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Berhanu, Girma. (2011 November 19) Academic racism: Lynn's and Kanazawa's ill-considered theory of
racial differences in intelligence. Being principally a review of
Lynn, Richard. (2006) Race Differences in Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis.
Vol. 14 No. 12
Preus, Nicholas. (2010 October 28) Culture and
Pragmatism in Education Theory: An Essay Review of Dietz's
An Awkward Echo: Matthew Arnold and John Dewey.
Vol. 14 No. 11
Apple, Michael W. (2011 October 18) Policy for the Poor and Poor Education Policy: An Essay
Review of Education and Poverty in Affluent Countries. Vol. 14 No. 10
Taber, Keith S. (2011 September 23) A Diverse, If Not Exhaustive, Look at What
Psychology Can Offer to Education:
An Essay Review of the International Handbook of Psychology in Education.
Vol. 14 No. 9
Rothstein, Richard. (2011, September 1) Grading the Education Reformers:
Steven Brill Gives Them Much Too Easy a Ride. An Essay Review of Steven Brill's
Class Warfare. Vol. 14 No. 8
Macrine, Sheila L. (2011, August 16) The War on Youth: An Essay Review
of Henry Giroux's Youth in a Suspect Society: Democracy or Disposability?
Vol. 14 No. 7
Davis, O. L. Jr. (2011 July 18) The NDEA and American Education: Reflections on and
Review of Wayne Urban's
More than Science and Sputnik Vol. 14 No. 6
McGrew, Ken. (2011 May 2) To Bravely Speak:
An Essay Review of Jean Anyon's Marx and Education.
Vol. 14 No. 5
Zimiles, Herbert. (2011 March 25) On Making Children
Smarter: An Essay Review of Richard Nisbett's Intelligence and How to Get It.
Vol. 14 No. 4
Ackerman, Gary L. (2011 March 8) Bridging 21st Century Gaps: An Essay Review of
Mehlenbacher's Technology and Instruction. Vol. 14 No. 3
Spector, Hannah. (2011 February 23)
The Question of Cosmopolitanism: An Essay Review. Vol. 14 No. 2. Review of
Pinar, William. (2009). The Worldliness of a Cosmopolitan Education: Passionate Lives in Public
Service and Todd, Sharon. (2009). Toward an Imperfect Education: Facing Humanity, Rethinking
Cosmopolitanism.
Taber, Keith S. (2011 January 4) Understanding the nature and processes of conceptual change:
An essay review. Review of
Vosniadou, Stella (Ed.) (2008) International Handbook of Research on Conceptual Change.
Vol. 14 No. 1
Danzig, Arnold. (2010 October 27) How Qualitative Research Works: An Essay Review.
Review of Robert E. Stake (2010) Qualitative Research: Studying How Things Work.
Vol. 13 No. 14
Klahr, David (2010 October 13) Coming Up for Air: But is it Oxygen or Phlogiston? A Response
to Taber's Review of Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure? Vol. 13 No. 13
Jenlink, Patrick M. (2010 October 13) Whither Standards in the Professional Project? An
Essay Review of Visions for Teacher Educators. Vol. 13 No. 12
McQuillan, Patrick J. (2010 August 28)
(Most) Everything You Want to Know About District-wide, Small School Reform:
An Essay Review of Against the Odds. Review of Against the Odds: Insights from One
District's Small School Reform. Harvard Education Press. Vol. 13 No. 11
Appelbaum, Peter. (2010 August 3) On Uncertainty, Doubt, Responsibility, and
Perpetual Journeys: An Essay Review of Two Books by Ole Skovsmose. Vol. 13 No. 10
O'Keefe, Lynette. (2010 August 1) Completing College: An Essay Review. Review of
Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America's Public Universities.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. Vol. 13 No. 9
Taber, Keith S. (2010 July 6)
Constructivism and Direct Instruction as Competing Instructional Paradigms: An Essay Review
of Tobias and Duffy's Constructivist Instruction: Success or Failure?
NY: Routledge. Vol. 13 No. 8
Maley, Cory D. (2010 June 2) Anarchism and Education in the Academy: An Essay Review.
Review of Amster, Randall; DeLeon, Abraham; Fernandez, Luis A.; Nocella, Anthony J. & Shannon, Deric.
