Selected Reference Books Moved to Book Stacks

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We are moving things around in the Education Library in order to update the study areas. The Reference Collection on the main floor will be compressed to  fit on the shelves in the north wall, behind the computer stations, and the microfiche reader printer will be on the main floor. The Reference Collection will focus on materials published after 2000.  The older Reference items will be sent to the book stacks, and anyone will be able to check them out for personal interest, or a research project.  Here are a few of the titles we have to offer:

 

Fundamentals of Educational Research, 2nd edition.  Thomas K. Crowl. McGraw Hill, 1996.  Education Library:  LB1028 .C77 1996x

According to the publisher’s review “Excellent writing and excerpts from current research articles enhance this book’s comprehensive look at the fundamental concepts of educational research and facilitate student understanding.”   Some details are out of date, such as how to do an ERIC search on CD Rom.  The basics on considerations in designing research still apply, but the chapter “The cutting edge, using technology in
educational research”  does not.

 

 

 

 

 

Handbook of Literacy and Technology:
Transformations in a Post-Typographic World.  Edited by David Reinking, et.al.  Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 1998. Education Library: LB1050.37. H36 1998.

 

The introduction states, “A printed book about electronic reading and writing is not a contradiction, but a testimony to the fact that we are in the midst of a transformation that is not yet fully consummated.” The authors in 1998 could not have known how far we have come with the World Wide Web, online articles and e-books.   It looks like they hit the mark.  The book is also available as an e-book.

 

 

 

 

Handbook of Research on School Supervision. edited by Gerald R. Firth, Edward F. Pajak. Macmillan, Library Reference, c1998.   Education Library: LB 2806.4 H 36 1998.

 

This book traces its lineage to the Handbook of Research on Teaching, edited by Nathaniel Gage in 1963. Its purpose is to assemble the major scholarship and research of the field in a single volume; identifying the boundaries, concepts, and methods of inquiry in the field of research on school supervision.  As in most research reviews, each chapter offers an historical overview.  These are still useful;  one has to keep the publication date in mind.

 

 

 

 

International Encyclopedia of Teaching and Teacher Education, 2nd edition Edited by Lorin W. Anderson, Pergamon, 1995.  Education Library:  LB 1025.3 I58 1995.

This volume is intended for those who wish to obtain an overview of a specific area of education in a relatively short period of time. Members of this audience include graduate students, university professors working outside of their area of expertise,  or elementary and secondary teachers searching for a body of knowledge to inform, guide and/or justify their teaching practices.   Computerized databases are more extensive and more readily accessed, but the encyclopedia’s
review articles are more selective, and their research summaries are set in aframework decided by distinguished contributors, all experts in their field.  This is their strength, and also the source for their potential weakness.  Examples of entries include:  Teachers as Researchers,by S. Hollingsworth  Class Size, by J.D. Finn.

Cover photo from Amazon.com Click to look inside.

Wallace Wade: Championship Years at Alabama and Duke

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When we think about Alabama national championship  football coaches we think of Nick Saban, Gene Stallings, and of course Bear Bryant. However, we often forget about the first national championship winning coach Wallace Wade. Wallace Wade was the head football coach at Alabama from 1923-1930.  During that time he won three national championships and four Southern Conference championships.  This book, written by Lewis Bowling, provides an inside look at Wade’s life and career as a football coach at the University of Alabama and Duke University.  Wade came to Alabama during a time of poverty and political turmoil.  As Alabama started to win national championships, the Crimson Tide became not only became a source of Alabama pride but to the South.  Wade brought a very clear vision of football to the University of Alabama. His time at Alabama would provide a foundation for the Crimson Tide’s winning tradition. Wade would leave UA to coach at Duke from 1931-1950.  He temporally left Duke to fight in WWII from 1942-1945.  At Duke, Wade would win six Southern Conference championships. The football stadium at Duke is named after him.  If you are interested in learning more about Wallace Wade and early UA football history, then this book is for you.  We have a copy of this book at McLure Library.

