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    Understanding Standardized Testing and the Black

    Series series Contemporary Perspectives in Race and Ethnic Relations
    Filling in the Blanks is a book dedicated to helping policymakers, researchers, academics and teachers, better understand standardized testing and the Black-White achievement gap.This book provides a wealth of background information, as well as the most recent findings, about testing and measurement concepts essential to understanding standardized tests. The book then reviews theories and research ... Read more

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  • Race and Culturally Responsive Inquiry in Education

    Improving Research, Evaluation, and Assessment

    Series series Race and Education
    Race and Culturally Responsive Inquiry in Education examines how assumptions about race and culture have shaped US education research and the interpretation and implementation of its results.This ambitious volume sheds light on the detrimental effects of educational praxis and policies that have characterized communities of color and historically underserved communities as deficient. It reveals ... Read more

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  • African American Identity

    Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience

    Jas M. Sullivan and Ashraf M. Esmail’s African American Identity: Racial and Cultural Dimensions of the Black Experience is a collection which makes use of multiple perspectives across the social sciences to address complex issues of race and identity. The contributors tackle questions about what African American racial identity means, how we may go about quantifying it, what the factors are in ... Read more

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  • Qualitative Literacy

    A Guide to Evaluating Ethnographic and Interview Research

    Suppose you were given two qualitative studies: one is a piece of empirically sound social science and the other, though interesting and beautifully written, is not. How would you tell the difference? Qualitative Literacy presents criteria to assess qualitative research methods such as in-depth interviewing and participant observation. Qualitative research is indispensable to the study of ... Read more

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  • Student-Centered Leadership

    Series Book 15 - Jossey-Bass Leadership Library in Education
    Student-Centered Leadership offers a timely and thoughtful resource for school leaders who want to turn their ideals into action. Written by educational leadership expert Viviane Robinson, the book shows leaders how they can make a bigger difference to the quality of teaching and learning in their school and ultimately improve their students' performance.This book is based not on fad or fashion ... Read more

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  • Making Sense of Adult Learning

    Learning is an inseparable part of human experience. Understanding how adults learn and applying that expertise to practical everyday situations and relationships opens the window on a broader understanding of the capacity of the human mind.Dorothy MacKeracher's Making Sense of Adult Learning was first published in 1996, and was acclaimed for its readability and value as a reference tool. For the ... Read more

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  • Culturally Responsive Teaching and The Brain

    Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students

    A bold, brain-based teaching approach to culturally responsive instructionThe achievement gap remains a stubborn problem for educators of culturally and linguistically diverse students. With the introduction of the rigorous Common Core State Standards, diverse classrooms need a proven framework for optimizing student engagement and facilitating deeper learningCulturally responsive pedagogy has ... Read more

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  • Becoming a High Expectation Teacher

    Raising the bar

    We constantly hear cries from politicians for teachers to have high expectations. But what this means in practical terms is never spelled out. Simply deciding that as a teacher you will expect all your students to achieve more than other classes you have taught in the same school, is not going to translate automatically into enhanced achievement for students.Becoming a High Expectation Teacher is ... Read more

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  • Curriculum, Syllabus Design and Equity

    A Primer and Model

    Curriculum scholars and teachers working for social justice and equity have been caught up in acrimonious and polarizing political debates over content, ideology, and disciplinary knowledge. At the forefront in cutting through these debates and addressing the practical questions involved, this book is distinctive in looking to the technical form of the curriculum rather than its content for ... Read more

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  • Learning to Change Lives

    The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development Approach

    The Strategies and Skills Learning and Development (SSLD) system is an action-oriented model for enabling clients in social work, health, mental health, and human services settings to address their needs and life goals. In Learning to Change Lives, author A. Ka Tat Tsang introduces SSLD’s powerful framework and practice, which has been developed based on three decades of experience in ... Read more

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  • The Adult Learner

    The Definitive Classic in Adult Education and Human Resource Development

    How do you tailor education to the learning needs of adults? Do they learn differently from children? How does their life experience inform their learning processes? These were the questions at the heart of Malcolm Knowles’ pioneering theory of andragogy which transformed education theory in the 1970s. The resulting principles of a self-directed, experiential, problem-centred approach to learning ... Read more

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