American history shall be viewed as factual, not as constructed, shall be viewed as
knowable, teachable, and testable, and shall be defined as the creation of a new nation …

Publisher Summary The question of the role played by experiential differences in
determining variation in cognitive growth has been at the heart of much theorizing in …

First published in 1992, this book presents unique quantitative data on the content coverage
of primary education in a large number of countries since 1920. It demonstrates that these …

In the spring of 2011, 1 had two experiences that cast me into a temporary state of despair.
First, I attended a regular bi-monthly meeting of local museum educators where the entire …

Names: Banks, James A., author. Title: An introduction to multicultural education/James A.
Banks, University of Washington, Seattle. Description: Sixth edition.| Boston: Pearson …

Now available in paperback, the sixth edition of this definitive text provides students a strong
background in the conceptual, theoretical, and philosophical issues in multicultural …

Drawing on remarkably frank, in-depth interviews with 160 successful men in the United
States and France, Michèle Lamont provides a rare and revealing collective portrait of the …

Continuing the case for free voluntary reading set out in the book's 1993 first edition, this
new, updated, and much-looked-for second edition explores new research done on the topic …

A group of 1st-graders who were administered a battery of reading tasks in a previous study
were followed up as 11th graders. Ten years later, they were administered measures of …

This book offers a broad vision for improving science education that is at times historical and
philosophical and also concrete and practical. It discusses several themes including: a …