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What Really Matters for Struggling Readers: Designing Research-Based Programs
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Hide books by the same authorThe Teacher Wars: A History of America's Most Embattled Profession
Dana Goldstein · 350 pages
"A brilliant young scholar's history of 175 years of teaching in America shows that teachers have always borne the brunt of shifting, often impossible expectations. In other nations, public schools are one thread in a quilt that includes free universal child care, health care, and job training. Here, schools are the whole cloth. Today we look around the world at countries like Finland and South Ko
Words Their Way: Word Study for Phonics, Vocabulary, and Spelling Instruction, [Book, CD & DVD]
Donald R. Bear, Shane Templeton, Marcia Invernizzi, Francine Johnston · 433 pages
A Charlotte Mason Education: A Home Schooling How-To Manual
Catherine Levison · 90 pages
Igniting a Passion for Reading: Successful Strategies for Building Lifetime Readers
Steven L. Layne · 188 pages
Steven Layne shows teachers practical ways to engage and inspire readers from kindergarten through high school, to develop readers who are not only motivated to read great books, but also love reading in its own right. --from publisher description.
Hacking Your Education: Ditch the Lectures, Save Tens of Thousands, and Learn More Than Your Peers Ever Will
Dale J. Stephens
Dr. Montessori's Own Handbook
Maria Montessori · 121 pages
This short, illustrated guide to the use of Montessori classroom materials describes how to set up a "children's house"--An environment for learning where children can be their own masters. Frames, geometrical objects, colored numerical rods, and many other items are familiar features of any Montessori classroom, and Montessori explains how to use them with preschool children to stimulate their po
Savage Inequalities: Children in America's Schools
Jonathan Kozol · 262 pages
The Freedom Writers Diary
Erin Gruwell, Zlata Filipovic, The Freedom Writers · 292 pages
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students--whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse--Gruwell was the first person to treat them with dignity, to believe in their potential and help t
The Book Whisperer: Awakening the Inner Reader in Every Child
Donalyn Miller · 227 pages
Donalyn Miller says she has yet to meet a child she couldn't turn into a reader. No matter how far behind Miller's students might be when they reach her 6th grade classroom, they end up reading an average of 40 to 50 books a year. Miller's unconventional approach dispenses with drills and worksheets that make reading a chore. Instead, she helps students navigate the world of literature and gives t
The Well-Trained Mind: A Guide to Classical Education at Home
Susan Wise Bauer, Jessie Wise · 864 pages
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Education
John Taylor Gatto · 104 pages
The Read-Aloud Handbook
Jim Trelease · 387 pages
The classic handbook on reading aloud to children - revised and updatedFor more than two decades, millions of parents and educators have turned to Jim Trelease's beloved classic to help countless children become avid readers through awakening their imaginations and improving their language skills. Now this new edition of The Read-Aloud Handbook imparts the benefits, rewards, and importance of read
The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education
Diane Ravitch · 462 pages
Award-winning author, public intellectual, and former Assistant Secretary of Education Diane Ravitch critiques a lifetime's worth of school reforms and reveals the simple--yet difficult--truth about how we can create actual change in public schools.
Readicide: How Schools Are Killing Reading and What You Can Do About It
Kelly Gallagher · 160 pages
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel · 336 pages
To most of us, learning something "the hard way" implies wasted time and effort. Good teaching, we believe, should be creatively tailored to the different learning styles of students and should use strategies that make learning easier. Make It Stick turns fashionable ideas like these on their head. Drawing on recent discoveries in cognitive psychology and other disciplines, the authors offer concr
Teach Like a Champion: 49 Techniques that Put Students on the Path to College
Doug Lemov · 332 pages
Offers easy-to-apply ideas for becoming an outstanding teacher.
The Daily 5: fostering literacy independence in the elementary grades
Gail Boushey, Joan Moser
Teaching to Transgress: Education as the Practice of Freedom
bell hooks · 208 pages
In Teaching to Transgress bell hooks—writer, teacher, and insurgent black intellectual—writes about a new kind of education, *education as the practice of freedom*. Teaching students to "transgress" against racial, sexual and class boundaries in order to achieve the gift of freedom is, for hooks, the teacher's most important goal.
The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined
Salman Khan · 259 pages
"A free, world-class education for anyone, anywhere: this is the goal of the Khan Academy, a passion project that grew from an ex-hedge funder's online tutoring sessions with his niece, who was struggling with algebra, into a worldwide phenomenon. Today, millions have viewed and subscribed to the Khan Academy's YouTube videos, which have expanded to encompass nearly every conceivable subject. Li
How to Become a Straight-A Student
Cal Newport · 224 pages
Offers time-management strategies, tips on taking tests, techniques for writing essays better and faster, and self-assessment tests to help students analyze their study skills.
Why Don't Students Like School?: A Cognitive Scientist Answers Questions About How the Mind Works and What It Means for the Classroom
Daniel T. Willingham · 320 pages
Cognitive scientist Dan Willingham has focused his acclaimed research on the biological and cognitive basis of learning and has a deep understanding of the daily challenges faced by classroom teachers. This book will help teachers improve their practice by explaining how they and their students think and learn revealing the importance of story, emotion, memory, context, and routine in building kno
The Well-Educated Mind: A Guide to the Classical Education You Never Had
Susan Wise Bauer · 510 pages
"The enduring and engaging guide to educating yourself in the classical tradition."--Amazon.com.