The Jossey-Bass education series

Explores how recent changes in children's and parents' roles in the family have impacted the education system and offers teachers advice and strategies for dealing with the effects of those changes.

Presents a discussion of intellectual character as it is nurtured in schools, examines the practices of teachers who promote thinking dispositions and intellectual character development through daily routines, expectations, encouragement, and classroom relationships, and offers advice on how to get started teaching for intellectual character.

Describes the history of the charter school movement; offers examples of existing charter schools, discussing the legislation that has made them possible, and community reaction to their establishment; and presents guidance for charter school developers and operators.

Explains how early intervention, especially during grades four through eight, can help women and minorities develop the science and mathematical skills needed to survive in the current global marketplace.

Discusses the role of principals in modern-day schools, and offers advice to school leaders on how to integrate both managerial and leadership skills into the performance of their job.

Examines the link between school character and school improvement, explaining how principals, superintendents, and policymakers can protect their schools and create better educational systems by building institutional character at the local level.

Gives practical advice to teachers of culturally and ethnically diverse students to help them cultivate their intrinsic desire to learn.

Explains how new teachers expected to enter America's classrooms in the fist decade of the twenty-first century will have to develop a new model for teaching diverse groups of students.

Describes the method of teaching for understanding and explains how teachers can use it to increase their students' ability to develop a level of understanding that will serve them throughout their lives.