Lisa Delpit makes the case that African-American students do not achieve to their potential because they're hindered by "society's deeply ingrained bias of equating blackness with inferiority," stereotype threat, and curriculum that is not meaningful to them.
To build students' skills and interest in writing, author Kelly Gallagher argues, teachers need to move away from the "prescribed school writing discourses" and demonstrate the real-world purposes of written composition.
Experts on adolescents' online behavior, Sameer Hinduja and Justin W. Patchin, contend that school staff can have a heavy hand in decreasing and alleviating the effects of cyberbullying—a form of adolescent aggression that can have devastating consequences. Join us as we dig into their research and discuss how to handle this pervasive educational problem.
In his new book, Mike Schmoker makes a bracing case for a back-to-basics approach to education, calling on educators to abandon ever-changing "fads, programs, and innovations," and zero in on what he calls the "three essential elements" of high-quality instruction.
In her latest book, author and documentarian Kathleen Cushman takes an inventive approach to exploring the question of how educators can better engage and inspire students: She asks kids.
Against the backdrop of the immigration debate, author Helen Thorpe’s book Just Like Us follows four young women from Mexico from their Denver high school, through college, and beyond.
In The Hardest Questions Aren't on the Test, Linda F. Nathan argues that the key to a school’s success lies in directly investigating and addressing the often difficult questions that students and school communities face.
Anthony Rebora, June 7, 2010
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