Clipping Their Own Wings: The Incompatability Between Latino Culture and American Education
Clipping Their Own Wings addresses one of the most urgent problems in the United States' educational system: Latino underachievement. This work presents a unique solution to this problem--Selective Cultural Adoption (SCA). SCA is method that enables Latinos to retain certain meaningful characteristics of their culture while adopting key aspects of the Anglo-American culture that will help them succeed. Clipping Their Own Wings is a hands-on book that illustrates how teachers and parents can improve the education experience of young Latinos in America.
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget
One of the most highly regarded educational theorists of our time explains that the ideas upon which public education was founded--and which continue to dominate our educational thinking--are wrong. Kieran Egan diagnoses our school problems in a radically different way, shows why our attempts at reform are doomed, and offers promising, novel alternatives
"As we have come to expect from Kieran Egan, this book is full of brilliant insights. He has a great gift for posing fundamental, yet non-obvious, questions in such a way that we find some of our most deeply held assumptions up for grabs."--James Wertsch, Washington University, St.
Getting It Wrong from the Beginning: Our Progressivist Inheritance from Herbert Spencer, John Dewey, and Jean Piaget 
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The Charismatic Leader: The Presentation of Self and the Creation of Educational Settings
This book focuses on three keys to successful educational leadership: (1) know thyself, a foundation for understanding that helps one construct meaning from what has been experienced as well as a sense of what one is becoming; (2) know how to present oneself well in order to achieve personal and organizational goals and objectives; and (3) know how to give leadership to the creation of educational settings.
The Charismatic Leader: The Presentation of Self and the Creation of Educational Settings
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Education and Justice for All: A View from the Back of the Bus by Edmund W. Gordon, ISBN 080773845X
As a renowned humanist, psychologist, and educator, Dr. Gordon is an African American who has spent most of his life in racially integrated sections of society, but he has never completely lost the sense that he is representing those who have been relegated to "the back of the bus." Both scholarly and accessible, this book examines many of the most important issues of educational theory and practice and places them in the context of the social justice imperative. Each section of essays -- including two new essays prepared especially for this book -- is introduced with commentaries in which the author contextualizes and explains the continuing relevance of the issues for today's educator.
Education and Justice for All: A View from the Back of the Bus by Edmund W. Gordon, ISBN 080773845X
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Clipping Their Own Wings: The Incompatability Between Latino Culture and American Education
Clipping Their Own Wings addresses one of the most urgent problems in the United States' educational system: Latino underachievement. This work presents a unique solution to this problem--Selective Cultural Adoption (SCA). SCA is method that enables Latinos to retain certain meaningful characteristics of their culture while adopting key aspects of the Anglo-American culture that will help them succeed. Clipping Their Own Wings is a hands-on book that illustrates how teachers and parents can improve the education experience of young Latinos in America.
Clipping Their Own Wings: The Incompatability Between Latino Culture and American Education
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