Theory and Educational Research

Toward Critical Social Explanation

Edited by Jean Anyon

Most empirical researchers avoid the use of theory in their studies, providing data but little or no social explanation. Theoreticians, on the other hand, rarely...

Published July 3rd 2008 by Routledge.

A Student's Guide to Education Studies

Edited by Stephen Ward

Written specifically for students on Education Studies courses, yet also relevant for students on teacher training courses, A Student's Guide to Education Studies (orginally published...

Published June 26th 2008 by Routledge.

Handbook of Education Politics and Policy

Edited by Bruce Cooper, James Cibulka, Lance Fusarelli

Written by a mix of established and rising stars in school politics, policy, law, finance, and reform this comprehensive handbook provides a 3-part framework that...

Published June 24th 2008 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Reclaiming Education for Democracy

Thinking Beyond No Child Left Behind

By Paul Shaker, Elizabeth E. Heilman

Reclaiming Education for Democracy subjects the prophets and doctrines of educational neoliberalism to scrutiny in order to provide a rationale and vision for public education...

Published June 16th 2008 by Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

A Guide to School Attendance

By Ben Whitney

Improving school attendance remains a contentious topic and is a high priority for the DCFS, local authorities and schools. Thousands of sessions are missed every...

Published June 16th 2008 by David Fulton Publis.

Democracy, Lifelong Learning and the Learning Society

Active Citizenship in a Late Modern Age

By Peter Jarvis

This is a book with a difference: it produces a completely new perspective on lifelong learning and the learning society and locates them within humanity...

Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge.

The Impact of Reform Instruction on Student Mathematics Achievement

An Example of a Summative Evaluation of a Standards-Based Curriculum

By Thomas Romberg, Mary C. Shafer

Summarizing data derived from a four-year combined longitudinal/ cross-sectional comparative study of the implementation of one standards-based middle school curriculum program, Mathematics in Context, this...

Published June 10th 2008 by Routledge.

Telling Stories to Change the World

Global Voices on the Power of Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims

By Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, Kayhan Irani

Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for...

Published May 19th 2008 by Routledge.

Small Schools

Public School Reform Meets the Ownership Society

By Michael Klonsky, Susan Klonsky

When education activists in New York, Chicago, and other urban school districts in the 1980s began the small-schools movement, they envisioned a new kind of...

Published February 27th 2008 by Routledge.

Rightist Multiculturalism

Core Lessons on Neoconservative School Reform

By Kristen L. Buras

For nearly two decades, E. D. Hirsch’s book Cultural Literacy has provoked debate over whose knowledge should be taught in schools, embodying the culture wars...

Published February 12th 2008 by Routledge.