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Our original interests in the integration of diversity into the psychology curricu- lum developed along converging paths. As new teachers of psychology, we both discovered that our widely-used textbooks contained little or no scholarship on women or…

The great Russian psychologist Lev Vygotsky writing in the 1930s maintained that scholars in the discipline of psychology were drifting into the polar camps of behaviorism and phenomenology. There was no doubt that Vygotsky clearly saw into the…

This is a book about using phonics to teach reading and spelling to children and adults. It is not an evangelical tract, and does not pretend that phonics are all that we need. English spelling is not an exact match for English speech, and therefore…

At the dawn of the twentieth century, visitors in an urban high school would have noted
that large classrooms of around fifty students were typical. had they asked, they would
have learned the desks were bolted to the floor to promote a quieter and…

For me, this book began more than 10 years ago as a post-J.D.
student in a semester-long capstone course at George Washington
University’s National Law Center. Professor James M. Brown,
who had mastered simulation teaching, taught this…

This book is dedicated to our parents, Roger and Frances Johnson, who discouraged inappropriate competition and taught us to cooperate.

One of the aims of this book is to provide an extended description of the instructional context of Concept-Oriented Reading Instruction (CORI). Previous publications on this instructional framework have appeared in journals devoted to reporting…

This book would not have been possible without the teachers and principals who invited me into their classrooms and schools. These warriors of compassion are unrelenting in their struggle to create educational settings that are responsive to every…

One of the most important factors in creating blended learning solutions
is to recognize where it fits in the broader context of organizational
learning and development. Much of the underpinning concepts of
learning and development have already…