Education Library: GV 939 .W2 B68 2006

Review written by Robert Burgess, Education Library Graduate Assistant


Bama After Bear

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This book by Donald Staffo, professor of Health and Physical Education at Stillman College, gives a detailed account of Alabama football coaches after the death of Paul “Bear” Bryant. The filling of Coach Bryant shoes would prove to be a daunting task. No ordinary coach would suffice. Alabama expects their football coaches to win national championships.  The first man that they choose was Ray Perkins.  He seemed a logical choice since he played for Bryant in 1960s along with Joe Namath and Kenny Stabler. Perkins coached the Tide from 1983-1986.  Overall, Perkins did very well with his team.  He improved his team with each year. Perkins is the only head coach at Alabama to lead his team to victory over Notre Dame. He also coached Mike Shula, who would become the head coach at Alabama from 2003-2006. The next coach that the book focuses on is Bill Curry who coached from 1987-1989.   Even though he was hand picked by Ray Perkins, Curry was not a part of the “Alabama Family”.  Many Bama fans were outraged by the selection of Curry, because they viewed him as an outsider.  He also had a losing record with his previous team at Georgia Tech. Curry’s first two years at Alabama were winning seasons, but they were mediocre. In his last season at Alabama, the team went 10-2.  Alabama shared the SEC title for that year with Auburn and Tennessee.  He was even awarded the SEC coach of the year for 1989. However, he lost to Auburn (a team he was never able to beat at any school) and to Miami in the Sugar Bowl.  Under Curry the Crimson Tide was okay, but Bama fans were not satisfied with okay. They wanted championships.   Curry left Alabama for Kentucky because his vision and the vision of fans and boosters did not line up.  The book then goes on to discuss the career that Gene Stallings had at Alabama. This book was published in 1992, so it did not discuss most of Stallings’ time at Alabama including his national championship win.   However, praise is given to Gene Stallings for the things that he brought to Alabama.  There is certainly  a lot of optimism about what Stallings would accomplish at Alabama.  This book is full of interesting facts about the coaches such as Ray Perkins endorsing Frito Lays on the coaches television show instead of Golden Flake, which was Bryant endorsed for twenty five years.  If you are interested in modern Alabama football history and would like to learn more about the coaches at Alabama, then you should check out this book. We have multiple copies of this book at McLure Library.

Education Library:  GV 939.A1 S73 1992x

Review written by Robert Burgess, Education Library Graduate Assistant.

Twelve and Counting: The National Championships of Alabama Football

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This book was published by UA Press and the Paul W. Bryant Museum in 2009. It was written by a variety of different authors who are closely associated with the Crimson Tide such as Mal Moore(current Athletic Director), Gene Stallings (head coach 1990-1996),  Winston Groom (author of the Illustrated History of the Crimson Tide) , and Alan Barra (author of The Last Coach) .  Each author brings their own unique perspective to Alabama football history. This chronicles Alabama  twelve of Alabama’s thirteen national championships.  Each chapter concentrates on a national championship year.  One chapter even concentrates on national championships that the Tide should have won.  Pictures of the team through out the years are included in this book.  One thing that makes this book touching is the dedication to John Mark Stallings who passed away the year that this book was published.   The title of the book is prophetic because in 2009 Alabama won its thirteenth national championship.  If you are looking for a very concise and informative history of the national championship seasons, then you should check this book out at McLure library.

Education Library:  GV 958.A4 T94 2009

Review written by Robert Burgess, Education Library Graduate Assistant.

