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“julie cocker”

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  • Education Technology and the Failure of American Schools

    by Charles K. Stallard, Julie Cocker ...
    This book looks at the progress of American education in the use of technology since the publication of Stallard and Cocker's last book, The Promise of Technology in Schools: The Next Twenty Years. Fifteen years after its publication, they find little significant difference in the way K-12 schools are using technology to improve student achievement. Education Technology and the Failure of American ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • A New Paradigm for Excellence in American Education

    A challenge to change the way we think about learning and education based on common sense and scientific progress.

    by Charles K. Stallard, Julie E. Cocker ...
    Stallard and Cocker examine why America's schools continue failing to meet the needs of children and society. It explains why the present system cannot be reformed and why a new vision of how children and youth prepare for adulthood must replace it. The process begins with making School Choice a national option. Doing so will create a market for educational services beyond what traditional schools ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

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  • Harnessing Complexity

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    Harnessing Complexity will be indispensable to anyone who wants to better comprehend how people and organizations can adapt effectively in the information age. This book is a step-by-step guide to understanding the processes of variation, interaction, and selection that are at work in all organizations. The authors show how to use their own paradigm of "bottom up" management, the Complex Adaptive ... Read more

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  • Systems Concepts in Action

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    by Bob Williams, Richard Hummelbrunner ...
    Systems Concepts in Action: A Practitioner's Toolkit explores the application of systems ideas to investigate, evaluate, and intervene in complex and messy situations. The text serves as a field guide, with each chapter representing a method for describing and analyzing; learning about; or changing and managing a challenge or set of problems.The book is the first to cover in detail such a wide ... Read more

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  • Rebuilding Students′ Learning Power

    Teaching for Instructional Equity and Cognitive Justice

    by Zaretta L. Hammond ...
    Ensure all your students are ready to tackle rigorous contentTo understand the achievement gaps that persist in our schools despite years of equity initiatives, we must look to the insidious legacy of segregated schools and the deliberate underdevelopment of diverse students’ cognitive abilities. Uprooting this "cognitive redlining" requires we reimagine instruction for our most vulnerable ... Read more

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  • Guiding School Improvement with Action Research

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    by Richard Sagor ...
    Action research, explored in this book, is a seven-step process for improving teaching and learning in classrooms at all levels. Through practical examples, research tools, and easy-to-follow "implementation strategies," Richard Sagor guides readers through the process from start to finish. Learn how to uncover and use the data that already exist in your classrooms and schools to answer ... Read more

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  • Making the Common Core Standards Work

    Using Professional Development to Build World-Class Schools

    by Robert J. Manley, Richard J. Hawkins ...
    Essential reading for school leaders!With the Common Core State Standards adopted by the vast majority of U.S. states, educators face the challenge of translating the standards into successful, positive change within schools. Written for school leaders, this practical guide offers a blueprint for implementing and exceeding the new standards using very targeted professional development.Readers will ... Read more

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  • Organizational Pathology

    by Steven M. Price ...
    Organizational Pathology describes the conditions of 'us at work' in a manner unlike other treatments of organizational life. In this book, our experiences and problems are examines as the product of misfits between our ancestral psychology and our contemporary environments. At issue, is how our capacity to adapt to organizational challenges can become compromised when a relatively stable ... Read more

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  • Tyranny of the Textbook

    An Insider Exposes How Educational Materials Undermine Reforms

    by Beverlee Jobrack ...
    Educational reforms and standards have been a topic of public debate for decades, with the latest go-round being the State Common Core Curriculum Standards. But time and again those reforms have failed, and each set of standards, no matter how new and different, has had little impact on improving student achievement. Why? The textbooks. Textbooks sell based on design and superficial features, not ... Read more

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  • Finding Your Leadership Focus

    What Matters Most for Student Results

    by Douglas B. Reeves ...
    In his new book, author and international keynoter Douglas Reeves addresses a major challenge faced by today’s school leaders: an ever-growing load of programs and initiatives. Reeves contends that program overload not only taxes leadership resources, but actually hurts rather than improves student performance. Drawing on recent research findings, this book shows how leaders can pare down from a ... Read more

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  • Learning Analytics Goes to School

    A Collaborative Approach to Improving Education

    by Andrew Krumm, Barbara Means, Marie Bienkowski ...
    Learning Analytics Goes to School presents a framework for engaging in education research and improving education practice through the use of newly available data sources and analytical approaches. The application of data-intensive research techniques to understanding and improving learning environments has been growing at a rapid pace. In this book, three leading researchers convey lessons from ... Read more

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