Science is driven by the need to manage uncertainty-uncertainty about how to explain the world, but also how to represent the world in an investigation, what to measure, and how to convince peers to see what the scientist wants them to see. For children, uncertainty supports engagement with materials, more purposeful science practice, and deeper ......
2014 Winner of The Grawemeyer Award in Education The future of learning depends absolutely on the future of teaching. In this latest and most important collaboration, Andy Hargreaves and Michael Fullan show how the quality of teaching is captured in a compelling new idea: the professional capital of every teacher working together in every ......
Drawing on frameworks of teacher research and critical literacy, this volume documents the experiences of educators in New Mexico who participate in Teaching Out Loud-an intergenerational, professional development program that focuses on the creation and implementation of imaginative, critical curriculum with historically marginalized students. ......
Drawing on frameworks of teacher research and critical literacy, this volume documents the experiences of educators in New Mexico who participate in Teaching Out Loud-an intergenerational, professional development program that focuses on the creation and implementation of imaginative, critical curriculum with historically marginalized students. ......
Written in an accessible style for a broad audience, these essays are designed to be conversation starters about where and how we can best support public education. Throughout his extraordinary career, educational psychologist David Berliner visited hundreds of classrooms in multiple countries. After many such visits, he wrote short notes about ......
Written in an accessible style for a broad audience, these essays are designed to be conversation starters about where and how we can best support public education. Throughout his extraordinary career, educational psychologist David Berliner visited hundreds of classrooms in multiple countries. After many such visits, he wrote short notes about ......
One College's Path to Academic Success and Financial Stability
Discover how one public higher education institution was able to succeed despite the many obstacles and challenges that it faced. This is the story of how and why Baruch College of The City University of New York became a "positive outlier," overcoming serious financial constraints, physical space limitations, and other difficulties to be highly ......
One College's Path to Academic Success and Financial Stability
Discover how one public higher education institution was able to succeed despite the many obstacles and challenges that it faced. This is the story of how and why Baruch College of The City University of New York became a "positive outlier," overcoming serious financial constraints, physical space limitations, and other difficulties to be highly ......
How Public and Private Interests Can Reinvent Education for the Common Good
How public are America's public schools? They may be tax funded and free, but the effects of market-based policies, exclusionary governance, insufficient funding, and structural inequities impair schools' ability to prepare future citizens, workers, neighbors, and stewards of the planet. Gyurko offers a fresh look at the "publicness" of American ......
