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Argues for an end to the outmoded industrial educational system and proposes a highly personalized, organic approach that draws on technological and professional resources to engage all students, develop their love of learning, and enable them to face the challenges of the twenty-first century.
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English
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"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 Korea, whose students consistently outscore Americans...
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Beacon Press
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English
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Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life's work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives...
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Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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"In Reimagining the Classroom: Creating New Learning Spaces and Connecting with the World, renowned educator Dr. Theodore Richards identifies the flaws and fissures in traditional approaches to teaching and learning, inspiring many to consider radical change. Dr. Richards takes a critical look at our education and reveals how impoverished our lives--and the lives of our children--have become. Our children are the pathway to reimagining our world and...
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[Dr. Ian Roberts]
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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Radical empathy manifests itself when you recognize that you do not have to go to happy hour or drink coffee with someone in order to understand their point of view and work with them. In fact, some of the most productive leaders focus less on social goals and understand that there will be variances in lived experiences but we must still be willing to work with people and help to leverage their unique perspectives in order to achieve better outcomes...
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Penguin
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"A call to action that pulls together all of Sir Ken Robinson's key messages and philosophies, and that challenges and empowers readers to re-imagine our world, and our systems, for the better. Sir Ken Robinson changed the lives of millions of people. The embodiment of the prestigious TED conference, his TED Talks are watched an average of 17,000 times a day - a figure that Chris Anderson, Head of TED, says is the equivalent of selling out the Millennium...
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Regnery Gateway
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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Should we stay or should we go? Millions of parents with children in public schools can't believe they're asking this question. But they are. And you should be asking it too. Almost overnight, America's public schools have become morally toxic. And they are especially poisonous for the hearts and minds of children from religious families of every faith--ordinary families who value traditional morality and plain old common sense. Parents' first duty...
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W. W. Norton & Company, Independent Publishers Since 1923
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Seven key principles from Finland for building a culture of trust in schools around the world. In the spring of 2018, thousands of teachers across the United States -- in states like Oklahoma, Kentucky, and Arizona -- walked off their jobs while calling for higher wages and better working conditions. Ultimately, these American educators trumpeted a simple request: treat us like professionals. Teachers in many other countries feel the same way as their...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"The United States is in the midst of a profound transformation the likes of which hasn't been seen since the Industrial Revolution, when America's classical colleges adapted to meet the needs of an emerging industrial economy. Today, as the world shifts to an increasingly interconnected knowledge economy, the intersecting forces of technological innovation, globalization, and demographic change create vast new challenges, opportunities, and uncertainties....
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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Addresses the failures and consequences of America's early education system, advocating for a shared knowledge curriculum that provides an educational foundation for all students to strengthen American unity, identity, and democracy.
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"The author delves into a promising mystery, challenging critics of public schools in America: Why did student learning climb for two decades in Los Angeles, which has the nation's second-largest public school district? The author discovers a colorful and pluralist politics of the city that sparked a variety of institutional reforms and yielded gains for students and teachers alike"--
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W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
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"Mindful awareness practices to help teachers recognize and regulate emotional reactivity in their classrooms. Teaching is one of the most rewarding professions, but also one of the most demanding. This book offers simple, ready-to-use, and evidence-proven mindfulness techniques to help educators manage the stresses of the classroom, cultivate an exceptional learning environment, and revitalize both their teaching and their students' knowledge acquisition....
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New Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
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English
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"In an entirely fresh take on school reform, business journalist and bestselling author Andrea Gabor argues that Bill Gates, Eli Broad, and other leaders of the prevailing education-reform movement have borrowed all the wrong lessons from the business world. After the Education Wars explains how the market-based measures and carrot-and-stick incentives informing today's reforms are out of sync with the nurturing culture that good schools foster and--contrary...
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