structural challenges of large-scale, top-down reforms. Education policy expert Tom Loveless argues that there are too m...

Teacher Diversity and Student Success makes a powerful case for diversifying the teaching force as an important policy lever for closing achievement gaps and moving schools closer to equity goals. Written by three leading scholars, the book outlines solutions for diversifying the teaching force, increasing student exposures to same-race teachers, and improving teacher training for a culturally diverse student body. They argue that teacher dive...

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In Campus Carry, editors Patricia Somers and Matt Valentine lead an examination of the unintended consequences of campus gun policy and showcase the voices from the college community who are grappling with the questions, issues, and consequences that have emerged at their respective institutions. While making the case that campus carry legislation is harmful, the book gathers some of the very best thinking around enacting such policies and off...

In Challenging the One Best System, a team of leading education scholars examines the design and enactment of the portfolio management model in three major cities: New Orleans, Los Angeles, and Denver. The authors identify five interlocking mechanisms at the core of the model--planning and oversight, choice, autonomy, human capital, and school supports--and show how these are implemented differently in each city. Using rich qualitative data fr...

Rural Education in America provides a comprehensive framework for understanding the diversity and complexity of rural communities in the United States and for helping rural educators implement and evaluate successful place-based programs tailored for students and their families. The authors, who grew up in rural America and returned there to raise their children, weave research, compelling case studies, and personal experience to illustrate ef...

In Campus Carry, editors Patricia Somers and Matt Valentine lead an examination of the unintended consequences of campus gun policy and showcase the voices from the college community who are grappling with the questions, issues, and consequences that have emerged at their respective institutions. While making the case that campus carry legislation is harmful, the book gathers some of the very best thinking around enacting such policies and off...

Toward Anti-Oppressive Teaching introduces an innovative approach for using live-actor simulations to prepare preservice teachers for diverse classroom settings. Based on the SHIFT Project at Vanderbilt University, the book highlights the promise of these encounters to empower preservice teachers to become more culturally responsive. Filled with engaging examples and testimony from preservice teachers, the book provides guiding principles and ...

Toward Anti-Oppressive Teaching introduces an innovative approach for using live-actor simulations to prepare preservice teachers for diverse classroom settings. Based on the SHIFT Project at Vanderbilt University, the book highlights the promise of these encounters to empower preservice teachers to become more culturally responsive. Filled with engaging examples and testimony from preservice teachers, the book provides guiding principles and ...

The Teacher Insurgency addresses the contextual factors that perpetuated the recent wave of teacher strikes and the dramatic impact this activism has had on American public education, teacher unions, and the larger labor movement. With an eye to maintaining the momentum of the insurgency, Leo Casey examines four key strategic questions that have arisen from the strikes: the relationship of mobilization to organizing, the relationship between p...

Adolescents at School brings together the perspectives of scholars, educators, and researchers to address the many issues that affect adolescents' emerging identities. This third edition includes new chapters on boys' emotional lives, risk and resilience in girls, the experiences of undocumented immigrant students, Muslim-American youth, and income inequality, features on "teaching while white", and an extensively updated chapter on LGBTQ+ stu...

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Drawing on narratives from hundreds of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous people, Ebony Omotola McGee examines the experiences of underrepresented racially minoritized students and faculty members who have succeeded in STEM and the toll that such success has exacted. In Black, Brown, Bruised, McGee advocates for structural and institutional changes to address racial discrimination, stereotyping, and hostile environments in an effort to make the STE...

Transgender Students in Elementary School will undoubtedly be a valuable and powerful tool in the hands of people who do want to build a better world for the trans and gender-nonconforming people living in it." >Transgender Students in Elementary School offers guidance to educators who want to provide a supportive school culture and climate for transgender and gender-expansive students. The book provides recommendations for creating learning e...