Morgan & Beckett's Education Selections

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BEYOND TECHNOLOGY: CHILDREN'S LEARNING IN THE AGE OF DIGITAL CULTURE
•    AUTHOR: BUCKINGHAM, DAVID.
•    PUBLISHER: POLITY PRESS
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: LB1028.43
•    $64.95 CLOTH (209 P.)
•    ISBN: 0745638805
•    ISBN-13: 9780745638805
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Neither utopian nor dystopian, Buckingham argues that education needs to bridge the gap between the media-rich outside world & classroom experience. Focuses on the needs to go beyond superficial solutions and to equip learners with digital literacy.

CHARTER SCHOOL OUTCOMES; ED. BY MARK BERENDS
•    PUBLISHER: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: LB2806.36.C518 2007
•    $125.00 CLOTH (305 P.)
•    ISBN: 0805862218
•    ISBN-13: 9780805862218
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These interdisciplinary essays discuss the development and results of the K-12 charter schools.

CHILDREN AT PLAY: AN AMERICAN HISTORY
•    AUTHOR: CHUDACOFF, HOWARD P.
•    PUBLISHER: NEW YORK UNIVERSITY PRESS
•    CONTENT LEVEL: GEN-AC
•    LC CLASS: HQ792.U5C46 2007
•    $27.95 CLOTH (269 P.)
•    ISBN: 0814716644
•    ISBN-13: 9780814716649
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History of children's play from the 1600s to today looks at children's viewpoints, parenting expectations, and findings of social scientists, and discusses current state of children's play.

CLINICAL APPROACHES TO EMERGENT LITERACY INTERVENTION; ED. BY LAURA M. JUSTICE
•    PUBLISHER: PLURAL PUBLISHING
•    CONTENT LEVEL: PROF
•    LC CLASS: LB1139.5.R43J87 2006
•    $55.00 PAPER (452 P.)
•    ISBN: 1597560928
•    ISBN-13: 9781597560924
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Practical advice and foundational information for both students and practitioners. Aimed at speech-language pathologists, it is also useful for reading specialists, literacy coaches, special educators, early childhood teachers, and psychologists.

COSMOPOLITANISM AND THE AGE OF SCHOOL REFORM: SCIENCE, EDUCATION, AND MAKING SOCIETY BY MAKING THE CHILD
•    AUTHOR: POPKEWITZ, THOMAS S.
•    PUBLISHER: ROUTLEDGE
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: LC71.P5956 2007
•    $125.00 CLOTH (220 P.)
•    ISBN: 0415958148
•    ISBN-13: 9780415958141
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The author examines principles of education organized in the early 20th century and contemporary reforms in context of the philosophy of cosmopolitanism.

CREATING CRITICAL CLASSROOMS: K-8 READING AND WRITING WITH AN EDGE
•    AUTHOR: LEWISON, MITZI.
•    PUBLISHER: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM
•    CONTENT LEVEL: PROF
•    LC CLASS: LB1576.L52 2008
•    $39.95 PAPER (360 P.)
•    ISBN: 0805862315
•    ISBN-13: 9780805862317
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This guidebook provides theoretical considerations, practical activities, and ideas for teaching children in elementary through middle school to use literacy skills to question and understand their societal contexts.

DECONSTRUCTING SPECIAL EDUCATION AND CONSTRUCTING INCLUSION
•    AUTHOR: THOMAS, GARY, 1950-
•    PUBLISHER: OPEN UNIVERSITY
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: LC1200
•    $136.95 CLOTH (184 P.)
•    ISBN: 0335223702
•    ISBN-13: 9780335223701
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This book makes critical examination of the intellectual foundations of special education and provides a rationale for inclusion based on ideas of social justice and human rights. Second edition.

LESSONS IN INTEGRATION: REALIZING THE PROMISE OF RACIAL DIVERSITY IN AMERICAN SCHOOLS; ED. BY ERICA FRANKENBERG
•    PUBLISHER: UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA PRESS
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: LC214.2.L47 2007
•    $45.00 CLOTH (352 P.)
•    ISBN: 0813926300
•    ISBN-13: 9780813926308
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The essays in this book provide an analysis of what to do and what not to do once classrooms are integrated, and discusses the importance of integrating and how to maximize the benefits of diversity.

PLACE-BASED EDUCATION IN THE GLOBAL AGE: LOCAL DIVERSITY; ED. BY DAVID A. GRUENEWALD
•    PUBLISHER: LAWRENCE ERLBAUM
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: LC239.P527 2007
•    $99.95 CLOTH (377 P.)
•    ISBN: 0805858636
•    ISBN-13: 9780805858631
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These articles explore various ways in which education can embrace opportunities for learning about and taking action in communities. Issues include environmental justice, cultural diversity, educating future teachers in place-based education, etc.