(Eds.) (2009). Contemporary Anarchist Studies. London: Routledge. Vol. 13 No. 7
Dorn, Sherman. (2010 April 22) The Death and Life of Market-Based reform: An Essay Review. Review of The Death
and Life of the Great American School System by Diane Ravitch. NY: Basic
Books. Vol. 13 No. 6
Horn, Jim. (2010, April 8). Caught Between Hope and Despair: An Essay Review. Review of
Grant, Gerald. (2009). Hope and Despair in the American City: Why There Are No Bad Schools in Raleigh.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Vol. 13 No. 5
Spector, Hannah. (2010, March 4). Critical Assessment of
Popkewitz's Cosmopolitanism and the Age of School Reform:
An Essay Review.
Vol. 13 No. 4
Taber, Keith S. (2010, February 9). Celebrating a successful and practical contribution to the
theory of intelligence: An essay review. Review of
Kaufman, J. C., & Grigorenko, E. L. (Eds.) (2009). The Essential Sternberg:
Essays on Intelligence, Psychology and Education. NY: Springer.
Vol. 13 No. 3
Kubick, Robert J. & Mcloughlin, Caven S. (2010, January 24). Alternatives to Functional Behavior Assessments
as "Educational Autopsies": An Essay Review.
Vol. 13 No. 2
Szecsy, Elsie M. (2010, January 9).
Banks’s International Companion to Multicultural Education: An Essay Review. Review of James A. Banks (Ed.) (2009).
The Routledge International Companion to Multicultural Education. NY: Routledge.
Vol. 13 No. 1
Noltemeyer, Amity & Mcloughlin, Caven S. (2009, November 19)
Evaluating Educational Interventions within an RTI Framework: An Essay Review.
Review of T. Chris Riley-Tillman & Matthew K. Burns (2009) Evaluating Educational Interventions:
Single-Case Design for Measuring Response to Intervention.
Vol. 12 No. 16
Shipps, Dorothy. (2009, October 22). Sticky School Reform or a New Progressive Era? An Essay Review.
Review of Payne, Charles M. (2008). So Much Reform, So Little Change:
The Persistence of Failure in Urban Schools, and
Kerchner, Charles T. ; Menefee-Libey, David J.; Mulfinger, Laura S. & Clayton, Stephanie E. (2008).
Learning from L.A.: Institutional Change in American Public Education.
Vol. 12 No. 15
Calfee, Robert & Stahovich, Thomas (2009, October 8). Galloway's 21st Century Engineer: An Essay Review.
Review of Galloway, Patricia D. (2008) The 21st Century Engineer: A Proposal for Engineering Education Reform.
Vol. 12 No. 14
Malewski, Erik L. (2009, September 22). Gresson's Race and Education: An Essay Review.
Review of Gresson III, Aaron David. (2009). Race & Education. NY: Pater Lang.
Vol. 12 No. 13
Taber, Keith S. (2009, September 14).
Constructivism and the Crisis in U.S. Science Education: An Essay Review.
Review of
Berube, Clair T. (2008). The Unfinished Quest: The Plight of Progressive Science Education in the Age of
Standards.
Vol. 12 No. 12
Mcloughlin, Caven S. & Noltemeyer, Amity. (2009, September 1).
Appraising School Psychology's Past, Present and Future: An Essay Review.
Review of
Fagan, Thomas K. & Wise, Paula Sachs (2007) School Psychology: Past, Present and Future. Vol. 12 No. 11
Kumar, Ashwani. (2009, August 18)
Social Studies in the Postmodern World: An Essay Review. Review of
Segall, Avner; Heilman, Elizabeth E. & Cherryholmes, Cleo H. (Eds.) (2006) Social Studies—The Next Generation:
Re-searching in the Postmodern.
Vol. 12 No. 10
Morris, Scott. (2009, August 4). Literacy as resistance; Resistance as literacy: An essay review.
Review of Wallowitz, Laraine, (2008). Critical Literacy as Resistance:
Teaching Social Justice Across the Secondary Curriculum. New York: Peter Lang Publishing. Vol. 12 No. 9.
Garsdal, Jesper & Ydesen, Christian. (2009, June 15). The debate on
educational and psychological testing in the United States: An essay review and
outsider perspective with some philosophical musings.
Review of Madaus, George; Russell, Michael; and Higgins, Jennifer. (2009).
