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Williamson, Peter, Ed.; Appleman, Deborah, Ed. – Teachers College Press, 2021
This important volume examines how and why increasing numbers of students, disproportionately youth of color, are being taken from our schools and put into our prisons. Williamson and Appleman, along with a collection of scholars, teacher educators, K-12 teachers, an administrator, and an incarcerated student, offer their perspectives on how…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Advocacy, Social Justice, Minority Group Students
Butchart, Ronald E., Ed.; McEwan, Barbara, Ed. – 1998
Some of the modes of classroom control, particularly the democratic, moral, and political perspectives of such management, are explored in this book. The collection of articles has three purposes: (1) revive the debate between educators and communities, in order to rekindle the core ethical issues surrounding school discipline; (2) present studies…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Discipline Policy, Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education
Thompson, Gail L. – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2007
In this book, Gail Thompson asked the students in a low performing school to be candid about their high school experiences. Using this information and relying on data from questionnaires and focus groups, Thompson discovered a huge gap in perception between how teachers and students view their experience of school. The book explores this…
Descriptors: Low Achievement, Questionnaires, Focus Groups, Classroom Techniques
Purkey, William Watson; Novak, John M. – 1996
Invitational education is a general framework for thinking and acting about what is believed to be worthwhile in schools. It centers on five basic principles: (1) people are able, valuable, and responsible, and should be treated accordingly; (2) educating should be a collaborative, cooperative activity; (3) the process is the product in the…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Discipline Policy, Educational Change, Educational Innovation
Evertson, Carolyn M., Ed.; Weinstein, Carol S., Ed. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2006
Classroom management is a topic of enduring concern for teachers, administrators, and the public. It consistently ranks as the first or second most serious educational problem in the eyes of the general public, and beginning teachers consistently rank it as their most pressing concern during their early teaching years. Management problems continue…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Educational Research, Classroom Communication, Critical Theory