A quick look at what colleagues are saying about our faculty’s recent publications.
Ambitious Science Teaching
Mark Windschitl, Jessica Thompson & Melissa Braaten
“The teaching strategies outlined by the authors will transform your classroom into a place where students explain, argue, and model like real scientists and engineers.” — Tanya Katovich, vice president of Northern Illinois Science Educators and chemistry teacher
Creating Research-Practice Partnerships in Education
William R. Penuel & Daniel J. Gallagher
“A must-have, easy-to-read resource for both researchers and practitioners wanting to launch RPPs, as well as veterans of partnership work.”—Laura Wentworth, director of learning and research practice partnerships at California Education Partners
Journeys of Social Justice: Women of Color Presidents in the Academy
Menah Pratt-Clarke & Johanna B. Maes
“Through this work, we clearly see that women of color can climb to the highest rung; can penetrate the abode ceiling, the bamboo ceiling, and the plantation roofs; can sit in the president’s chair; and can thrive as leaders in the academy.” — Peter Lang Publishing
The Complex and Dynamic Languaging Practices of Emergent Bilinguals
The book “examines the dynamic interactions and complex language ideologies of bilinguals—including pre- and in-service teachers, preK-12 students, and other members of multilingual and multidialectal sociolinguistic communities throughout the United States—as they language fluidly and flexibly and challenge the marginalization of these normative bilingual practices in academic settings and beyond.” — Routledge
Connecting Research and Practice for Educational Improvement: Ethical and Equitable Approaches
Bronwyn Bevan & William R. Penuel
“Case studies illustrate how the humility and collaboration required by research-practice partnerships, combined with scholarly creativity and respect for a variety of expertise, can result in important new scientific insights and genuinely useful resources for classrooms.”—Ruth Neild, director of the Philadelphia Education Research Consortium
Supporting Teachers’ Formative Assessment Practice with Learning Progressions
“This book presents the results of a four-year, National Science Foundation-funded project that engaged nine high school biology teachers at three public high schools in long-term, on-site professional development program centered on a learning progression.”— CRC Press
Teaching for Equity in Complex Times: Negotiating National Standards in a High-Performing Bilingual School
Jamy Stillman & Lauren Anderson
“By revealing the tensions involved in maintaining commitments to both multilingual and multicultural education and to national standards, this book offers welcome guidance on dialogical teaching to socially committed teachers and teacher educators.” — Linda Valli, University of Maryland
IEPs for ELs and Other Diverse Learners
John J. Hoover & James R. Patton
“A major strength for this book is its unique tie to English Learners, while providing a dual focus on IEP writing. The material can be used with any student who has learning difficulties, and the book addresses multiple scenarios that are relatable to the real world of teaching.” — Renee Bernhardt, supervisor for special education, Cherokee County School District, Georgia
Teaching to Change the World — 5th Edition
Jeannie Oakes, Martin Lipton, Lauren Anderson & Jamy Stillman
“Teaching to Change the World makes me think of jazz—it is multivocal, it highlights classroom improvisation, and it is bound together with a deep rhythm of equity, justice, research and democracy.” — Christine Sleeter, professor emerita at California State University, Monterey Bay
Legal Issues in Education: Rights and Responsibilities in U.S. Public Schools Today
Kevin Welner, Robert Kim & Stuart Biegel
“Welner, Kim and Biegel distill in these pages an encyclopedic and comprehensive knowledge of equity issues in education, making their book a must-read for anyone interested in education opportunity or in safeguarding civil rights and civil liberties in public schools today.” — Catherine E. Lhamon, chair of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Twenty-First-Century Jim Crow Schools: The Impact of Charters on Public Education
Raynard Sanders, David Stovall & Terrenda White
“It’s a torch against the darkness, an antidote to cynicism and despair, and a map to move the movement forward. With this little book the forces determined to destroy public education—with mobilized campaigns to disinvest and destabilize, displace and disenfranchise—have met a formidable opponent.” — William Ayers, retired distinguished professor of education at the University of Illinois at Chicago