The Paradoxes of High Stakes Testing and
Phelps, Richard P. (Ed.) (2009) Correcting Fallacies about Educational and
Psychological Testing.
Vol. 12 No. 8.
Ohanian, Susan. (2009, June 5)
Accountability and the Slippery Language of Public Relations:
An Essay Review. Review of
Kowalski & Lasley. Handbook of Data-Based Decision Making in Education.
Vol. 12 No. 7.
Corbett, Michael. (2009, April 27). Opportunity in crisis:
An essay review of Theobald's Education Now.
Vol. 12 No. 6.
Vinson, Kevin D.; Wilson, Melissa B; & Swenson, Crystal. (2009,
April 17). Multiple levels, multiple messages: An essay review of Levstik &
Barton's Researching History Education. Vol. 12 No. 5.
Falk, Thomas M.; Rocha, Sam; & Warnick, Bryan R. (2009, March 24). Social science and its discontents: An essay
review of
Bent Flyvbjerg's Making Social Science Matter Vol. 12 No.4.
Horn, Jim. (2009, March 5). The KULT of KIPP: An essay review.
Review of Mathews, Jay. (2008). Work Hard, Be Nice: How Two Inspired Teachers Created the Most
Promising Schools in America. Vol. 12 No. 3.
Fetler, Mark. (2009, January 31).
Test anxiety: An essay
review of Koretz's Measuring Up. Vol. 12 No. 2 Review of
Koretz, D. (2008). Measuring Up: What Educational Testing Really Tells Us.
Barrera, Douglas. (2009, January 19). Everyone pays the price for inadequate schools:
An essay
review. Vol. 12 No. 1 Review of Belfield Clive R. & Levin, Henry M. (2007). The Price We Pay: Economic and Social
Consequences
of Inadequate Education.
Hudson, Kanna. (2008, December 6). Making community through
educational transformation: An essay review. Vol. 11 No. 9 Review of
Bennett, Alan. (2007). The Uncommon Reader.
Lear, Jonathan. (2008). Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation.
Martin, Jane Roland. (2007). Educational Metamorphoses:
Philosophical Reflections on Identity and Culture.
Suárez-Orozco, Carola, Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco, and Irina Todorova. (2008)
Learning a New Land: Immigrant Students in American Society.
Blumenfeld-Jones, Donald S. (2008, October 15).
Experience, Body, and the Spontaneous Moment:
A Meditation upon Virtuosity and Its Possibilities for All of Us. Vol. 11 No. 8. Review of
Howard, V. A. (2008) Charm and Speed: Virtuosity in the Performing Arts.
NY: Peter Lang.
Rosa, Ricardo D. (2008, October 8).
Savage neoliberalism and subaltern responses: An essay review.
Vol. 11 No. 7. Review of
Borg, Carmel & Mayo, Peter. (2007). Public Intellectuals, Radical
Democracy and Social Movements: A Book of Interviews.
NY: Peter Lang.
Apple, Michael W. (2008, September 17). Raymond Williams and the Roots of
Critical Cultural Studies in Education: An Essay
Review. Vol. 11 No. 6. Review of Smith, Dai. (2008). Raymond Williams: A Warrior's Tale.
Cardigan, Wales: Parthian Books.
Liou, Daniel D. (2008, September 12). Beyond Politics of School Size: An Essay Review.
Vol. 11 No. 5. Review of Conchas, Gilberto Q. & Rodriguez, Louie F. (2008).
Small Schools and Urban Youth
Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press.
Levin, Benjamin. (2008). In Search of a Broader View of Education
Policy: An Essay Review of Glass's Fertilizers, Pills, and Magnetic Strips.
Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing.
Morris, Scott. (2008). Henry GirouxUrgently Necessary and
Necessarily Urgent: An Essay Review. Review of
Giroux, Henry. Against the Terror of Neoliberalism: Politics Beyond
the Age of Greed. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Childress, Amy & Rud, A. G. (2008).
The University at the End of the Last Century:
An Essay Review. Review of
Frank, David John, & Jay Gabler (2006). Reconstructing the
university: Worldwide shifts in academia in the 20th century and
Levine, Donald N. (2006). Powers of the mind: The
reinvention of liberal learning in America.
Scott, Jerrie Cobb. (2008).
War, What is it Good For? An Essay Review. Review of
Openshaw, Roger & Soler, Janet. (Eds.) (2007). Reading
across International Boundaries: History, Policy, and Politics.