The Crimson Tide: The Official Illustrated History of Alabama Football

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Winston Groom, UA alumni and author of Forest Gump, does a wonderful job of recording the history of Alabama football from 1892 to present.   This book, originally published in 2000, chronicles the triumphs and tribulations of the Crimson Tide football team.  Each page in this book contains wonderful pictures of the players, posters, cheering crowds, and Big Al.   It also contains stories by players and prominent alumni, schedules, and scores from every season. Many die hard fans will appreciate the statistics that this book offers.  Groom concentrates a lot of his book explaining crucial detail of some of the most significant games in Alabama football team history.    He places emphasis in the coaches and assistant coaches that made this program great.  This book is full of interesting facts such as from 1896-1897 the football team did not play any away games since UA deemed it unprofessional and that the Quad once served as the football practice field.    In 2010, Groom expanded his book to include the “dark days” of Alabama football history to the National Championship of 2009. McLure Library has both the original and the National Championship edition in its collection. Why don’t you come check them out.  This book is the ultimate reference book for Alabama fans!!!

Education Library  GV 958.A4 G76 2010       

Review written by Robert Burgess, Education Library Graduate Assistant.

Dystopian YA Series & Novels

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This blog written by:

Benita Strnad

McLure Education Library

The University of Alabama Libraries

For Summer Reading, and a change of pace, Benita Strnad has compiled a list of popular Young Adult Fiction.  Many of these novels have been made into movies, and offer insight on the interests of YA readers.

One of the hot trends in Young Adult publishing is the dystopian youth novel.  Dystopia is the opposite of utopian and is defined as the idea of a society in a repressive and controlled state, often under the guise of being utopian, as characterized in books like Brave New World and Nineteen Eighty-Four. Dystopian societies feature different kinds of repressive social control systems, various forms of active and passive coercion.  Often they are set in post-apocalyptic worlds.  Ideas and works about dystopian societies often explore the concept of humans abusing technology and humans individually and collectively coping, or not being able to properly cope with technology that has progressed far more rapidly than humanity has been able to evolve. Dystopian societies are often imagined as police states, with those in authority having unlimited power over the citizens.

The dystopian novel has become almost a genre unto itself in the last couple of years due to its incredible popularity in both the adult and young adult trade books market.  It has proven so popular that many of the books are being made into movies, which only serves to feed the frenzy of publications available in the genre.  An example of this type of dystopian novel is “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep” by Phillip K. Dick.  This is the novel on which the movie “Blade Runner” was based and that film might be the most famous in the dystopian movie genre.

What is true for adult books is also true in the Young Adult book market where all things fantasy are incredibly popular at the moment.  However, dystopian novels for young adults are nothing new, and perhaps the most famous of them is “The Giver” by Lois Lowry.  First published in 1993 it went on to win the Newbury medal given by the American Library Association’s division of Association of Library Services to Children. Even with the success of that novel it took some time for the genre to catch on but once it did it has taken off.  Commonly dystopian novels feature dark, mysterious, and disturbing worlds that, like adult novels in the same genre, are post-apocalyptic and where adults are non-existent or are in positions of absolute authority.  These settings serve to present situations and questions to readers for which they have to think about solutions.  The greatest of these questions being “is that the kind of world in which I want to live?  If not how do I change it?”

The current spate of interest in the dystopian young adult novel has been propelled along by the popularity of the “Hunger Games” trilogy written by Suzanne Collins.  This series features sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen, who lives in a post-apocalyptic world in the country of Panem where North America once was.  There is a powerful centralized government that has divided the nation into districts.  Once a year the Hunger Games are held for the entertainment of the populace.  The Games are a televised event in which one boy and one girl are selected by lottery from each district and have to fight to the death.  The author says that the idea for The Hunger Games came from channel surfing on television. On one channel she observed people competing on a reality show and on another she saw footage of the Iraq War. The two blended together and the idea of children fighting each other to the death was formed.  A movie version of the first book in the series is currently being filmed and scheduled for release in the spring of 2012.

If you are looking for some light summer reading that is trendy, hip, and happening, and will help you keep one foot firmly in the youth world, or you want to read something that is not demanding in terms of concentration or time invested, the following list of series and titles might be of interest.  I have included the series name and the location of the titles.  Most of the books are at McLure but we may have an incomplete run of the titles, so I have also included the Tuscaloosa Public Library (TPL) in the listing for your convenience.  If neither library has a copy I would encourage you to Inter-Library Loan the books through your on-line ILL account.  ILL is a free service to faculty and staff and there is generally a fast turn-around time on the ordered materials.  ILL books will need to be picked up at the Gorgas Library Circulation desk on the second floor of Gorgas library, but they can be returned here at McLure.

