books by Herbert J. Walberg

books by Herbert J. Walberg

books:

Herbert J. Walberg

School Accountability (Hoover Institution Press Publication, 512.)

Hoover Institution Press, 2002

A group of expert authors from a wide range of perspectives reveal what is known about accountability, what still needs to be learned, what should be done right now, and what should be avoided in devising accountability systems.

Charter School Outcomes

Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007

Sponsored by the National Center on School Choice, a research consortium headed by Vanderbilt University, this volume examines the growth and outcomes of the charter school movement. Starting in 1992-93 when the nation?s first charter school was opened in Minneapolis, the movement has now spread to 40 states and the District of Columbia and by ...

Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students (Issues in ...

Springer, 2007

The fastest growing populations in U.S. schools are minority children and youth from Latino, Black, and Asian-American communities. Multiple economic, family, and social risk factors pose challenges to these students. Not surprisingly, evidence continues to show that these children face an ever-widening achievement gap throughout their school ...

Building Academic Success on Social and Emotional Learning: What Does the Research Say? (Social Emotional ...

Teachers College Press, 2004

It has it all
A one stop shop for valuable research in the area of social and emotional learning. Great book.

School Choice: The Findings

Herbert J. Walberg

Cato Institute, 2007

Short, concise, well-written summary of the evidence
In this book, one of America's most experienced scholars on education gives an objective review of the evidence on school choice. In a slim volume that comes in at just over 100 pages, he surveys and summarizes the evidence. What is shows is: (1) America's public ...

Education and Capitalism: How Overcoming Our Fear of Markets and Economics Can Improve America's Schools ...

Herbert J. Walberg, Joseph L. Bast

Hoover Institution Press, 2003

Excellent
The reason schools are failing is the same reason why everything else is failing in america. It is the gradual departure from capitalism to socialism. This book does a good job at teaching basic economics(although it is not the book I would recommend for this purpose, ...

Handbook on Statewide Systems of Support (PB)

Information Age Publishing, 2008

As subsequent chapters point out, the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) requires states to provide assistance to districts in improving the schools within their purview. Of course, the U.S. Constitution and federal laws leave the control of education largely to the states, and states have long provided support to school districts. In return for ...

Testing Student Learning, Evaluating Teaching Effectiveness

Hoover Institution Press, 2004

A lot of good info about testing and education
This is a well-written book about the role of testing in American education. Several testing experts contributed a variety of chapters about types of testing, when should testing be used, how far to trust testing, and so on. The chapters are well researched and well ...

Nurturing Morality (Issues in Children's and Families' Lives)
Theresa A. Thorkildsen, Herbert J. Walberg

Springer, 2004

Despite often simplistic, black-and-white portrayals of good and evil, children and adolescents face complicated moral issues that can raise more questions than answers. Becoming aware of what constitutes morality is only the first step in determining a course of action, identifying and avoiding problems, and building communities that nurture ...

Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement (PB)

Information Age Publishing, 2007

As suggested by the title, the purpose of this Handbook on Restructuring and Substantial School Improvement is to provide principles for restructuring and substantially improving schools. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, the Center on Innovation & Improvement (CII) engaged leading experts on restructuring and school improvement to ...

School-family Partnerships for Children's Success (Series on Social Emotional Learning)

Teachers College Press, 2005

In this groundbreaking volume, the most influential leaders in the field provide essential information to better understand and improve the nature and quality of school?family partnerships for the benefit of all children. These experts examine the various aspects and effects of parental involvement not only on children?s academic achievement, but ...

Scientific Basis of Educational Productivity (Research in Educational Productivity)
Rena Faye Subotnik (Editor) Herbert J. Walberg

IAP - Information Age Publishing Inc., 2006

A volume in Research in Educational Productivity Series Editor Herbert J. Walberg, University of Illinois at Chicago This volume, however, is not primarily concerned with what students should learn, nor even how they should learn. Rather it concerns how we can discover the best means and conditions for teaching them in school, at home, and ...

Can Unlike Students Learn Together? Grade Retention, Tracking, and Grouping (Research in Educational ...

IAP: Information Age Publishing Inc., 2004

For the first time, this book brings together three controversial topics: homogeneous grouping of students within classrooms by ability or achievement criteria, tracking of students into courses of study by the same criteria, and retention of students in their present grade so that they repeat a year?s work instead of being promoted. The editors ...

Kill the Messenger: The War on Standardized Testing

Richard Phelps

Transaction Publishers, 2005

The General Patton of the Testing Wars
A week doesn't go by, without a mainstream media story on the "horrors" of standardized testing, in which reporters tell of widespread testing error, of how testing is causing students to drop out of school, or of how testing is causing an epidemic of cheating. The ...