Charlotte, NC: Information Age Publishing, Inc.
Margolis, Eric. (2007, November 29).
Teaching John Dewey: An essay review of three books on John Dewey.
Covaleskie, John F. (2007, October 25). The paradoxes of a
liberal democratic education: An essay review.
An essay review of Blacker, David J. (2007). Democracy Stretched Thin: How
Complexity Challenges a Liberal Ideal. Albany, NY: State
University of New York Press.
Cibils, Lilian & Pruyn, Marc. (2007, October 2) Pedagogy for social
justice: An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 11. An essay review of
McLaren, Peter & Jaramillo, Nathalia. (2007)
Pedagogy and praxis in the age of empire:
Towards a new humanism. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Fassbinder, Samuel Day. (2007, October 2)
An expanded definition of "pedagogy": An essay review.
Vol. 10 No. 12. An essay review of
McLaren, Peter & Jaramillo, Nathalia. (2007)
Pedagogy and praxis in the age of empire:
Towards a new humanism. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers.
Morris, Scott. (2007, September 27). The university
and "military metaphysics": An essay review. Vol. 10 No. 10. An essay
review of
Giroux, Henry. (2007). The University in Chains: Confronting the
Military-Industrial-Academic Complex. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
Fetler, Mark. (2007, July 10). NCLB blue: An essay review.
Vol. 10 No. 9. An essay review of
Commission on No Child Left Behind. (2007). Beyond NCLB:
Fulfilling the promise to our nation's children.
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Milner IV, H. Richard. (2010) Start Where You Are, But Don’t Stay There:
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Cambridge, MA: Harvard Education Press.
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University of Maryland College Park
Fallon, Moira, & Brown, Susan (Eds.) (2010) Teaching Inclusively in
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Reviewed by Robyn Sheridan & Saran Donahoo,
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Watkins, Audrey, P. (2009). Sisters of Hope, Looking Back, Stepping Forward:
The Educational Experiences of African-American Women.
New York Peter Lang Publishing, INC.
Reviewed by Ezella McPherson,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Grubb, W. Norton. (2011) Leadership Challenges in High Schools: Multiple Pathways to
Success. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers.
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West Chester University
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Age Publishing.
Reviewed by Connie L. Fulmer,
University of Colorado Denver
Miller, L. C. (2010) Make Me a Story: Teaching Writing Through Digital
Storytelling. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers.
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Queen's University
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NY: Guilford Press.
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NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
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University of Southern Indiana
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Berends, Mark; Cannata, Marisa &
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School Choice and School Improvement. Cambridge, MA: Harvard
Education Press.
Reviewed by Keith West,
Texas A&M University
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University of South Florida
Lems, Kristin; Miller, Leah D. & Soro, Tenena M. (2010)
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Reviewed by Lucy K. Spence,
University of South Carolina
Murnane, Richard J. & John B. Willet. (2010) Methods Matter: Improving Causal
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Reviewed by Gregory Camilli, University of Colorado at Boulder
Harris, Douglas N. (2011) Value-added Measures in Education: What Every
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Reviewed by Clarin Collins &
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Emdin, Christopher. (2010) Urban Science Education for The Hip-Hop Generation:
Essential Tools for the Urban Science Educator and Researcher. Rotterdam,
Netherlands:
Sense Publisher.
Reviewed by Antonio L. Ellis, Howard University
Wiley, Terrence G.; Lee, Jin Sook & Rumberger, Russell W.
(Eds.) (2009) The Education of Language Minority Immigrants in
the United States. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters.
Reviewed by Gisela Ernst-Slavit &
Michele R. Mason,
Washington State University Vancouver
Whitmire, Richard (2011) The Bee Eater: Michelle Rhee Takes
On the Nation's Worst School District. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
Reviewed by Stephanie Robinson,
Walden University
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Kezar, Adrianna (Ed.) (2011) Recognizing and Serving Low Income
Students in Higher Education: An Examination of
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Routledge Taylor & Francis Group.
Reviewed by Marquita O. Rodgers,
Kent State University
Grant, S. G. and Gradwell, Jill M. (Eds.) (2010) Teaching History
with Big Ideas: Cases of Ambitious Teachers. Lanham: Rowman &
Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Reviewed by Carolyn A. Weber,
Indiana University
MacDonald, Elizabeth, & Shirley, Dennis. (2009) The Mindful
Teacher. NY: Teachers College Press.
