- Academic Duty
- Donald Kennedy
- Examining teaching, graduate training, research, and their ethical context in the research university, Donald Kennedy, former President of Stanford University and currently a faculty member, suggests that meaningful reform cannot take place until more rigorous standards of academic responsibility are embraced by both faculty and the administration. With vision and compassion, he offers an important antidote to recent attacks from without that decry the university and the professoriate.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1999
- The Academic Preparation of Secondary School Teachers
- Hardcover
- The Age of the Scholar
- Nathan Pusey
- Hardcover 1963
- The Ambiguity of Play
- Brian Sutton-Smith
- Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us must merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation which teaches us skills and inducts us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess, or fate, deployed in games of chance, or daydreaming, enacted in art? Brian Sutton-Smith, a leading proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it has been proposed, elaborated, and debated in disciplines ranging from biology, psychology, and education to metaphysics, mathematics, and sociology.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2001
- American Higher Education 1945-1970
- Nathan Pusey
- Hardcover 1978
- The Art and Craft of Teaching
- Margaret Morganroth Gullette, Editor
- Good teaching does not come naturally or easily to anyone, even to those who seem to have a gift for it. This concise and lively guide developed from the faculty seminars of the Harvard-Danforth Center for Teaching and Learning contains hundreds of insights into the fine and difficult art of leading students to demand more of themselves, find new ways of solving problems, and awaken unsuspected talents. Filled with useful suggestions for improving teaching skills, The Art and Craft of Teaching offers solutions to problems that every instructor faces and suggests strategies that will enrich the classroom for both beginning and experienced teachers and their students.
- Paperback
- Beyond Bias
- Jean V. Carew
- Sara Lawrence Lightfoot
- Hardcover 1979
- Beyond the Ivory Tower
- Derek Bok
- Derek Bok examines the complex ethical and social issues facing modern universities today, and suggests approaches that will allow the academic institution both to serve society and to continue its primary mission of teaching and research.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter
- Vivian Gussin Paley
- The Boy Who Would Be a Helicopter focuses on the challenge posed by the isolated child to teachers and classmates alike in the unique community of the classroom. It is the dramatic story of Jason--the loner and outsider--and of his ultimate triumph and homecoming into the society of his classmates. As we follow Jason's struggle, we see that the classroom is indeed the crucible within which the young discover themselves and learn to confront new problems in their daily experience.
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1991
- The British Academics
- A. H. Hasley
- M. A. Trow
- Hardcover 1971
- By Design
- Richard J. Light
- Judith D. Singer
- John B. Willett
- Paperback 1990 / Hardcover 1990
- Catholic Schools and the Common Good
- Anthony Bryk
- Valerie Lee
- Peter Holland
- The authors examined a broad range of Catholic schools and found that these schools have an independent effect on achievement, especially in reducing disparities between disadvantaged and privileged students. The Catholic school of today, they show, is informed by a vision, similar to that of John Dewey, of the school as a community committed to democratic education and the common good of all students.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- The Competitive Ethos and Democratic Education
- John G. Nicholls
- Hardcover 1989
- Cultivating Humanity
- Martha C. Nussbaum
- How can higher education today create a community of critical thinkers that transcends the boundaries of class, gender, and nation? Martha Nussbaum, philosopher and classicist, argues that contemporary curricular reform is already producing such "citizens of the world" in its advocacy of diverse forms of cross-cultural studies. She draws on Socrates and the Stoics to establish three core values of liberal education, and then shows these values at work in a variety of schools across the nation.
- Hardcover 1997 / Paperback 1998
- The Early Admissions Game
- with a new chapter
- Christopher Avery
- Andrew Fairbanks
- Richard Zeckhauser
- Based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 applications to fourteen elite colleges and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers, this book details the advantages and pitfalls of applying early as it provides a map for students and parents to navigate the process.
- Paperback 2004
- The Early Admissions Game
- Christopher Avery
- Andrew Fairbanks
- Richard Zeckhauser
- This definitive work--based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 college applications to fourteen elite colleges, and hundreds of interviews with students, counselors, and admissions officers--provides an extraordinarily thorough analysis of early admissions. In clear language it reveals the realities of early applications, how they work and what effects they have. The system, the authors argue, is unfair, and they make recommendations for improvement.
