Democracy and Education has been the leading voice of the nineties for engaged teaching. Teaching for Social Justice collects the best of the journal.

Featuring a unique mix of hands-on, historical, and inspirational writings, the topics covered include education through social action, writing and community building, and adult literacy. An extensive "teacher file" and resource section survey teaching tools from curricula to activist-oriented websites. Next in The New Press's award-winning education publishing program, Teaching for Social Justice engages pare...
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What can 21st century educators learn from the example of a 19th century president? In this intriguing and insightful book, Harvey Alvy and Pam Robbins show how the legacy of Abraham Lincoln can guide today's education leaders--principals, teachers, superintendents, and others--as they tackle large-scale challenges, such as closing the achievement gap, and everyday issues, such as communicating with constituents. The authors identify 10 qualities, attributes, and skills that help to explain Lincoln's effectiveness, despite seemingly insurmountable odds:

1. Implementing and sustai...
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In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before. They are le...
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In a handful of nations, virtually all children are learning to make complex arguments and solve problems they've never seen before. They are le...
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What does it takefor new readers to succeed? It takes 1.200 hours of exposure, instruction and practice, practice, practice.

Patrick knows all about practice. He learned that in music school. But a job in a professional orchestra hasn't happened. With a son ready to begin school, something has to change.

When the jaded principal of the neighborhood school presses Patrick to get involved, no one could predict the outcome. Guided by a flamboyant former professor, a salty science instructor, and a discouraged kindergarten teacher, Patrick discovers what is most im...
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"Education runs on lies. That's probably not what you'd expect from a former Secretary of Education, but it's the truth." So opens Arne Duncan's How Schools Work, although the title could just as easily be How American Schools Work for Some, Not for Others, and Only Now and Then for Kids.

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In a reporting tour de force, award-winning journalist Steven Brill takes an uncompromising look at the adults who are fighting over America's failure to educate its children--and points the way to reversing that failure.

Brill not only takes us inside their roller-coaster battle...
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