A call to action that promotes K-12 schools and students as key contributors to climate solutions Laura A. Schifter and Jonathan Klein highlight the many ways in which K-12 schools and students have tremendous potential to advance solutions on environmental issues, and they provide frameworks for enacting change, in Students, Schools, and Our ......
A call for community-based approaches to reducing the barriers that prevent regular attendance in K-12 schools In Rethinking Chronic Absenteeism, Sarah Winchell Lenhoff and Jeremy Singer reframe chronic absenteeism as a symptom of a complex set of factors affecting the student, family, and community rather than simply an accountability metric ......
Teaching in a democracy is challenging and filled with dilemmas that have no easy answers. For example, how do educators meet their responsibilities of teaching civic norms and dispositions while remaining nonpartisan? Democratic Discord in Schools features eight normative cases of complex dilemmas drawn from real events designed to help educators ......
A compassionate examination of a topic of urgent concern in US education In Sanctuary School, Chandler Patton Miranda highlights the many ways that K- 2 schools can provide safe educational spaces and relevant, responsive resources for immigrant students. Miranda prompts educators to think beyond the baseline definition of sanctuary schools as ......
Addressing Education Emergencies Through Integrated Student Supports
In Critical Conditions, Elaine Weiss, Bruce Levine, and Kimberly Sterin outline successful strategies for whole child and whole community support that can help school systems meet broader student needs in times of disruption. They take a deep look at Integrated Student Support (ISS), an approach to education policy and practice aligned with ......
An invigorating work that identifies obstructions to transformative change in higher education and offers paths to break through. In "Whatever It Is, I'm Against It," president emeritus of Macalester College Brian Rosenberg draws on decades of higher education experience to expose the entrenched structures, practices, and cultures that inhibit ......
How Billionaires Created a Culture War and Sold School Vouchers
A deep-dive investigation of education privatization that reveals voucher programs as the faulty products of decades of work by wealthy patrons and influential conservatives
In The Privateers, Josh Cowen lays bare the surprising history of tax-funded school choice programs in the United States and warns ......
Revised and updated to address shifts in the climate of bullying in schools and online, this timely work suggests anti-bullying approaches that are concrete, practical, and grounded in research.
In this deeply insightful work, nationally renowned bullying expert Elizabeth Kandel Englander offers sensible ......
An optimistic yet practical assessment of how postsecondary education can evolve to meet the needs of next-generation learners ?With keen insight, Kathleen deLaski reimagines what higher education might offer and whom it should serve in Who Needs College Anymore? In the wake of declining US university enrollment and widespread crises of ......
