Supporting Black Pupils and Parents

Understanding and Improving Home-school Relations

By Lorna Cork

Drawing on her extensive teaching experience, Lorna Cork explores the day-to-day needs and expectations of black parents and their children in education. Exclusion rates of...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-34055-7 (Routledge)

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America's "Failing" Schools

How Parents and Teachers Can Cope With No Child Left Behind

By W. James Popham

Since June 2004, millions of parents and teachers across the United States have been receiving report cards in the mail alerting them that their local...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-95128-9 (Routledge)

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Teaching and Evaluating Writing in the Age of Computers and High-Stakes Testing

By Carl Whithaus

This book takes on a daunting task: How do writing teachers continue to work toward preparing students for academic and real-world communication situations, while faced...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-4800-7 (Routledge)

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Linking Reading Assessment to Instruction

An Application Worktext for Elementary Classroom Teachers

This worktext applies current theory to classroom practice by providing, in each chapter, a brief explanation of major concepts followed by guided practical experience in...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5059-8 (Routledge)

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Designing Performance Assessment Systems for Urban Teacher Preparation

Edited by Francine P. Peterman

Designing Performance Assessment Systems for Urban Teacher Preparation presents an argument for, and invites, critical examination of teacher preparation and assessment practices--in light of both...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5384-1 (Routledge)

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Culturally Relevant Schools

Creating Positive Workplace Relationships and Preventing Intergroup Differences

By Jean A. Madsen, Reitumetse Obakeng Mabokela

The authors provide teachers and school leaders concrete suggestions to address workplace relationships; to respond to intergroup conflict; to create positive exchanges among different ethnic...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-94997-2 (Routledge)

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Measurement and Research in the Accountability Era

Edited by Carol Anne Dwyer

The subject of accountability warrants thoughtful and dispassionate attention in today's educational environment. The accountability and school reform policies that are put in place today...

2005 | Hardback: 978-0-8058-5330-8 (Routledge)

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Vertically Moderated Standard Setting

A Special Issue of applied Measurement in Education

Edited by Gregory J. Cizek

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-9488-2 (Routledge)

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Teaching Social Foundations of Education

Contexts, Theories, and Issues

Edited by Dan W. Butin

This book, the first comprehensive, critical examination of the theory and pedagogy of the field of social foundations of education and its relevance and role within...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-8058-5146-5 (Routledge)

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Policy and Power in Inclusive Education

Values into practice

Edited by Melanie Nind, Jonathan Rix, Kieron Sheehy, Katy Simmons

The movement towards inclusive education is undoubtedly an international phenomenon, and it has resulted in the development of policy initiatives impacting on schools in all...

2005 | Paperback: 978-0-415-35210-9 (Routledge)

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