Teaching and Learning

Adolescent Literacy
A Special Issue of the Harvard Educational Review

The Harvard Educational Review Special Issue on Adolescent Literacy examines key issues and debates in the adolescent literacy crisis in an effort to move toward consensus around future research agendas and best practices. Available March 2008.

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"It's Being Done"
Academic Success in Unexpected Schools

By Karin Chenoweth

This straightforward and inspiring book takes readers into schools where educators believe—and prove—that all children, even those considered “hard-to-teach,” can learn to high standards.

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Online Professional Development for Teachers
Emerging Models and Methods

Edited by Chris Dede

In Online Professional Development for Teachers, the authors look closely at exemplary online professional development programs, compare them carefully with one another, and draw helpful conclusions about them--both for those who develop online programs and for teachers and administrators in search of professional development programs that make a difference.

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New Directions in Special Education
Eliminating Ableism in Policy and Practice

By Thomas Hehir

A comprehensive study that is also practical and realistic, New Directions in Special Education outlines principles for decisionmaking about special education at every level—from the family to the classroom, school, and district—and for state and federal policy.

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Understanding Youth
Adolescent Development for Educators

By Michael J. Nakkula and Eric Toshalis

Adolescent development research and theory have tremendous potential to inform the work of high school teachers, counselors, and administrators. Understanding Youth bridges the gap between adolescent development theory and practice. Nakkula and Toshalis explore how factors such as social class, peer and adult relationships, gender norms, and the media help to shape adolescents’ sense of themselves and their future expectations and aspirations.

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Teaching for Change
Addressing Issues of Difference in the College Classroom

Edited by Kathryn Geismar and Guitele Nicoleau

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Class Acts
Teachers Reflect on Their Own Classroom Practice

Edited by Irene Hall, Carolyn H. Campbell, and Edward J. Miech

In this remarkable collection of articles, teachers reflect on the complex worlds of their classrooms to gain a better understanding of their students, themselves, and the act of teaching.

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Teaching Immigrant and Second-Language Students
Strategies for Success

Edited by Michael Sadowski

Teaching Immigrant and Second-Language Students draws on the work of teachers, administrators, and researchers to identify the practices that reach diverse students most effectively.

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The Complex World of Teaching
Perspectives from Theory and Practice

Edited by Ethan Mintz and John T. Yun

In this collection of the best writing on teaching and teachers from the Harvard Educational Review, authors discuss the multiple demands, distractions, desires, and dilemmas that teachers face in their daily work.

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The Digital Classroom
How Technology Is Changing the Way We Teach and Learn

Edited by David T. Gordon

This book features more than 25 articles and essays that discuss the rewards and challenges of integrating technology into schools, as well as short editorials from technology experts, educators, and cultural critics.

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