experimental methods

"Is school the best way to get an education? Ethan and Emily Tuttle have spent several years in school being graded on the quality of their work. But after hearing an award-winning teacher discuss some problems with schooling and share a vision for how children are best educated, the Tuttle family decides to embark on a new learning adventure. Long-time educator John Taylor Gatto shares ideas with the Tuttle family from his Book "The Underground history of American Education". As they soon learn, education works best when we have the freedom to discover our interests and develop our abilities, rather than being shaped into what somebody else wants."--Back cover.

A fictionalization of a real experiment at a California high school in which a history teacher started a fascist youth movement in an effort to show his students that the Holocaust could indeed happen again.

Discusses how school leaders can plan facilities and design a curriculum with new instructional models and a technology infrastructure based on digital literacy, critical thinking, and problem solving skills.

"This book addresses Common Core State Standard curriculum resources to assist the school librarian in collaborating with classroom teachers."--Amazon.com.

Provides strategies for both elementary and secondary school teachers on reaching learners of different skill levels and abilities in an inclusive classroom.

Offers an assortment of instructional strategies that are designed to help educators address the needs of students from diverse cultural, ethnic, linguistic, and socioeconomic backgrounds.

A guide to leading effective Project Adventure programs that includes ideas for games, activities, warm-ups, closures, and more.

Presents six case studies that provide various perspectives on issues of school reform.

Looks at what students can do to become better evaluators of themselves as readers and writers, and offers advice on how teachers can help them reach that goal.