A sober yet encouraging look at how urban public schools have confronted challenges, defied expectations, and continued to improve In The Enduring Promise of America's Great City Schools, Michael Casserly presents a forthright assessment of the past performance and future potential of large urban PreK-12 school districts in the United States. ......
Intersectionality, Equity, and Belonging for Women of Color
An incisive study of the mechanisms reinforcing the underrepresentation of women of color in STEM fields and a call for systemic change to address the imbalance. In a detailed exploration of inclusion in physics, social scientist Maria Ong makes the case for far-reaching higher education reform, noting that despite diversity efforts to recruit ......
A Sustainable and Practical Guide for Emerging Leaders
"This volume combines specific recommendations, observations, and takeaways filled with candor, humor, and uplifting stories for one of education's most challenging roles." -FROM THE FOREWORD An indispensable manual for the most demanding position in higher education, The College President Handbook supports campus leaders in becoming powerful and ......
How SNHU Disrupted Higher Ed and Democratized Online Learning
An extensive exploration of how to successfully improve the higher education industry, which has historically been slow to change In 1932, Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) began as a business and secretarial college, which was family-owned and -operated. It had grown into a nonprofit university by the time Paul LeBlanc became president ......
The Big Lie About Race in America's Schools delivers a collective response to the challenge of racially-charged misinformation, disinformation, and censorship that increasingly permeates and weakens not only US education but also our democracy. In this thought-provoking volume, Royel Johnson and Shaun Harper bring together leading education ......
How Leaders Can Transform College Teaching and Student Success
A comprehensive look at how colleges and universities can improve support for teaching at the institutional level and deliver the transformative learning experiences we promise The Best Place to Learn is a guide for higher education leaders who want to foster a culture of evidence-informed teaching and transformative learning at their ......
A step-by-step guide to developing equitable literacy instruction by adapting curriculum to support diverse learners. In Teaching with Literacy Programs, Patricia A. Edwards, Kristen L. White, Laura J. Hopkins, and Ann M. Castle present a model that allows educators to address educational inequity through the critical and adaptive use of ......
Teaching with a Social, Emotional, and Cultural Lens goes beyond existing social emotional learning programs to introduce a new framework for integrating the development of key skills needed for academic success into daily classroom practice. The framework spells out the competencies, processes, and strategies that effective P-12 educators need ......
Practical guidance for teachers aiming to strategically support the full participation and engagement of minoritized students in STEM education. In Teaching Toward Rightful Presence in Middle School STEM, Edna Tan and Angela Calabrese Barton introduce the rightful presence framework, a multifaceted approach to instruction that enables ......
