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Leading for Inclusion
How Schools Can Build on
the Strengths of All Learners
Edited by Phyllis Jones, associate professor in the
Department of Special Education at the University
of South Florida, Sarasota (USF); Janice R. Fauske,
professor in Educational Leadership and Policy
Studies, USF; and Judy F. Carr, codirector, Center
for Curriculum Renewal, and a consultant to schools,
districts, state agencies, and other educational
organizations with a focus on leadership development
and coaching.
New
Edition
NEW
“With a concrete focus
on leadership and leadership
issues, the editors
have created a book
that expands the
notion of inclusion
well beyond special
education, offering a
framework or lens for
creating schools that
operate from a position
that views all students in
a strength-based
manner.”
—George Theoharis, Syracuse University
Best
Seller
This important book expands the concept of
inclusion to include students who are English
language learners, students with refugee
status, children who are LGBTQ, children who
live in poverty, and other underrepresented
populations. Employing real-world vignettes
and up-to-date research findings, this handson
resource provides strategies that school
leaders can employ to improve teaching and
learning in their school or classroom for all
students. Contributors offer a wide variety of
perspectives from the fields of early education,
elementary education, special education,
educational leadership, testing and assessment,
social and psychological foundations, and
reading.
Book Features:
• A multidimensional framework for how
school systems can adopt effective
inclusive leadership practices.
• Lessons learned from discrete subgroups
of students who are often marginalized in
schools.
• An exploration of the role of data with
implications for systemic decision-making.
• Research-based practices and assessment
tools for the school and classroom.
• Engaging vignettes from diverse
classrooms and schools.
Contributors: Rebecca Burns • Marie Byrd-
Blake • Thomas Crisp • Jenni Menon Mariano
• J. Lynn McBrien • Tary Wallace • Julia M.
White • G. Pat Wilson
Audience: Administrators, teacher leaders,
teacher educators, and policymakers; courses in
educational leadership, inclusive education, special
education, multicultural education, diversity,
and assessment.
2011/256 pp./PB, $31.95/5258-6/HC, $70/5259-3
Also by These Authors: See Author Index
Achieving Equity
for Latino Students
Expanding the Pathway to Higher
Education Through Public Policy
Frances Contreras, associate professor of higher
education in the area of educational leadership and
policy studies, College of Education, University of
Washington, Seattle
New
Edition
NEW
“This very readable book
combines rigorous scholarship
with clearly stated
policy recommendations.
It should be
read by all who are
interested in understanding
and addressing
one of the most
serious problems of our
times.”
—Jorge Chapa,
University of Illinois at
Urbana Champaign
“Rich in data and social context, Contreras presents
a compelling and comprehensive picture for the
collective need to invest fully in the education of
our Latino youth.”
—James M. Montoya, Vice President, Higher
Education, The College Board
“Offers valuable insights and productive recommendations
for addressing a critically important
topic: how to improve educational equity for
Latinos.”
—Laura Perna, Graduate School of
Education, University of Pennsylvania
Despite their numbers, Latinos continue to
lack full and equal participation in all facets
of American life, including education. This
book provides a critical discussion of the role
that select K–12 educational policies have and
continue to play in failing Latino students. The
author draws upon institutional, national, and
statewide data, as well as interviews with
students, teachers, and college administrators,
to explore the role that public policies play in
educating Latino students. The book concludes
with specific recommendations that aim to
raise achievement, college transition rates, and
success among Latino students from preschool
through college.
Best
Seller
Contents:
1. The Role of the Public Policy Arena in
Educating Latino Students
2. Falling Through the Cracks: Who Transitions
to College and Who Doesn’t
3. Educating Latino Students in an Era of
High-Stakes Testing, Accountability, and
Assessment
4. The Role of Financial Aid, Tuition Policy, and
Affordability in Latino Higher Education
Access
5. Undocumented Latino Students and the
Dream of Pursuing College
6. Anti-Affirmative Action Policies and Latino
Student Access to Public Higher Education
7. The “Sleeping Giant” Is Awake: Realizing
the Potential for Shaping Education Policies
to Raise Latino Student Achievement and
Success
Audience: State and federal policymakers, educational
researchers; courses in urban education,
multicultural education, leadership, policy
and planning, higher education, ethnic studies,
Chicano/Latino studies, sociology.
2011/208 pp./PB, $29.95/5210-4/HC, $64/5211-1
Multicultural Education Series
Americans by Heart
Undocumented Latino Students and
the Promise of Higher Education
William Pérez, associate professor of education,
Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
New
Edition
NEW
“Americans by Heart
gives voice, hope, and
clarity to one of
America’s most invisible
groups—undocumented
students. It is a compelling
and thoughtful analysis
on a much discussed
but little studied topic.”
—William G. Tierney,
Director, Center for
Higher Education Policy
Analysis, University of
Southern California
“In America today a growing caste of youth is
coming of age in the shadows of the law. They
are Americans at heart, but alas, not in the eyes
of the law. Far from paralytic or silenced, they are
fully engaged in a struggle for the autonomy of the
human spirit. As Americans by Heart poignantly
reveals, these youth are fully engaged—with a
fierce optimism and Kantian rational agency—
performing for us all nothing more and nothing
less than what it means to be an American. I
applaud William Pérez for this urgent, important,
and loving book. It is essential reading for all who
worry about threats to our democratic promise.”
—Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco,
Ross University Professor of Globalization
and Education, New York University
“This is a very courageous text that asks us as a
nation to broaden our construction of citizenship
to include the rights of the undocumented in our
midst through policies that simultaneously tear
down barriers and build bridges to higher education
institutions for them. Kudos to William Pérez
for his cogent, stirring analysis of an otherwise
vexing social problem.”
—Angela Valenzuela,
The University of Texas at Austin
Offering a rich in-depth analysis, the author
presents a new framework for educational
policies that recognizes the merit and potential
of undocumented Latino students and links
their situation to larger social and policy issues
of immigration reform and higher education
access.
Audience: Higher education leaders, foundation
officers, policymakers, and researchers; courses
in higher education, immigration studies, politics,
cultural studies, ethnic studies, Chicano/Latino
studies, public policy, sociology of education,
urban education, and economics of education.
2011/208 pp./PB, $32.95/5283-8/HC, $72/5284-5
Multicultural Education Series
Best
Seller
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