An astute analysis of how the US Individuals with Disabilities Education Act is enacted in K-12 schools and a clarion call for a shift away from perfunctory compliance and toward true equity In Beyond Compliance, Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides underscores the urgent need for change in how US schools implement the Individuals with ......
The Fragmentation of Education Governance and the Promise of CurriculumReform
Beyond Standards highlights the structural conditions that have undermined the success of the standards movement and challenges us to confront them. The book offers an impassioned argument about the ways that our decentralized educational systems undermine the pursuit of educational equity and excellence. Morgan Polikoff applies a wide array of ......
A transformative guidebook for K-12 school counselors, teachers, and administrators seeking to create affirming, equitable, and healing-centered environments for Black students In Beyond the Doll Tests, Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy draws on decades of expertise as an educator, school counselor, and leader in equity to deliver compelling insights ......
Revised and updated to address shifts in the climate of bullying in schools and online, this timely work suggests anti-bullying approaches that are concrete, practical, and grounded in research.
In this deeply insightful work, nationally renowned bullying expert Elizabeth Kandel Englander offers sensible ......
In this volume, 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 ......
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 fast-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 ......
Four Directions for Building Powerful School Culture and Student Success
The popular volume on the power of character development in the classroom now features new chapters on intellectual risk-taking and open-mindedness, plus student, teacher, and school leader reflections on the value of the practice Character Compass, Second Edition returns to three, high-performing urban schools in Boston to reassess their ......
Civil Rights and Federal Higher Education offers a renewed vision for higher education policy making, presenting an incisive analysis of the connections between educational politics and educational inequality. With a view toward the future, the editors assert that the thoughtful application of evidence-based solutions to complex policy problems ......
Clinical Simulations as Signature Pedagogy explores the use of live-actor simulations as an engaging training tool to better prepare educational professionals for school-wide challenges. In this volume, editors Benjamin H. Dotger and Kelly Chandler-Olcott present a persuasive overview of this effective method of professional development and show ......
