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  • The Faith of a Writer

    Life, Craft, Art

    A tribute to the brilliant craftsmanship of one of our most distinguished writers, providing valuable insight into her inspiration and her methodJoyce Carol Oates is widely regarded as one of America's greatest contemporary literary figures. Having written in a number of genres -- prose, poetry, personal and critical essays, as well as plays -- she is an artist ideally suited to answer essential ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Applied Psychometrics using SPSS and AMOS

    The book will be designed primarily for graduate students (or advanced undergraduates) who are learning psychometrics, as well as professionals in the field who need a reference for use in their practice. We would assume that users have some basic knowledge of using SPSS to read data and conduct basic analyses (e.g., descriptive statistics, frequency distributions). In addition, the reader should ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • A Failure of Nerve

    Leadership in the Age of the Quick Fix (10th Anniversary, Revised Edition)

    An invitation and guide for leaders “to cast a courageous and imaginative vision, to lead resiliently, and to be present and steady in times of deep anxiety.”Ed Friedman’s genius was to see the individual in the family in the larger group, bringing the wisdom of his experience as a therapist and rabbi to the field of organizational leadership.A timeless bestseller, A Failure of Nerve still ... Read more

    $24.99 USD $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Idea of the University

    Contemporary Perspectives

    Series Book 18 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: Contemporary Perspectives, Volume 2 is a companion to The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1, which presents readings from the major texts on the idea of the university over the last two hundred years. This volume consists of essays from the leading contemporary scholars of the university across the world. The essays examine ideas of the university that lie ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Welsh Grammar You Really Need to Know: Teach Yourself

    Comprehensive and clear explanations of key grammar patterns and structures arereinforced and contextualized through authentic materials. You will not onlylearn how to construct grammar correctly, but when and where to use it so yousound natural and appropriate. Welsh Grammar You Really Need to Know will helpyou gain the intuition you need to become a confident communicator in your newlanguage. ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Assistant Coach's Guide to Coaching

    Coaching Mastery

    by Scott Rosberg ...
    Series series Coaching Mastery
    Assistant coaches are the unsung heroes of any team. All too often, their impact and importance go unnoticed. While head coaches receive the majority of the attention, assistant coaches are right there—side by side with their head coaches—helping to guide their teams to the success they seek. Most head coaches fully understand how fortunate they are to have great assistants on their staffs. They ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Grading for Equity

    What It Is, Why It Matters, and How It Can Transform Schools and Classrooms

    by Joe Feldman ...
    Raise standards and improve learning for all students through equitable gradingGrading–one of the most important responsibilities of teachers with major implications for students’ academic and life trajectories–is ironically also among the most enigmatic and frequently avoided topics in education. Although most teachers sense that common grading practices are often ineffective, there is limited ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Learning in Public

    Lessons for a Racially Divided America from My Daughter's School

    This "provocative and personally searching"memoir follows one mother's story of enrolling her daughter in a local public school (San Francisco Chronicle), and the surprising, necessary lessons she learned with her neighbors.From the time Courtney E. Martin strapped her daughter, Maya, to her chest for long walks, she was curious about Emerson Elementary, a public school down the street from her ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Intentional Leadership

    12 Lenses for Focusing Strengths, Managing Weaknesses, and Achieving Your Purpose

    Empowered by the knowledge that employees are influenced by their direct supervisor more than any other leader in a company, author Jane A. G. Kise advocates intentional leadership, a style of leading that focuses on how to lead, not just what to accomplish. Learn to concentrate on your strengths and manage your professional weaknesses.Benefits:Identify your priorities and consider how they relate ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies

    Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World

    Edited by Django Paris, H. Samy Alim ...
    Series series Language and Literacy Series
    Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies raises fundamental questions about the purpose of schooling in changing societies. Bringing together an intergenerational group of prominent educators and researchers, this volume engages and extends the concept of culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP)—teaching that perpetuates and fosters linguistic, literate, and cultural pluralism as part of schooling for ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The New Political Economy of Urban Education

    Neoliberalism, Race, and the Right to the City

    Series series Critical Social Thought
    Urban education and its contexts have changed in powerful ways. Old paradigms are being eclipsed by global forces of privatization and markets and new articulations of race, class, and urban space. These factors and more set the stage for Pauline Lipman's insightful analysis of the relationship between education policy and the neoliberal economic, political, and ideological processes that are ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Microaggression Theory

    Influence and Implications

    Get to know the sociopolitical context behind microaggressionsMicroaggressions are brief, everyday exchanges that send denigrating messages to certain individuals because of their group membership (e.g., race, gender, culture, religion, social class, sexual orientation, etc.). These daily, common manifestations of aggression leave many people feeling vulnerable, targeted, angry, and afraid. How ... Read more

    $53.00 USD

  • The Prize

    Who's In Charge of America's Schools?

