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  • Landscape Painting Inside and Out

    Capture the Vitality of Outdoor Painting in Your Studio with Oils

    by Kevin Macpherson ...
    Paint with passion, purpose and pleasureWhat do you want your landscape painting to say about this place, this moment? How do you use the visual vocabulary - line, shape, value, color, edges - to say it? With this book, your conversation with nature will direct your brush. With an exhilarating, synergistic combination of indoor and outdoor painting, Kevin Macpherson shows you how to create ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The Education Debate

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by David Kirp, Kevin Macpherson ...
    Series series What Everyone Needs To KnowRG
    A compelling overview of the major debates in contemporary education policy. In statehouses, school boards, and communities across the US, battles are raging over the direction of education policy--from the standards that are shaping what students learn to how test results are being used to judge a teacher's performance. These battles are being waged against a backdrop of shifting demographics, ... Read more

    $10.49 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Education Debate

    What Everyone Needs to Know

    by David Kirp, Kevin Macpherson ...
    Narrated by Steve Menasche ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 8 min

    In statehouses, school boards, and communities across the US, battles are raging over the direction of education policy—from the standards that are shaping what students learn to how test results are being used to judge a teacher's performance. What's more, the COVID-19 pandemic is prompting educators to rethink the school's mission in society.In The Education Debate, nationally recognized ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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  • 50 Myths and Lies That Threaten America's Public Schools

    The Real Crisis in Education

    by David C. Berliner, Gene V Glass ...
    Two of the most respected voices in education and a team of young education scholars identify 50 myths and lies that threaten America's public schools. With hard-hitting information and a touch of comic relief, Berliner, Glass, and their Associates separate fact from fiction in this comprehensive look at modern education reform. They explain how the mythical failure of public education has been ... Read more

    $26.59 USD

  • The Flat World and Education

    How America's Commitment to Equity Will Determine Our Future

    by Linda Darling-Hammond ...
    Series series Multicultural Education Series
    Linda Darling-Hammond is the 2023 National Association of State Boards of Education (NASBE) Policy Leader of the YearIn this bestseller and Grawemeyer Award winner, Linda Darling-Hammond offers an eye-opening wake-up call concerning America’s future and vividly illustrates what the United States needs to do in order to build a system of high-achieving and equitable schools that ensures every child ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Common Core State Standards and Race to the Top - An Introduction to Marxism 101

    by Restore Oklahoma Public Education ...
    Complete with supporting links and end notes for our reference material, our research details how the public education system is being used as a vehicle to spread Socialism and Marxism to our youth. Oklahoma is the focus, but rest assured this is happening in every state. We point out the Federally backed programs that are designed to 'fundamentally change' how our children accept and promote ... Read more

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  • The Parent Trap

    How to Stop Overloading Parents and Fix Our Inequality Crisis

    by Nate G. Hilger ...
    How parents have been set up to fail, and why helping them succeed is the key to achieving a fair and prosperous society.Few people realize that raising children is the single largest industry in the United States. Yet this vital work receives little political support, and its primary workers—parents—labor in isolation. If they ask for help, they are made to feel inadequate; there is no ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Hard Questions on Global Educational Change

    Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education

    by Pasi Sahlberg, Jonathan Hasak, Vanessa Rodriguez ...
    This new book, from internationally renowned education scholar Pasi Sahlberg and his colleagues, focuses on some of the most controversial issues in contemporary education reform around the world. The authors devote a chapter to each of these “hard questions”:Does parental choice improve education systems?Is there a future for teacher unions?What is the right answer to the standardized testing ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Other Divide

    by Yanna Krupnikov, John Barry Ryan ...
    There is little doubt that increasing polarization over the last decade has transformed the American political landscape. In The Other Divide, Yanna Krupnikov and John Barry Ryan challenge the nature and extent of that polarization. They find that more than party, Americans are divided by involvement in politics. On one side is a group of Americans who are deeply involved in politics and very ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • The American Education Policy Landscape

    by Jennifer A. Rippner ...
    In today’s complex educational environment, it’s critical for educators to understand the policy landscape. Research-based and grounded in a non-ideological perspective, The American Education Policy Landscape is an essential guide for educators, graduate students, and policymakers alike. This accessible resource unpacks complex concepts and provides a comprehensive overview of early childhood, K ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Community Organization and Social Administration

    Advances, Trends, and Emerging Principles

    by Simon Slavin, Terry Mizrahi, Phd, John D Morrison ...
    Community Organization and Social Administration presents a unique constellation of perspectives from scholars, researchers, and practitioners grounded in macro theories, practice, and education. Drawing upon the knowledge and experiences of social workers and other community-based professionals, this book provides a rich cross-section of models and strategies for those engaged in social change in ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Leave No Child Behind

    Preparing Today's Youth for Tomorrow's World

    by Dr. James Comer, M.D. ...
    The call-to-arms to leave no child behind” in America has become popularly associated with the Bush administration’s education plan-a plan that actually diverges greatly from the ideals of the Children’s Defense Fund, which originated the concept. Here, in a bold and engaging new book, Dr. James Comer reclaims this now-famous exhortation as a tool for positive and substantive change.Far removed ... Read more

    $17.29 USD