I have also included alternative versions of the work in the listing.  If it is available in an e-reader version (our library system has Kindle’s available for checking out*) or an audio version.  The UA Libraries does not, as a general rule, have audio versions of works available, but the Tuscaloosa Public Library has a good sized collection.  Audio versions of books are available for check out in many formats.  MP3, iPhone, iPad, or CD are the most common.  Books in these formats can be conveniently listened to in planes, trains, and automobiles.  Listening to recorded books while traveling can make the trip much more pleasant.  Check with TPL about how to make use of these alternative formats.

*The UA libraries system has Kindle’s at Gorgas, Bruno, and Rodgers.  These can be checked out by students, faculty, and staff for two weeks with a one-time renewal.  Be aware that not all Kindle’s have all of the Kindle books loaded.  Title lists are unique to each reader.  Please check the location in the catalog to find out what library has the book loaded onto a Kindle before you go to the library expecting to find it.

If you have any questions about any of these titles don’t hesitate to call us at 348-1508 or e-mail bstrnad@ua.edu .  You can also use the ask-a-librarian button on the libraries web site.

Series first then individual books

Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

1.  Hunger Games – McLure (Print & Kindle at Rodgers) Tuscaloosa Public Library (print and audio)

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Catching Fire – McLure (Print & Kindle at Rodgers & Gorgas)  Tuscaloosa Public Library (print and audio)

 

 

 

 

 

3.  Mockingjay – McLure (Print & Kindle at Rodgers & Gorgas) Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

 

 

Maze Runner Trilogy by James Dashner (this is a hot series right now)

1.  Maze Runner – first in trilogy – Tusaloosa Public Library in both print and audio.

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Scorch Trials – second in trilogy – Tuscaloosa Public Library in both print and audio.

Cover photo from Amazon.com . Click to look inside.

 

Seven Kingdoms Trilogy by Kristin Cashore (There has been talk about this series on Librarything this last month)

1. Graceling – first in the trilogy – McLure (print) and Tuscaloosa Public Library in both print and audio

 

 

 

 

Cover Photo from Amazon.com. Click to look inside.

2.  Fire – second in the series – McLure and Tuscaloosa Public Library in both print and audio

 

 

 

 

Cover photo from Amazon.com.  Click to look inside.

The Giver Trilogy by Lois Lowry

1.  The Giver – McLure (print) Tuscaloosa Public Library (print and audio)

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Gathering Blue – McLure (print) Tuscaloosa Public Library (print and audio)

 

 

 

 

 

3.  Messenger – McLure (print) and Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

 

 

Forest of Hands and Teeth series by Carrie Ryan (Zombie & dystopian story)

1.  Forest of Hands and Teeth – McLure (print) Tuscaloosa Public Library in both print and audio

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Dead-Tossed Waves – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

 

 

3.  Dark and Hallow Places – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

 

Cover photo from Amazon.com.  Click to look inside.

Uglies series by Scott Westerfeld (dystopian)

1.  Uglies – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

2.  Pretties – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

3.  Specials – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

4.  Extras – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

Book of Ember series by Jeanne DuPrau (dystopian)

1.  City of Ember – McLure (print) TPL (print and DVD of the movie version)

 

 

 

 

2.  People of Sparks – McLure (print) TPL (print)

 

 

 

 

3.  Prophet of Yonwood – McLure (print) TPL (print and audio)

 

 

 

 

4.  Diamond of Darkhold – McLure (print) TPL (print and audio)

 

 

 

 

Tripods series by John Christopher (dystopian)  This is an old series, published back in the 1960’s, but still good.