    This*New York Times* bestseller chronicles how Mark Zuckerberg, Chris Christie, and Cory Booker tried—and failed—to reform education in Newark, NJ.In September of 2010, billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg went on Oprah to announce a pledge of $100 million to transform the downtrodden schools of Newark, New Jersey. There by his side were the city’s Democratic mayor, Cory Booker, and the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Mission High

    One School, How Experts Tried to Fail It, and the Students and Teachers Who Made It Triumph

    "This book is a godsend a moving portrait for anyone wanting to go beyond the simplified labels and metrics and really understand an urban high school, and its highly individual, resilient, eager and brilliant students and educators." -- Dave Eggers, co-founder, 826 National and ScholarMatchDarrell is a reflective, brilliant young man, who never thought of himself as a good student. He always ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Biliteracy from the Start

    Literacy Squared in Action

    Biliteracy from the Start: Literacy Squared in Action shows bilingual education teachers, administrators, and leadership teams how to plan, implement, monitor, and strengthen biliteracy instruction that builds on students’ linguistic resources in two languages, beginning in kindergarten. Escamilla and her team present a holistic biliteracy framework that is at the heart of their action-oriented ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Weaving an Otherwise

    In-Relations Methodological Practice

    Edited by Amanda Tachine, Z Nicolazzo ...
    Who (and what) are you bearing witness to (and for) through your research? When you witness, what claims are you making about who and what matters? What does your research forget, and does it do it on purpose?This book reconceptualizes qualitative research as an in-relations process, one that is centered on, fully concerned with, and lifts up those who have been and continue to be dispossessed, ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • Stoicism and the Art of Happiness

    Practical wisdom for everyday life: embrace perseverance, strength and happiness with stoic philosophy

    The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition - insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in 301 BC, endured as an active movement for almost 500 years, and contributions from dazzling minds such as Cicero, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius helped create a body of thought with an extraordinary goal ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Disillusioned

    Five Families and the Unraveling of America's Suburbs

    **"Astonishingly important.” —Alex Kotlowitz, The AtlanticThrough the stories of five American families, a masterful and timely exploration of how hope, history, and racial denial collide in the suburbs and their schools**Outside Atlanta, a middle-class Black family faces off with a school system seemingly bent on punishing their teenage son. North of Dallas, a conservative white family relocates ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Brave Learner

    Finding Everyday Magic in Homeschool, Learning, and Life

    by Julie Bogart ...
    Publishers Weekly bestseller · A joyful and accessible homeschool guide to making learning a part of everyday lifeParents who are deeply invested in their children's education can be hard on themselves and their kids. When exhausted parents are living the day-to-day grind, it can seem impossible to muster enough energy to make learning fun or interesting. How do parents nurture a love of learning ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Radical Possibilities

    Public Policy, Urban Education, and A New Social Movement

    by Jean Anyon ...
    Series series Critical Social Thought
    The core argument of Jean Anyon’s classic Radical Possibilities is deceptively simple: if we do not direct our attention to the ways in which federal and metropolitan policies maintain the poverty that plagues communities in American cities, urban school reform as currently conceived is doomed to fail. With every chapter thoroughly revised and updated, this edition picks up where the 2005 ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • A Teacher's Guide to Adapted Physical Education

    Including Students With Disabilities in Sports and Recreation, Fourth Edition

    A healthy, active lifestyle for all students: That's the promise of physical education, and the goal of this comprehensive textbook. Now in a thoroughly updated fourth edition, this text prepares current and future PE teachers to lead welcoming, inclusive classes where every student participates, makes friends, and learns new skills and values. K–12 physical educators will get cutting-edge ... Read more

    $50.99 USD

  • The Idea of the University

    A Reader, Volume 1

    Series Book 17 - Global Studies in Education
    The Idea of the University: A Reader, Volume 1 is a unique compilation of selected works of the major thinkers who have contributed to the discourse on the idea of the university in the German, English, American and French traditions, dating from the establishment of the University of Berlin in 1810. Readings include excerpts from Kant and Humboldt in the German tradition of Bildung through to ... Read more

    $83.99 USD

  • A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door

    The Dismantling of Public Education and the Future of School

    A trenchant analysis of how public education is being destroyed in overt and deceptive ways—and how to fight backIn the “vigorous, well-informed” (Kirkus Reviews) A Wolf at the Schoolhouse Door, the co-hosts of the popular education podcast Have You Heard expose the potent network of conservative elected officials, advocacy groups, funders, and think tanks that are pushing a radical vision to do ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Country of the Blind

    Mandarin Companion Graded Readers: Level 1, Simplified Chinese Edition

    Series Book 1 - Mandarin Companion
    Mandarin Companion: New graded readers for a new generation of Chinese learners. Now you can read book in Chinese that are fun and accelerate your language learning. Every book in the Mandarin Companion series is carefully written to use characters, words, and grammar that a learner is likely to know.Level 1 is written using approximately 300 unique Chinese characters and intended for Chinese ... Read more

    $7.99 USD