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Solving Education’s Problems Effectively: A Guide to Using the Case Method

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Rich in practical information about the history of American education, Solving Education’s Problems Effectively encourages readers to analyze, prioritize, and synthesize historical information by applying it to current situations. Using more than thirty case studies, Giordano suggests solutions to issues that plague educators across the nation-from textbook quality to gender, race, and religion biases. The case studies are accompanied by activities to prompt educato… More >>

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Four Centuries of American Education

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America is now entering its fifth century of educating students. Throughout the first four centuries, the instruction of three essential elements – religion, morality, and knowledge – was the core of the education system that produced some of the world’s greatest leaders in areas from science and government to theology and jurisprudence. In recent decades, however, the secularization of education has become the new American paradigm; and statistics clearly demonstra… More >>

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Effective Education for Learners with Exceptionalities, Volume 15

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In this book, we argue that effective education must facilitate the identification, evaluation, and placement and instructional programming for learners with exceptionalities. Based upon the school improvement and effective education literature and standards-based reform movement, schools must adopt principles of school effectiveness and offer classroom instruction that is based upon a clear assessment of the instructional needs of learners with exceptionalities and… More >>

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