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Special Education SeriesPeter Knoblock, EditorAdvisory Board: Douglas Biklen,Katherine G. Butler, Dianne Ferguson,William C. Morse, Marleen Pugach,Thomas Skrtic, Frank H. WoodContested Words, Contested Science,72Play and Imagination in Children withAutism, 71Progress Without Punishment, 72Schooling Children with DownSyndrome, 72Whole-School Success and InclusiveEducation, 54Teacher to Teacher PublicationsAnn Cook, Series EditorBack to the Books, 15Inquiry in Action, 27Inquiry Teaching in the Sciences, 27Looking for an Argument?, 27Serving the Community, 27Talk, Talk, Talk, 27Teaching American History, 27Technology, Education—Connections (The TEC Series)Marcia C. Linn, Series EditorAdvisory Board: Robert Bjork,Chris Dede, Carol Lee, Jim Minstrell,Jonathan Osborne (Stanford), MitchResnickThe Computer Clubhouse, 27Creating and Sustaining OnlineProfessional Learning Communities,43Data-Driven School Improvement, 32Designing Coherent Science Education,28Electric Worlds in the Classroom, 33Meaningful Learning Using Technology,33Rethinking Education in the Age ofTechnology, 32Teaching and Learning in Public, 38Using Technology Wisely, 33WISE Science, 27Thinking AboutEducation SeriesJonas F. Soltis, EditorApproaches to Teaching, 57Curriculum and Aims, 57Ethics of Teaching, 57Perspectives on Learning, 57School and Society, 57The Teaching forSocial Justice SeriesWilliam Ayers, Series EditorTherese Quinn, Associate EditorEditorial Board: Hal Adams,Barbara Bowman, Lisa Delpit,Michelle Fine, Maxine Greene,Caroline Heller, Annette Henry,Asa Hilliard, Rashid Khalidi, GloriaLadson-Billings, Charles Payne, MarkPerry, Luis Rodriguez, Jonathan Silin,William WatkinsConstruction Sites, 59Controversies in the Classroom, 59Echoes of Brown, 66Holler If You Hear Me, 40Pledging Allegiance, 58Public Assault on America’s Children,63Putting the Children First, 54Refusing Racism, 59A School of Our Own, 13The Seduction of Common Sense, 59See You When We Get There, 40A Simple Justice, 54Social Studies for Social Justice, 29Spectacular Things Happen Along theWay, 40Teach Freedom, 59Teaching Science for Social Justice, 28Teaching the Personal and the Political,40Walking the Color Line, 45White Architects of Black Education, 67Writing in the Asylum, 63Ways of Knowing in Scienceand Mathematics SeriesRichard Duschl, EditorAdvisory Board: Charles W.Anderson, Raffaella Borasi, NancyBrickhouse, Marvin Druger, EleanorDuckworth, Peter Fensham, WilliamKyle, Roy Pea, Edward Silver, RussellYeanyDesigning Everyday Assessment in theScience Classroom, 31Designing Project-Based Science, 31Free-Choice Science Education, 31How Students (Mis-)UnderstandScience and Mathematics, 31Implementing Standards-basedMathematics Instruction, 28Improving Instruction in Algebra, 28Improving Instruction in Geometry andMeasurement, 28Improving Instruction in RationalNumbers and Proportionality, 28Inside Science Education Reform, 31Investigating Real Data in theClassroom, 28Mathematical Development in YoungChildren, 10Science Education for Everyday Life, 28Standards-Based MathematicsAssessment in School, 28Transforming Middle School ScienceEducation, 31What Children Bring to Light, 31Yearbook in Early ChildhoodEducation SeriesBernard Spodek and OliviaSaracho, EditorsMeeting the Challenge of Linguistic andCultural Diversity, 10Suggestions for SubmittingManuscripts or ProposalsTeachers College Press publishes books in all aspects of education,broadly conceived, from pre-kindergarten to postgraduate. 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