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In Chasing Success and Confronting Failure in American Public Schools, historian and educator Larry Cuban provides a thorough examination of, and challenge to, past and present definitions of what constitutes educational success in the United States. Cuban argues that schools thrive or decline based on a variety of factors, including social and political dynamics, leadership in school districts and communities, and policy improvisations. The b...

This revised and expanded second edition of Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There focuses on a crucial issue in teacher preparation and professional education: the need to prepare educators to support the learning and development of culturally diverse students in schools and classrooms. Milner gives special attention to opportunity gaps that prevent students from succeeding inside and outside of schools, and he advances a new framework--op...

This revised and expanded second edition of Start Where You Are, But Don't Stay There focuses on a crucial issue in teacher preparation and professional education: the need to prepare educators to support the learning and development of culturally diverse students in schools and classrooms. Milner gives special attention to opportunity gaps that prevent students from succeeding inside and outside of schools, and he advances a new framework--op...

Career pathways (CP) has gained prominence as a strategy to ensure that high school students and displaced workers acquire the college and career readiness skills needed in a changing, globalized economy. In an effort to ensure future success for CP, Stephen F. Hamilton examines the School-to-Work (STW) movement of the 1980s and 1990s and explores how the lessons learned from that campaign's demise can pave the way for a CP program that endure...

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Schooling for Critical Consciousness addresses how schools can help Black and Latinx youth resist the negative effects of racial injustice and challenge its root causes. Scott Seider and Daren Graves draw on a four-year longitudinal study examining how five different mission-driven urban high schools foster critical consciousness among their students. The book presents vivid portraits of the schools as they implement various programs and pract...

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School innovation expert John B. Nash demonstrates how design thinking can be adapted successfully by busy school leaders seeking student-centered solutions to a range of challenges.

Transformational Learning in Community Colleges details the profound social and emotional change that nontraditional and historically underserved students undergo when they enter community college. Drawing on case study material and student observations, the book outlines the systematic supports that two-year institutions must put in place to help students achieve their educational and professional goals. The book offers guidance on how a rene...

Culturally and Linguistically Responsive Education provides a much-needed blueprint for how school leaders can leverage the power of collaborative learning to create more culturally and linguistically responsive schools. The book describes an innovative network of twenty preK-8 schools located across the United States that strive to address the barriers to inclusive education. The book shows how these schools transformed to better serve their ...

Provides a much-needed blueprint for how school leaders can leverage the power of collaborative learning to create more culturally and linguistically responsive schools. The book describes an innovative network of twenty preK-8 schools located across the United States striving to address the barriers to inclusive education.

Introduces a new paradigm and framework for career development focused on teaching skills that all students need to set long-term goals and experience post-secondary success. This book shows how educators can leverage the use of individual learning plans to help students identify their interests and create their own career pathways.

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In Science in the City, Bryan A. Brown examines how language and culture matter for effective science teaching. Given the realities of our multilingual and multicultural society, teachers must truly understand how issues of culture intersect with the fundamental principles of learning. The book illustrates how science education can flourish if it is connected to students' backgrounds, identities, language, and culture. The result is a classroo...

Offers an incisive guide to practitioner-led qualitative research. The authors make the case for "local knowledge generation" - inquiry-based, school-level research that can contextualize quantitative data, enrich insight, and guide leaders in making more effective decisions leading to sustainable organizational change.

Describes the phenomenon of unconscious racial bias and how it negatively affects the work of educators and students in schools. Through personal anecdotes and real-life scenarios, Unconscious Bias in Schools provides education leaders with an essential roadmap for addressing this issue directly.

Outlines a powerful argument about the importance of the school as an organisation in nurturing high quality teaching. Based on case studies conducted in fourteen high-poverty, urban schools, the book examines why some schools failed to make progress, while others achieved remarkable results.