- Hardcover 2003
- Education and Foreign Aid
- Philip H. Coombs
- Hardcover 1965
- Fifteen Thousand Hours
- Rutter
- Paperback
- The Founding of Harvard College
- With a new foreword by Hugh Hawkins
- Samuel Eliot Morison
- Foreword by Hugh Hawkins
- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Samuel Eliot Morison traces the roots of American universities in Europe, providing "a lively contemporary perspective...a realistic picture of the founding of the first American university north of the Rio Grande" [Lewis Gannett, New York Herald Tribune].
- Paperback 1998
- The Founding of Harvard College
- Samuel Eliot Morison
- Hardcover 1935
- Framing Questions, Constructing Answers
- Noel F. McGinn
- Allison Borden
- This workbook is an innovative example of an interactive expert system that simulates the relationship between an education policy maker and an informed consultant. A key lesson in this book shows that these issues are affected by several interrelated and complex factors policy makers must consider when implementing changes to their educational systems. All aspects of basic education systems are covered: finance, teachers, assessment, curriculum, material, buildings, and administration.
- Paperback
- Gnys At Wrk
- Glenda L. Bissex
- Paperback
- Guidance in American Education, Volume 1, Selected Papers 1
- Edward Landy, Editor
- Paul A. Perry, Editor
- Paperback 1964
- Guidance in American Education, Volume 2, Selected Papers 2
- Edward Landy, Editor
- Aurthur M. Kroll, Editor
- Hardcover 1965
- Guidance in American Education, Volume 3, Selected Papers 3
- Edward Landy, Editor
- Aurthur M. Kroll, Editor
- Hardcover 1966
- Higher Learning
- Derek Bok
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback
- Japanese Colonial Education in Taiwan, 1895-1945
- E. Patricia Tsurumi
- Hardcover 1977
- The Kindness of Children
- Vivian Gussin Paley
- Visiting a London nursery school, Vivian Paleyobserves the schoolchildren's reception of another visitor, a handicapped boy named Teddy. A predicament arises, and the children's response offers Paley the purest evidence of kindness she has ever seen. In subsequent encounters, "the Teddy story" draws forth other tales of impulsive goodness from Paley's listeners, and resonates through this book as one story leads to another, illuminating the moral meanings that children may be learning to create among themselves.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2000
- The Learning-Disabled Child
- Sylvia Farnham-Diggory
- Paperback 1992 / Hardcover 1992
- Libraries and Universities
- Paul Buck
- Edited by Edwin E Williams
- Introduction by Howard Mumford Jones
- Hardcover 1964
- The One Best System
- David Tyack
- Paperback
- Places for Learning, Places for Joy
- Theodore R. Sizer
- Hardcover 1973
- The Political Economy of Urban Schools
- Martin C. Katzman
- Hardcover 1971
- The Process of Education, Revised Edition
- Jerome Bruner
- Paperback
- Public Education
- Myron Lieberman
- In this blistering critique of our failing public schools and our fuzzy thinking about how to fix them, Myron Lieberman explains why public education is in terminal decline and tells us what we must do to get American schooling back on track.
- Paperback / Hardcover
- Public Schools in Hard Times
- David Tyack
- Robert Lowe
- Elisabeth Hansot
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- The Quality of Education in Developing Countries
- C. E. Beeby
- Hardcover
- Race and Schooling in the City
- Adam Yarmolinsky, Editor
- Lance Leibman, Editor
- Corinne S. Schelling, Editor
- Hardcover 1981
- The Reading Crisis
- Jeanne S. Chall
- Vicki A. Jacobs
- Luke E. Baldwin
- Hardcover 1990 / Paperback 1991
- Reconstructing American Education
- Michael B. Katz
- Paperback
- Religion and the Public Schools
- Paul A. Freund
- Robert Ulich
- Hardcover 1965
- Religious Education in German Schools
- Ernst Christian Helmreich
- Hardcover 1959
- The Rise of the Student Estate in Britain
- Eric Ashby
- Mary Anderson
- Hardcover
- Run School Run
- Roland Barth
- Paperback / Hardcover
- The Schoolhome
- Jane Martin
- Drawing selectively from reform movements of the past and relating them to the unique needs of today's parents and children, Jane Martin presents a philosophy of education that is responsive to America's changed and changing realities.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1995
- Summing Up
- Richard J. Light
- David B. Pillemer
- How can a scientist or policy analyst summarize and evaluate what is already known about a particular topic? This book offers practical guidance.
