Product Description: Increase your knowledge about literacy, develop your skills in planning, facilitating, and assessing student growth, and become a more confident teacher of English and language arts. Combining historical scholarship, discussion prompts, and practical classroom examples to blend past with present, this new resource grounds the discussion of literacy teaching and learning in the first decades of the new century using the language, resources, and policies currently existing in the field...read more

Product Description: John Simmons and Eliza Dresang - two educators who are veterans of the censorship wars - offer the voice of experience to guide you in confronting censorship issues in a variety of educational contexts. School Censorship in the 21st Century focuses on the nature of current censorship; the historical, legal, and social contexts in which it occurs; and the resources available for educators to address increasingly complex censorship challenges - some of which are unique to the digital world...read more

Product Description: The contributors to Language Study in Middle School, High School, and Beyond believe that language should be the central focus for study in the reading and language arts classroom and that gaining mastery over language can be stimulating, enlightening, and enjoyable...read more

Product Description: The purpose of this guide is to help students develop a literary awareness and appreciation for the short story as a genre; and to encourage self-discovery and an increased understanding of one's place in the world.

Product Description: This lavishly illustrated book is the first architectural history of one of Oxford's most famous colleges. The contributors discuss the foundation of the college, the construction of its medieval buildings, its neo-gothic expansion, the work of Nicholas Hawksmoor, and the changes that have occurred in the 18th and 19th centuries...read more