Product Description: This book is about the energy, substance, hope, and determination that excellent teachers bring to the rhythm of classrooms every day, year in and year out. Balli offers experiences and important lessons about teaching and classroom life at all grade levels, illuminating the perspective of both teachers and students...read more

Product Description: This volume is comprised of contributions from leading scholars in education and psychology. In part one of the book the authors provide insight into the psychology of change, examining:   What factors work as catalysts for change in environments, institutions and people What factors hinder change When change is deemed beneficial   In the second part of this volume the authors turn their attention to the issue of peace education...read more

Product Description: Drawing on their extensive research, Nichols and Berliner document and categorize the ways that high-stakes testing threatens the purposes and ideals of the American education system. For more than a decade, the debate over high-stakes testing has dominated the field of education...read more

Formerly a SkyLight publicationThis one-of-a-kind handbook presents the results of professional research in an accessible, readable format, featuring teaching strategies and real-life practices that work in today's schools.

Product Description: Co-authored by Robert Bullough and Kerrie Baughman (the teacher who was the subject of Bullough's classic 1989 study, First-Year Teacher), this volume provides readers with a rare opportunity to chart the development and difficulties that Kerrie faced as she became an experienced teacher...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Argues that studies protray schools as bureaucratic, violent, and ineffective, and increased population levels have distorted the statistics (view table of contents)

Product Description: Book by Berliner, David C.

A practicing psychoanalyst discusses the fears, anxieties, fantasies, drives, and problems of men in an attempt to help women understand the sexual psychology of men