1.  When the Tripods Came – McLure (print) TPL (print)

 

 

 

 

2.  White Mountains – McLure (print) TPL (print)

 

 

 

 

3.  City of Gold and Lead – ILL this one.  Neither of us have it.

 

 

 

 

Cover photo from Amazon.com.  Click to look inside.

4.  Pool of Fire – ILL this one.  Neither of us have it.

 

 

 

 

Cover photo from Amazon.com. Click to look inside.

 

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman (dystopian & steampunk)

1.  Golden Compass – McLure (print) TPL (print and audio) the audio recording of this series is very good.  I listened to them all.

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Subtle Knife – McLure (print) TPL (print and audio).

 

 

 

 

 

3.  Amber Spyglass – McLure (print) TPL (print and audio).

 

 

 

 

 

4.  Once Upon a Time in the North – McLure (print) TPL (print and audio)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Incarceron series by Catherine Fisher

1.  Incarceron – McLure (Print) Tuscaloosa Public Library (print only)

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Sapphique – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print and audio)

 

 

 

 

 

Boneshaker series by Cherie Priest (technically these are steampunk but also dystopian)

1.  Boneshaker – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

 

 

2.  Clementine – ILL this one.  Neither of us have it.

 

 

 

 

 

3.  Dreadnought – Tuscaloosa Public Library

 

 

 

 

 

4.  Ganymede – ILL this one.  Neither of us have it.

 

 

 

 

 

Individual books

Delirium by Lauren Oliver – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print only)

 

 

 

 

 

Ship Breaker (won Printz award) by Paolo Bacigalupi – McLure (print) and Tuscaloosa Public Library (print) – this author also has an adult novel titled “Wind-Up Girl” that has received lots of buzz in the book world.  It has the same dystopian themes.  Rumor has it that there is a sequel to Ship Breaker in the works.

 

 

 

 

 Cover photo from Amazon.com.  Click to look inside.

 

House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer- McLure (print) Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

 

 

 

 

 

The Eye, the Ear, the Arm  by Nancy Farmer – McLure (print) one of the few dystopian dystopian novels to feature minorities and set in post-apocalyptic Africa.

Feed by M. T. Anderson – McLure (print) Tuscaloosa Public Library (print and audio)  the audio version of this book is delightfully entertaining.

China Mieville books – these are adult books.  They aren’t fantasy, sic fi, dystopian, or steam punk, but are a mixture of all three genres.

Perdido Street Station – ILL this one as neither of us have it.

 

 

 

 

 

City and the City – Tuscaloosa Public Library (print)

Embassytown – just published.  TPL should get it soon as this guy is hot right now.

 

 

 

 

Cover photo from Amazon.com. Click to look inside.

African American Women Teachers

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Teacher Biographies – African American

 

 

Memories of a Georgia Teacher

Memories of a Georgia Teacher

Martha Mizell Puckett

Athens : University of Georgia Press, c2002

Education Library   LA 2317 .P83 2002

Memories of a Georgia Teacher chronicles the personal and professional life of a principled, resourceful, and deeply religious woman whose career began at a time when state support for primary education was all but nonexistent. Martha Mizell started teaching in 1913 in a one-room, one-teacher school near the Okefenokee Swamp in southeast Georgia. At the time she was barely fifteen, and her formal schooling amounted to seven years.

Martha Mizell Puckett’s career paralleled the transformation of small, informal community school systems into consolidated, government supported, bureaucratic structures. Through Puckett’s eyes our own are opened–to hard times, certainly, but also to a time of notable closeness and involvement between schools and their communities.

Hands of a Teacher

Hands of a Teacher: The Alfreda Drummond Story.  Alfreda Drummond.

Yorktown, VA : Publishing Connections, 1997

Education Library:  LA2317.D622 A3 1997

Hands of A Teacher: The Alfreda Drummond Story captures the triumphant spirit of a young girl determined to make her childhood dream of becoming a teacher a reality. Beginning with her early years as sharecropper’s daughter, this heartwarming story traces Alfreda Drummond’s 30+ year struggle through text and more than 60 black and white photographs.