POWER OF COMMUNITY-CENTERED EDUCATION: TEACHING AS A CRAFT OF PLACE
•    AUTHOR: UMPHREY, MICHAEL L., 1952-
•    PUBLISHER: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD EDUCUCATION
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: LC239.U66 2007
•    $55.00 CLOTH (140 P.)
•    ISBN: 1578866502
•    ISBN-13: 9781578866502
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The author argues for relevant ways to connect curriculum with high school students' lives and offers a model of a curriculum based on community.

PUBLIC INTELLECTUALS, RADICAL DEMOCRACY AND SOCIAL MOVEMENTS: A BOOK OF INTERVIEWS; ED. BY CARMEL BORG
•    PUBLISHER: PETER LANG
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: JC423.P8838
•    $31.95 PAPER (214 P.)
•    ISBN: 0820470767
•    ISBN-13: 9780820470764
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Interviews with international intellectuals on ideological issues in education.

SCHOOL CHOICE: THE FINDINGS
•    AUTHOR: WALBERG, HERBERT J., 1937-
•    PUBLISHER: CATO INSTITUTE
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: LB1027.9.W34 2007
•    $14.95 CLOTH (132 P.)
•    ISBN: 193399505X
•    ISBN-13: 9781933995052
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This is a well-researched study of charter schools, vouchers and public versus private effectiveness. The study includes randomized control group samples from all over the U.S. and some examples from other countries.

TALKING, DRAWING, WRITING: LESSONS FOR OUR YOUNGEST WRITERS
•    AUTHOR: HORN, MARTHA, 1956-
•    PUBLISHER: STENHOUSE PUBLISHERS
•    CONTENT LEVEL: PROF
•    LC CLASS: LB1528.H67 2007
•    $24.00 PAPER (252 P.)
•    ISBN: 1571104569
•    ISBN-13: 9781571104564
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A guidebook to helping kids make the leap into writing using formal storytelling sessions and focused sketching sessions. The premise of this book is that talking and drawing can provide children with a natural pathway to writing.

TESTS THAT TEACH: USING STANDARDIZED TESTS TO IMPROVE INSTRUCTION
•    AUTHOR: TANKERSLEY, KAREN, 1952-
•    PUBLISHER: ASSOCIATION FOR SUPERVISION AND CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
•    CONTENT LEVEL: PROF
•    LC CLASS: LB3051.T26 2007
•    $23.95 CLOTH (176 P.)
•    ISBN: 1416605797
•    ISBN-13: 9781416605799
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This guidebook focuses on going beyond teaching rote facts and memorization by sharing instructional techniques for teaching thinking skills, improving student understanding, etc.in order to improve student performance within and beyond testing situations.

THAT WORKSHOP BOOK: NEW SYSTEMS AND STRUCTURES FOR CLASSROOMS THAT READ, WRITE, AND THINK
•    AUTHOR: BENNETT, SAMANTHA.
•    PUBLISHER: HEINEMANN
•    CONTENT LEVEL: PROF
•    LC CLASS: LB1576.B46 2007
•    $24.00 PAPER (222 P.)
•    ISBN: 0325011923
•    ISBN-13: 9780325011929
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Fun and inspiring guidebook shares examples of workshops used with students in grades 1 through 8. Emphasis is on understanding the systems, structures, routines, and rituals of workshopping and on reflective teaching practices.

WHEN SCHOOL REFORM GOES WRONG
•    AUTHOR: NODDINGS, NEL.
•    PUBLISHER: TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS
•    CONTENT LEVEL: ADV-AC
•    LC CLASS: LA217.N63 2007
•    $50.00 CLOTH (93 P.)
•    ISBN: 0807748110
•    ISBN-13: 9780807748114
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A critique of the ideas underlying the No Child Left Behind Act by one of the country's leading educational thinkers.

WINDOWS ON LEARNING: DOCUMENTING YOUNG CHILDREN'S WORK
•    AUTHOR: HELM, JUDY HARRIS.
•    PUBLISHER: TEACHERS COLLEGE PRESS
•    CONTENT LEVEL: PROF
•    LC CLASS: LB1139.35.P8H45 2007
•    $19.95 PAPER (185 P.)
•    ISBN: 0807747866
•    ISBN-13: 9780807747865
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Second edition of excellent guide to project approach and authentic assessment through documentation. Aimed at early childhood teachers, the project approach and documentation can also be used in higher levels of schooling.