The Case Against Homework: How Homework Is Hurting Our Children and What We Can Do About It
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| Author | Mary Griffith |
| ISBN | 0761512764 |
I found this in the anemic "parenting" section of my new library. It's a lean little volume, mostly of extended quotes from self-titled "unschooling" parents. The technology is excruciatingly outdated (just go to AOL Member home to join a list!) circa 1997, and even though it calls itself a "handbook"...
| Author | Marie Sherlock |
| ISBN | 0609809016 |
Raising children ranks as one of life’s most rewarding adventures. Yet between Mom and Dad working full-time jobs, endless carpooling of overscheduled youngsters, and the never-ending pressures to buy and consume, family life can be incredibly—needlessly—complex. What if you could find...
| Author | Katherine Tarbox |
| ISBN | 0452282535 |
Katherine Tarbox was thirteen when she met twenty-three-year-old "Mark" in an online chat room. A top student, and nationally ranked swimmer, attending an elite school in an affluent Connecticut town, Katie was also a lonely and self-conscious eighth-grader who craved the attention her workaholic...
| Author | Pam Allyn |
| ISBN | 1583333347 |
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The books to read aloud to children at the important moments in their lives.
In What to Read When, award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for...
| Author | Daniel Moulthrop |
| ISBN | 1565849558 |
Do teachers really have it easy?
"Teaching would be the greatest job in the world-if money didn't matter."
"I told the girl I was dating I wouldn't mind teaching and she said, 'Don't waste your talent on that.' "
"The schizophrenia is an issue: are you a professional or are you not?"
"I...
| Author | Nancie Atwell |
| ISBN | 0867095067 |
In Lessons That Change Writers, Nancie has narrowed and deepened her conversation with teachers, to focus on the minilesson as a vehicle for helping students improve their writing. She shares over a hundred of these writing lessons which are described by her students as "the best of the best." The lessons...
| Author | Thomas Newkirk |
| ISBN | 0325021236 |
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"Holding On to Good Ideas in a Time of Bad Ones is my new favorite book about how to live as a teacher. Finishing it, I experienced what I can only describe as a state of grace-moved, renewed, and grateful...
| Author | Alfie Kohn |
| ISBN | 0738210854 |
Death and taxes come later; what seems inevitable for children is the idea that, after spending the day at school, they must then complete more academic assignments at home. The predictable results: stress and conflict, frustration and exhaustion. Parents respond by reassuring themselves that...
| Author | Linda Perlstein |
| ISBN | 0805080821 |
The pressure is on at schools across America. In recent years, reforms such as No Child Left Behind have created a new vision of education that emphasizes provable results, uniformity, and greater attention for floundering students. Schools are expected to behave more like businesses and judged...
Small Victories: The Real World of a Teacher, Her Students, and Their High School
| Author | Samuel G. Freedman |
| ISBN | 0060920874 |
Small Victories is Samuel Freedman's remarkable story of life on the front lines in the sort of high school that seems like a disaster with walls--old, urban, overcrowded, and overwhelmingly minority. Seaward Park High School, on Manhattan's Lower East Side, has been ranked among the worst 10 percent...
| Author | David A. Sousa |
| ISBN | 1412936616 |
Apply the newest brain research to enhance all students' learning
Educational neuroscience consultant David A. Sousa continues his tradition of translating new findings into effective classroom strategies and activities in this updated version of his bestselling text. This fifth edition...
| Author | Richard L. Allington |
| ISBN | 0205443249 |
Have you noticed that every new educational method, material and program is "research based" or "scientific"? Everything these days is the new miracle that will transform your classroom into the model learning environment. Thank God for Richard Allington! He sorts through years and years of research...
It's the deadliest combination going; bullies who terrorize, bullied kids who are afraid to tell, bystanders who watch, and adults who see the incidents as a normal part of childhood. All it takes to understand that this is a recipe for tragedy is a glance at headlines across the country.
In...
Fair Isn't Always Equal: Assessing Grading in the Differentiated Classroom
| Author | Rick Wormeli |
| ISBN | 1571104240 |
Differentiated instruction is a nice idea, but what happens when it comes to assessing and grading students? What's both fair and leads to real student learning?
Fair Isn't Always Equal answers that question and much more. Rick Wormeli offers the latest research and common sense thinking...
| Author | Marybeth Hicks |
| ISBN | 0425221563 |
A breakthrough parenting book that redefines the meaning of ?geek and inspires parents to free themselves and their kids from the ?culture of cool.?
In a world of superficial values, peer pressure, and out-of-control consumerism, the world needs more GEEKs: Genuine, Enthusiastic, Empowered...
| Author | Denise Clark Pope |
| ISBN | 0300098332 |
This book offers a revealing—and troubling—view of today’s high school students and the ways they pursue high grades and success. Veteran teacher Denise Pope follows five highly regarded students through a school year and discovers that these young people believe getting ahead requires...
Lunch Lessons: Changing the Way We Feed Our Children
| Author | Ann Cooper |
| ISBN | 0060783699 |
Remember how simple school lunches used to be? You'd have something from every major food group, run around the playground for a while, and you looked and felt fine. But today it's not so simple. Schools are actually feeding the American crisis of childhood obesity and malnutrition. Most cafeterias...
| Author | Clark Aldrich |
| ISBN | 1608321169 |
While most schools continue to resist change, homeschooling families are abandoning the K-12 system and rediscovering what childhood education means. They are identifying new methods and goals that are powerful, born of common sense, and incompatible with today's schools. The author, education...
Farley's book purports to explore the seamy underbelly of the US standardized testing industry--to expose the lies, corruption, and just general scandalous behavior that pervades and supports it, and that apparently nobody has known about before now. But as Lynch proved in Blue Velvet, and as DFW...
| Author | Leslie Baldacci |
| ISBN | 0071417354 |
A respected journalist turned-teacher reveals what's really happening in America's schools
In 1999, Chicago Sun-Times veteran Leslie Baldacci left her prestigious, twenty-five year career to teach at a public school in one of Chicago's roughest South Side neighborhoods.
As...
Marriable: Taking the Desperate Out of Dating
| Author | Hayley DiMarco |
| ISBN | 0800730836 |
If I had paid more than 75 cents for this book, I would have wanted my money back. There are a few tiny nuggets of truth in it, but this book is basically a slightly Christianized version of "The Rules." It buries insulting and demeaning advice under a cutesy, image-heavy presentation. This goes for both...
| Author | Kathleen Cushman |
| ISBN | 1565849965 |
Since its initial publication in hardcover in 2003, Fires in the Bathroom has been through multiple printings and received the attention of teachers across the country. Now in paperback, Kathleen Cushman's groundbreaking book offers original insights into teaching teenagers in today's hard-pressed...
