Multicultural and Multilingual Literacy and Language : Contexts and Practices

Fenice B. Boyd
Paperback - $64.95

Within a clear conceptual framework, this book explores ways that teachers, reading specialists, administrators, and teacher educators can provide more effective literacy instruction to K/n-/9 students from diverse ethnic, cultural, and linguistic ba ...

Applying Multicultural and Global Concepts in the Classroom and Beyond

Susan C. Brown
Paperback - $141.95

This uniquely practical book allows pre-service and practicing teachers with even the most limited background knowledge about multicultural and global education, to apply that knowledge in their classrooms, schools, and communities. The introductory ...

Ghost Strasse : Germany's East Trapped Between Past and Present

Simon Burnett
Paperback - $39.95

German unification was expected to be a triumph of the human spirit, of political resourcefulness, and of economic power. Instead, the process that began in late 1989 when the Berlin Wall came down, has turned into an unending chronicle of division r ...

The Yage Letters Redux

William S. Burroughs
Paperback - $23.95

In January 1953, William S. Burroughs began an expedition into the jungles of South America to find "yage," the fabled hallucinogen of the Amazon. From the notebooks he kept and the letters he wrote home to Allen Ginsberg, Burroughs composed a narrat ...

Mediating Languages and Cultures

Dieter Buttjes
Paperback - $107.95

The history of "language teaching" is shot through with methods and approaches to language learning - most recently with "communicative language teaching" - but this book demonstrates that a more differentiated and richer understanding of learning a ...

Forced to Fail : The Paradox of School Desegregation

Stephen J. Caldas
Hardcover - $101.95

Caldas and Bankston provide a critical, dispassionate analysis of why desegregation in the United States has failed to achieve the goal of providing equal educational opportunities for all students. They offer case histories through dozens of example ...

Forced to Fail : The Paradox of School Desegregation

Stephen J. Caldas
Paperback - $50.95

Shows how and why coercive school desegregation in the United States has failed.

Designing and Implementing Two-Way Bilingual Programs : A Step-By-Step Guide for Administrators, Teachers, and Parents

Margarita Calderon
Paperback - $74.95

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""This book is certain to be an indispensable guide to planning and practice in dual language schools. It is practical, down-to-earth, and firmly based in broad experience and research."
"Robert Slavin, Co-Director
Center for Research on t ...

Keepin' It Real : School Success Beyond Black and White

Prudence L. Carter
Paperback - $35.95

How can we help African American and Latino students perform better in the classroom and on exams? In Keepin' It Real: School Success Beyond Black and White, Prudence Carter argues that what is needed is a broader recognition of the unique cultural s ...

Culture Counts : Changing Power Relations in Education

Heather Castillo
Paperback - $68.95

The model for addressing cultural diversity presented in this book is based on an indigenous Kaupapa Maori response to the dominant discourse within New Zealand. It promotes self-determination as guaranteed in the Treaty of Waitangi as a metaphor for ...