Product Description: In Teaching History Then and Now, Larry Cuban explores the teaching of history in American high schools during the past half-century. Drawing on his early career experience as a high school history educator and his more recent work as a historian of US education policy and practice, Cuban examines how determined reformers have and have not changed the teaching of history...read more

Product Description: A book that explores the problematic connection between education policy and practice while pointing in the direction of a more fruitful relationship, Inside the Black Box of Classroom Practice is a provocative culminating statement from one of America’s most insightful education scholars and leaders...read more

Product Description: Revised, Expanded, and Updated Edition Cutting Through the Hype: The Essential Guide to School Reform offers balanced analyses of 23 currently popular school reform strategies, from teacher performance pay and putting mayors in charge to turnaround schools and data-driven instruction...read more

Product Description: Between Public and Private examines an innovative approach to school district managment that has been adopted by a number of uban disctricts in recent years: a portfolio management model, in which “a central office oversees a portfolio of schools offering diverse organizational and curricular themes, including traditional public schools, private organizations, and charter schools...read more

Product Description: Against the Odds offers an in-depth look at the Mapleton, Colorado, school district’s transformation of two traditional high schools into seven small schools, each enrolling fewer than four hundred students. This even-handed account chronicles both the heartening successes and frequent frustrations of a district-wide embrace of the small school model...read more

Product Description: Former high school teacher, school leader, activist, consultant, and now professor of education James Nehring combines vivid case studies with practical suggestions to describe how the system works to thwart good schools and what educators can do to improve them...read more

''In this timely tale of two institutions, Sondra Cuban and Larry Cuban compare schools and libraries and explain why their development diverged even though they shared a common mission: promoting literacy. Readers will find a wealth of insights into how schools and libraries today can work together to serve local communities.'' -- David Tyack, Professor Emeritus, Stanford University''An inventive book, exhaustively researched. Two separated partners public libraries and public schools are reunited, and in the process, both literacy and community building are reconceptualized. Anyone who has wondered how competition and technology have changed local democracy will find answers here, and reason to act.'' -- Dorothy Shipps, School of Public Affairs, Baruch College, The City University of New YorkWhy have libraries and schools-both public institutions committed to community-based learning-adopted new technologies in dramatically different ways? Exploring the differences of technology use in schools and libraries across the country, the authors describe ways that these two institutions can collaborate to improve teaching and learning while building communities. With a focus on literacy development, they investigate how new technologies are implemented and the lessons that institutions can learn from one another.

In an incisive examination of the cliché that schools should be more businesslike, the author demonstrates why no one has shown that a business model can be successfully applied to education.

This important memoir of professional development in action follows bestselling author Selma Wassermann from her dismal beginnings, struggling for control over her students, to enjoying the kind of teaching in which teacher and students are truly partners in the process. This is the story of learning to respect students, to allow them choices, to engage them in their own self-discoveries, to relinquish control, to make informed diagnoses of individual learning needs and create teaching strategies to address them, and, ultimately, to stand up for what one believes is right and good in the education of children.

Product Description: Providing a strong counter voice to today's standards-based reform, this book features powerful ideas on teacher education, curriculum, and school administration in an accessible lecture style by Larry Cuban, an experienced teacher, administrator, and acclaimed author...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This authoritative and eye-opening volume examines governance changes in six cities during the 1990s, where either mayoral control of schools has occurred or where noneducators have been appointed to lead school districts. Featuring up-close, in-depth case studies of Philadelphia, Baltimore, Chicago, Boston, San Diego, and Seattle, this book explores the reasons why these cities chose to alter their traditional school governance structures and analyzes what happened when the reforms were implemented and whether or not teachers and students performed better because of them...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: With this highly accessible and unique little guide, Larry Cuban offers educators indispensable tools to make sense of the daily complexities they encounter in their work. Teachers face dozens of classroom situations where conflicts occur...read more

Product Description: El sueño de un futuro mejor ha sido motivo central en todo intento de reinventar la educación en el presente. Con este mismo anhelo, David Tyack y Larry Cuban examinan el proceso dinámico de reforma educativa que se ha llevado a cabo en la sociedad estadunidense durante los últimos cien años y buscan con ello establecer las bases de un cambio sustancial en el modelo educativo contemporáneo...read more

Product Description: Edited by John Woodward a nationally acclaimed special educational technologies researcher and Larry Cuban a premier technology educator in the U.S. this book provides critical examination of current research into technology usage for students with disabilities...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: For almost two centuries, Americans expected that their public schools would cultivate the personal, moral, and social development of individual students, create citizens, and bind diverse groups into one nation. Since the 1980s, however, a new generation of school reformers has been intent on using schools to solve the nation’s economic problems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: Examining a century of university history, Larry Cuban tackles the age-old question: what is more important, teaching or research? Using two departments (history and medicine) at Stanford University as a case study, he shows how universities have subordinated teaching to research since 1890...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)