- Hardcover 1984 / Paperback
- Teaching Literature
- James Engell, Editor
- David Perkins, Editor
- Hardcover 1988 / Paperback 1988
- Teaching Sex
- Jeffrey P. Moran
- Teaching Sex travels back over the past century to trace the emergence of the "sexual adolescent" in America and the evolution of the schools' efforts to teach sex to this captive pupil. Jeffrey Moran takes us on a fascinating ride through America's sexual mores. We see how the political and moral anxieties of each era found their way into sex education curricula, reflecting the priorities of the elders more than the concerns of the young.
- Hardcover 2000 / Paperback 2002
- Teaching Styles and Pupil Progress
- Neville Bennett
- Hardcover
- Teaching in America
- Gerald Grant
- Christine E. Murray
- Would America's schools be better served if teachers shared more of the authority that professors have long enjoyed? Will a slow revolution be completed that enables schoolteachers to shoulder more responsibility for hiring, mentoring, promoting, and, if necessary, firing their peers? This book explores these questions and describes the evolution of the teaching profession over the last hundred years.The authors conclude by analyzing three equally possible scenarios depicting the role of teachers in 2020.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002
- The Teaching of Reading
- William S. Gray
- Hardcover 1957
- Toward a Theory of Instruction
- Jerome Bruner
- Hardcover 1966 / Paperback
- A Turning Point in Higher Education
- Charles William Eliot
- Edited by Nathan M. Pusey
- Paperback 1969
- Unequal Schools, Unequal Chances
- Fernando Reimers, Editor
- With the greatest income inequality in the world, the nations of the Americas face the challenge of consolidating democratic regimes, improving productivity, and reducing poverty as they enter the twenty-first century. Educational opportunity is central to this threefold challenge. The distinguished contributors to this volume discuss current policies and issues in Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and the United States, as they explore the nature of the relationship among education, poverty, and inequality.
- Paperback 2001
- Wally’s Stories
- Vivian Gussin Paley
- Wally's Stories is Vivian Paley's lively account of her kindergarten classroom, a classroom where children are encouraged to learn by using their fantasies and stories. The book describes the evolution of both teacher and students as they grow to understand each other through this unusual teaching method. The author shows that in the course of creating their own dramatic world, five-year-olds are capable of thought and language far in advance of what they accomplish in traditional classroom exercises.
- Paperback
- Who Will Teach?
- Richard Murnane
- Judith D. Singer
- John B. Willett
- James Kemple
- Randall Olsen
- Hardcover 1991
- You Can't Say You Can't Play
- Vivian Gussin Paley
- In this book, Vivian Paley employs a unique strategy to probe the moral dimensions of the classroom. She departs from her previous work by extending her analysis to children through the fifth grade, all the while weaving remarkable faiy tale into her narrative description. Vivian Paley introduces a new rule--"You can't say you can't play"--to her kindergarten students and solicits the opinions of older children regarding the fairness of such a rule. We hear from those who are rejected as well as from those who do the rejecting.The struggle that ensues presents a great teacher with her greatest challenge and speaks to some of our most deeply held beliefs.
- Hardcover 1992 / Paperback 1993
- Young Children Learning
- Barbara Tizard
- Martin Hughes
- The book describes a research study in which four-year-old girls were tape-recorded talking to their mothers at home and to their teachers at nursery school. The book challenges the widely held belief that parents need to learn from professionals how to educate and bring up their children; above all, it persuades us to value parenting more highly and to have respect for the intellectual capabilities of young minds.
- Hardcover 1985