Books written by Allan C. Ornstein

  • Foundations of Education

    PhOtO 14.1 Character education programs are now common in many states and include building a sense of community ... 29Sanford N. McDonnell, “America's Crisis of Character—And What to Do about It,” Education Week (October 08, 2008), p.

  • Looking Into Teaching: An Introduction to American Education

    The greater the number of such discussions , he suggests , the weaker the boundary between school and community.21 Some of his findings , summarized below , are surprising ... It was assumed that teachers with more years of experience ...

  • Class Counts: Education, Inequality, and the Shrinking Middle Class

    Douglas Clement , " Beyond ' Rich ' and ' Poor , ' " The Region ( June 2003 ) , 1316. One percent of the population owned 29 percent of the nation's wealth ... Kevin Phillips , Wealth and Democracy ( New York : Broadway Books , 2002 ) .

  • Wealth vs. Work: How 1% Victimize 99%

    IQ, testing and sorting G. Stanley Hall and E.L. Thorndike, the two most influential psychologists at the turn of the twentieth century, also supported the cult of individual success and the notions that the inequality resulting from ...

  • Secondary and Middle School Teaching Methods

    A well - known system utilized in various social learning situations is termed modeling Models are effective in modifying ... ( New York : Longman , 1989 ) ; Vernon F. Jones and Louise S. Jones , Comprehensive Classroom Management ...

  • An Introduction to the Foundations of Education

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  • Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices

    A variety of in-text features help students learn, comprehend, and apply the material. Important Notice: Media content referenced within the product description or the product text may not be available in the ebook version.

  • Curriculum: Foundations, Principles, and Issues

    The ideal resource for researchers, theoreticians, and practitioners of curriculum; a ready reference for teachers, supervisors, and administrators who participate in curriculum making; and a widely popular text for courses in curriculum ...

  • Foundations of Education

    This text provides comprehensive and substantive coverage of all "foundational" areas—including social, philosophical, historical, political, economic, curricular, and legal—for students who are preparing for a career in teaching and ...

  • An Introduction to the Foundations of Education

    An Introduction to the Foundations of Education

  • Excellence vs. Equality: Can Society Achieve Both Goals?

    As differences in advantage and ability affect the relationships between institutions and the people who comprise them, the book argues that political and social compromise is needed to prevent economic inequality from threatening the well ...

  • Excellence vs. Equality: Can Society Achieve Both Goals?

    As differences in advantage and ability affect the relationships between institutions and the people who comprise them, the book argues that political and social compromise is needed to prevent economic inequality from threatening the well ...

  • Foundations of Education

    Completely up-to-date throughout, this edition also provides the latest information on the common core curriculum, accountability, technology in education, school reform, diversity, legal rulings, recent trends in school funding and teacher ...

  • Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices

    Now in its Sixth Edition, EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES, International Edition is the best-selling and most comprehensive book of its kind.

  • Educational Administration: Concepts and Practices

    EDUCATIONAL ADMINISTRATION: CONCEPTS AND PRACTICES, the best-selling, most comprehensive and respected text on the market, discusses all topics covered by other educational administration texts, and MORE: culture, change, curriculum, human...

  • Strategies for Effective Teaching

    Over 40% revised, this edition includes new material on the learning paradigm, PRAXIS and INTASC criteria, multicultural perspectives, technology and Web updates, artful teaching, authentic assessment, specific classroom management skills, ...

  • Contemporary Issues in Curriculum

    For courses in Curriculum Development (K-12) and Curriculum Development (Elementary) 36 article by diverse leaders in the field provide a variety of opinions and thoughts on curriculum issues This eclectic, balanced approach reflects the ...

  • Contemporary Issues in Curriculum

    Contemporary Issues in Curriculum, 6/e presents an eclectic, balanced approach to the major emergent trends in the field from a diversity of leaders in the field who share their opinions...

  • Contemporary Issues in Curriculum

    The third edition of this issues-oriented collection offers 36 articles by the major thinkers in curriculum study.