Hints on Teaching

Reminiscences on School Life and Hints on Teaching

Reminiscences of school life and hints on teaching / Fanny Jackson Coppin ; introduction by Shelley P. Haley.

New York:  G.K. Hall & Co. An imprint of Simon & Schuster Mcmillan, 1995.

LD7501.P495 C67 1995

This reprint of the 1913 edition, offers a brief summary of her life, and philosophy of teaching.  She was born a slave, in 1837. She worked and furthered her education at the Rhode Island Normal School and graduated from Oberlin College. She went on to become a teacher and principal at the Institute for Colored Youth in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, from 1866 to 1901.

Marva Collins Way

Marva Collin’s Way

Marva Collins and Civia Tamarkin

Los Angeles : J.P. Tarcher ; Boston : Distributed by Houghton Mifflin, c1982

Education Library  LA2317.C2 A35 1982

This book vividly reflects on Mrs. Collins’ love of teaching, her family, and of her students. It describes her stamina and determination in getting kids to believe in themselves and to learn. This is not a how to book, but an inspiring insight of one person and how she did not give up when the odds were against her. Her philosophy is unabashedly Christian; her daily lessons with students show that she uses a multicultural approach which treats the Bible as one Great Book among many. In her classrooms Marva Collins organizes her lessons and her moral principals around a core of Emersonian self-reliance, specifically Getting Out of the Ghetto. While some find her writing style repetitive, she certainly has the knack to inspire.

A Class of Their Own

A class of their own : Black teachers in the segregated South / Adam Fairclough

LC2802.S9 F35 2007

Civil rights historian Adam Fairclough chronicles the odyssey of black teachers in the South from emancipation in 1865 to integration one hundred years later. No book until now has provided us with the full story of what African American teachers tried, achieved, and failed to do in educating the Southern black population over this critical century. Teachers were part of, but also apart from, the larger black population. Often ignored, and occasionally lambasted, by both whites and blacks, teachers were tireless foot soldiers in the long civil rights struggle.

The Dreamkeepers

The dreamkeepers: successful teachers of African American children /

Gloria Ladson-Billings.

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1997

Education Library: LC2717 .L33 2009

The author concentrates on teachers who have been successful at helping African-American children to reach high levels of proficiency by working with the individual strengths of each student and maintaining a rigorous environment in the classroom. Appendices list the specific methodologies these successful educators employ, the historical context of culturally relevant teaching and a list of discussion questions for students and practitioners.

Parents and student achievement

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Tiger Mother

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother

Amy Chua

New York: Penguin Press

Education Library:  HQ759 .C59 2011

The  adage, ‘Educate a man and you have a professional in the work force; educate a woman and you educate a family,’  has its proof in these books.

There has  has been a lot of media coverage about the book Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, by Amy Chua over the weekend of January 15-17, 2011.  Book reviews, NPR, television news interviews have all described and interviewed Dr. Chua’s (a law professor at Yale) hard driving approach in instilling high performance for her two daughters, now ages 14 and 17.

I am presenting some of the academic books at McLure Education Library that relate to the topic of parents and student achievement.  These books are not all about privileged Ivy Leaguers.

 


Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students – 

Susan J. Paik, Herbert J. Walberg, editor; foreword by Edmund W. Gordon.

New York: Springer, 2007

Education Library  LC3731 .N27 2007

This book serves as a valuable professional tool by: Providing effective strategies from experienced scholars and professionals that can be used to improve academic achievement and well-being of minority students. Examining, collectively, three cultural groups in one concise, yet comprehensive book on themes related to diverse families, immigration issues, and teaching and learning. Conceptualizing opportunities and challenges in working with minority children in the context of the federal No Child Left Behind act, related state and local educational policies, and current social trends.

 

Understanding Minority Ethnic Achievement

Understanding Ethnic Minority Achievement: Race, Gender, Class and ‘Success.’

 

Louise Archer and Becky Francis.

London: Routledge  2007.

