Source Books on Education
Literacy Today: New Standards Across the Curriculum
1st Edition
By Dennis Adams, Mary Hamm
December 01, 1999
This book defines literacy broadly as it explores concepts within core subjects and shows how to make standards-based literacy the goal and outcome of school reform. It imagines a future digital medium where educational technology is worthy of the spirit our children bring to it. Classrooms and ...
African American Scenebook
1st Edition
Edited
By Kathryn Ervin, Ethel P. Walker
September 01, 1999
Kathryn Ervin and Ethel Pitts Walker have compiled a delicately balanced and impeccably coherent anthology of some of the best scenes from the past sixty years of African American theatre. Each scene subtly articulates African American culture in a Western frame and explores universal themes ...
Secondary Schools and Cooperative Learning: Theories, Models, and Strategies
1st Edition
Edited
By Jon E. Pedersen, Jon E. Pedersen, Annette D. Digby, Annette D. Digby
January 01, 1995
Original essays by noted scholars explore cooperative learning, curriculum development, and teaching strategies. Focusing on grades 9 through 12, the volume first emphasizes theories underlying the use of selected cooperative learning strategies in secondary schools and then examines strategies and...
Project Head Start: Models and Strategies for the Twenty-First Century
1st Edition
By Ura Jean Oyemade Bailey, Valora Washington
December 01, 1994
Following in the footsteps of Project Head Start: Past, Present and Future Trends in the Context of Family Needs (Garland, 1987) this new work addresses current and future needs of young children and their families. A bibliography and index are included....
Teaching English as a Second Language: A Resource Guide
1st Edition
By Angela L. Carrasquillo
March 01, 1994
First Published in 1994. Educators will welcome this cohesive and comprehensive volume on the research and practice of teaching English as a second language (TESOL). The author, director of the TESOL program at Fordham University Graduate School of Education, provides a holistic view of the ...
Instrumentation in Education: An Anthology
1st Edition
By Lloyd Bishop, Paula E. Lester
May 01, 1993
Utilizing four broad categories (e.g., organizational analysis) containing 26 secondary areas, the anthology gives researchers and school administrators easy access to existing evaluative instrument types. A critique of each assessment tool is presented, along with comprehensive bibliographies. ...
Teaching Science to Children: Second Edition
1st Edition
By Mary D. Iatridis, Miriam Maracek
March 01, 1993
The past five years have witnessed a proliferation of books on science education for young children. The second edition of this highly regarded work updates original material on textbooks, activities books and science for the special child. Miriam Maracek's new chapter on the role of children's ...
Telecommunications: A Handbook for Educators
1st Edition
By Resa Azarmsa
March 01, 1993
The objective of this book is to provide a comprehensive introduction to telecommunications and their applications in teaching and learning. It contains up-to-date information about telecommunications, including the latest hardware and software. It discusses the most recent developments in computer...