Reviewed by Marci Johnson &
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Missouri State University
Hess, Frederick M. (2010) The Same Thing Over and Over: How School Reformers
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University of Nebraska at Omaha
Ravitch, Diane. (2010) The Death and Life of the Great American School System:
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University of Pennsylvania
Salomone, Rosemary, C. (2010) True American: Language, Identity, and the
Education of Immigrant Children. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Reviewed by Jennifer Harvey,
University of Texas at Austin
Valdés, Guadalupe; Capitelli, Sara & Alvarez, Laura (2011) Latino Children
Learning English: Steps in the Journey. NY: Teachers College Press.
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George Washington University
Siegel, David (2010) Organizing for Social Partnership: Higher Education in
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Walden University
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Press. Reviewed by William J. Mathis, University of Colorado Boulder
Wells, Amy Stuart ; Holme, Jennifer Jellison; Revilla, Anita
Tijerina; & Atanda, Awo Korantemaa. (2009) Both Sides Now:
The Story of School Desegregation’s Graduates.
Berkeley, CA: University of California Press.
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University of Connecticut
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Growing Up in America: The Power of Race in the Lives of Teens.
Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press.
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Mills College
Salomone, Rosemary, C. (2010) True American: Language,
Identity, and the Education of Immigrant Children. Cambridge,
MA: Harvard University Press.
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University of Texas at Austin
Souto-Manning, Mariana. (2010) Freire, Teaching, and Learning:
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Leach, Debra. (2010) Bringing ABA Into Your Inclusive
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Kidman, Joanna & Stevens, Ken. (Eds.) (2010) Looking Back
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Education. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press.
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Schooling. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Central Washington University
Dawidziak, Joe (2010) Back to Common Sense: Rethinking School Change.
Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Education.
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University of Memphis
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Trouble With Schoolwork. Charlotte, North Carolina.: Information Age
Publishing.
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University of Southern Mississippi
McCarty, Teresa L. (Ed.) (2011) Ethnography and Language Policy. NY:
Routledge.
Reviewed by Jon Reyhner,
Northern Arizona University
Nevarez, Carlos, and Wood, J. Luke. (2010) Community College Leadership and
Administration:
Theory, Practice, and Change. NY: Peter Lang Publishing, Inc.
Reviewed by Marcia Kennard Kiessling,
University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Stairs, A. J. & Donnell, K. A. (Eds.) (2010) Research on Urban Teacher Learning:
Examining Contextual Factors Over Time. Charlotte, North Carolina: Information Age
Publishing, Inc.
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University of Colorado Denver
Pianta, R. C., & Howes, C. (2009) The Promise of Pre-K. Baltimore, MD: Paul H.
Brookes Publishing.
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Georgia Perimeter College
Arends, Richard & Kilcher, Ann. (2010) Teaching for Student Learning:
Becoming an Accomplished Teacher. New York: Routledge.
Reviewed by Amy Spears,
Lindenwood University
Sousa, David A. (2011) How the ELL Brain Learns. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.
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University of Texas at El Paso
Mayer, Janet Grossbach. (2011) As Bad as They Say? Three Decades of
Teaching in the Bronx. NY: Fordham University Press.
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California Department of Education. (2010) Improving Education for English Learners: Research-Based
Approaches. Sacramento, CA: California Department of Education Press.
Reviewed by Nadeen T. Ruiz,
Sacramento State University &
Norm Gold,
Norm Gold Associates
Alridge, Derrick P. (2008) The Educational Thought of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Intellectual History.
New York, New York: Teachers College Press.
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Muskingum University
Lang, James M. (2010) On Course: A Week-by-Week Guide to Your First Semester of College Teaching.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
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Delta State University
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Another. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Reviewed by Sharon Scollard,
Ontario Institute for Studies in Education/
University of Toronto
Trezek, Beverly; Wang, Ye; & Paul, Peter (2010). Reading and Deafness: Research, Theory, and
Practice. Clifton Park, NY: Delmar.
Reviewed by Serena Johnson,
University of North Texas
Welner, Kevin G. (2008) Neovouchers: The Emergence of Tuition Tax Credits
for Private Schooling. NY: Rowman and Littlefield.
Reviewed by Jonny Anomaly,
Duke University
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