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This work recognizes that we need qualitatively different school processes and learning methods. It is devoted to leaving students behind, readying culturally diverse students for their time, new standards of competitiveness, and the need for direction in local schools.

A guide to understanding inclusive practices in public education.

Janice M. Irvine offers not only the first comprehensive history of the culture wars over sex education but also an important examination of the politics of sexual speech in the United States. Exploring the clash between professional sex education advocates on the one hand and the politicized Christian Right on the other, Irvine demonstrates the crucial role that sexual speech plays in cultural politics. Examining a range of issues played out in living...

Speaking out against decades of injustice and challenging deficit perceptions of young learners and their families, It's Not About Grit pulls back the veil, revealing the social systems that marginalize and stigmatize mostly poor, urban students of color and their communities. At the same time, author Steven Goodman, founding executive director of NYC's highly acclaimed Educational Video Center (EVC) for nearly 35 years, shows the tremendous intelligence,...

Drawing on decades of research, policy, and practice, Jennifer A. O'Day and Marshall S. Smith show how strategies for pursuing educational quality and equal outcomes for all students can be linked, presenting both an ambitious idea the future of American education and a comprehensive theory of change for enacting that vision. The authors argue that systemic causes require systemic solutions. Analyzing the failures of past efforts to address and remedy...

"Few educators are as consistently thoughtful in words and deed as Tom Sergiovanni. In this book, Tom brings us back to the importance of face-to-face communities of educators who join together on behalf of students. And, importantly, he provides us examples of what such communities mean in practice. This is a wonderful book." --Vito Perrone, Graduate School of Education, Harvard University"Sergiovanni documents cases of schools that have successfully...