Teaching and Learning
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Teaching Talent
A Visionary Framework for Human Capital in Education
Edited by Rachel E. Curtis and Judy Wurtzel, foreword by Michael F. Bennet, Senator from Colorado
Teaching Talent presents a framework for human capital development that draws on a two-year initiative by the Aspen Institute Education and Society Program to research sectors that have effective, well-developed human capital systems and point the way toward human capital innovations in public education.
New Teacher Mentoring
Hopes and Promise for Improving Teacher Effectiveness
Ellen Moir, Dara Barlin, Janet Gless, and Jan Miles
In this practical yet visionary book, Ellen Moir and her colleagues at the New Teacher Center review what current research suggests (and doesn’t) about the power of welldesigned mentoring programs to shape teacher and student outcomes.
Spotlight on Student Engagement, Motivation, and Achievement
Edited by Caroline T. Chauncey and Nancy Walser
Only when students feel engaged both socially and academically can schools and teachers lay the groundwork to motivate achievement. This volume, the fifth in the Harvard Education Letter Spotlight series, brings together fifteen seminal articles that examine research and practice on these complex and interrelated issues.
Manga High
Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School
By Michael Bitz, foreword by Françoise Mouly
Based on a four-year study, Manga High explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity in one of New York City’s largest high schools.
Alternative Routes to Teaching
Mapping the New Landscape of Teacher Education
Edited by Pam Grossman and Susanna Loeb
Alternative Routes to Teaching provides a thorough and dispassionate review of the research evidence on alternative certification. It takes readers beyond the simple dichotomies that have characterized the debate over alternative certification, encourages them to look carefully at the trade-offs implicit in any route into teaching, and suggests ways to “marry” the proven strengths of both traditional and alternative approaches.
Adolescents at School
Perspectives on Youth, Identity, and Education (Second Edition)
Edited by Michael Sadowski
A uniquely practical, insightful, and jargon-free volume, this new revised and expanded edition of the bestselling Adolescents at School points to ways to foster the success of every student in our schools and classrooms.
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.
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.
Teaching for Change
Addressing Issues of Difference in the College Classroom
Edited by Kathryn Geismar and Guitele Nicoleau
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.