Education Library  LC3085.G7 A73 2007

This timely and authoritative book, written by British authors from a British point of view builds upon, and contributes to, ongoing debates about levels of achievement among minority ethnic pupils, working class pupils and more generally, the issue of boys’ underachievement.

 

Why Bright Kids get Poor Grades

Why bright kids get poor grades and what you can do about it : a six-step program for parents and teachers

 

Sylvia Rimm.

Scottsdale, AZ : Great Potential Press, c2008.

Education Library  LC4691 .R57 2008

Drawing on both clinical research and years of experience counseling families, Dr. Rimm has developed a ‘Trifocal Model’ to help parents and teachers work together to get students back on track. It is effective for a wide range of students, from preschool through college. This is more ‘how-to than scholarly, but draws on scholarly research and clinical experience.

 

 

Passing the Torch: Does Higher Education for the Disadvantaged Pay off Across the Generations?

Passing the torch : does higher education for the disadvantaged pay off across the generations?

 

Paul Attewell and David E. Lavin ; in collaboration with Thurston Domina and Tania Levey.

New York : Russell Sage Foundation, c2007.

Education Library  LC4069.6 .A87 2007

Not so much a how-to manual, but looks at the advantages of higher education to women and men, and subsequently their children. One chapter ‘How college changes a mother’s parenting and affects her children’s educational outcomes,’ is pertinent, as is the whole sociological profile of the book.

 

What Mothers Say About Special Education

What Mothers Say about Special Education: from the 1960’s to present.

Jan W. Valle.

New York:  Palgrave Macmillan

Education Library:    LC3981 .V24 2009

 

This book documents the experiences of 15 mothers whose children labeled learning disabled attended public schools during the last four decades. Despite the right of parents to participate in educational decision-making, these mothers describe the challenge of exercising that right. In candid and compelling narratives, mothers speak to the language of experts, conflicts in shared decision-making, devaluation of “mother knowledge,” and the influence of race, class, and gender. The constancy of issues suggests that this landmark legislation may, in fact, have engendered minimal changes in the lives of mothers and their children

What are the Youth Media Awards?

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The Midwinter meeting of the American Library Association annually announces the winners of  outstanding books and media for children, sponsored by various committees of the section,  Association of Library Service for Children (ALSC).   This was formerly known as the announcement of the Newbery Medal, for ‘the most outstanding contribution to children’s literature’,  and Caldecott Medal winners for  the most distinguished American picture book for children published in the previous year.   The Awards Ceremony is now known as the Youth Media Awards, because of the addition of awards for other categories of book publishing and media.   The recent ALA meeting was in San Diego, CA, and the announcements made on January 11, 2011.

 

Briefly,  Moon over Manifest,” written by Clare Vanderpool, is the 2011 Newbery Medal winner. The book is published by Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children’s Books, a division of Random House, Inc.   “A Sick Day for Amos McGee,” illustrated by Erin E. Stead, is the 2011 Caldecott Medal winner. The book was written by Philip C. Stead, and is a Neal Porter Book, published by Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishing.  The UA Libraries does not have these books yet.  We do have the Newbery and Caldecott winning books in a special section of the Education School Library area in McLure.  For all the details, go to  http://www.ala.org/ala/newspresscenter/mediapresscenter/presskits/youthmediaawards/alayouthmediaawards.cfm 

 

School Improvement

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Engaging the Disengaged: How Schools Can Help Struggling Students Succeed (Corwin Press) by Dr. Lois Brown Easton Dr. Easton directs the reader to the moral imperative of educating all students, specifically those students needing the most help. They are the “dis” kids: disinterested, disappointed, disenchanted, discredited, disenfranchised. This book describes practices and changes that educators have made to the culture of schools to better serve all learners, especially those who are disengaged. Easton’s book, Engaging the Disengaged, is an outstanding contribution with a potential to influence educational practices.

 

Engaging the disengaged : how schools can help struggling students succeed / Lois Brown Easton.  Thousand Oaks, CA : Corwin Press, c2008.   Education Library:  LB2822.82  .E27 2008