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By W. Norton Grubb, et al., published by Routledge NY 1999. The WorldCat page also enables a preview (through Google Books), which makes the table of contents available. From the WorldCat summary, "Based on extensive research on community college teaching to date, this book examines the nature of teaching and the institutional forces that shape it."

PA's comment: "There's an interesting book by Norton Grubb entitled Honored But Invisible based on a thorough qualitative study of pedagogy in a whole bunch of community colleges. His basic point is that while we claim to be "teaching" colleges, there is little support for improving teaching."

by James Paul Gee. From ACM Computers in Entertainment, Vol. 1, No. 1, October 2003. Abstract of article based on Gee's book of the same title. See gee tag for book.

Google Books excerpt of Language, literacy, and learning in educational practice: a reader by Stierer and Maybin, see pp 45-58. This excerpt includes Vygotsky's work on proximal development. Also known as Vykotsky.

Excerpted from On Course, Study Skills: Strategies for Creating Success in College and in Life, by Skip Downing, posted on Google Books.

RO used this case study in class for discussion and to generate a writing assignment, week 3, semester 4.

Book review in The New York Times, Sunday Book Review, Published May 6, 2010. The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education by Diane Ravitch.

The full-text of this book, ed Terry Anderson, published by Athabasca University in 2008, is available for download in its entirety or by chapter, as PDF. Chapters 2 and 4 are bookmarked in our collection.

By Richard Evan Schwartz. Natick, Mass.: A.K. Peters, 2010. Children's book "presents the concepts of prime numbers and factoring in a novel and colorful way." -Richard Evan Schwartz

This is the book that the NPR piece, recommended by R.A., discusses.

By Nicholas Gage, collected in New Directions: Reading, Writing, and Critical Thinking by Peter S. Gardner (via Google Books). Make sure that you are on page 88 for the Gage essay. This material is under copyright, so the full essay is not available here. Check with your local library for access to the full essay.

Novel by Cory Doctrow. Published by Tor Teen, 2008. This book has been published both in print (see WorldCat or Amazon to find a copy) and for free, online (at this link) under Creative Commons license. This is tagged with technology; online texts provide new opportunities for teachers and students.

By Atul Gawande. Published by Metropolitan, 2007. This book, written by a doctor, looks at how doctors try to match their best intentions with best performance.

By Megan Milani, Sternhouse Publishers (Australia), 2009. The book concentrates on teaching early readers (grades K-3), but there might be relevant information for teaching reading at other levels. The full text is available from this page, with an Adobe Flash player.

Edited by Angela T. Ragusa, published by Information Science Reference, 2010. Ragusa is a sociologist at Charles Stuart University (Australia). With contributions from Europe, North America, and the South Pacific, the book "looks at how we communicate and interact in a computerised, connected and inter-connected world..."

By Lisa Delpit, published by W.W. Norton, 1995. The book examines issue of race in schools and cultural clashes in the classroom.

By Mike Rose. New York: Free Press; London: Collier Macmillan (1989) Book Description:"Remedial, illiterate, intellectually deficient--these are the stigmas that define the educational underclass to which Mike Rose once belonged. Here, he tells of his personal journey from a Los Angeles ghetto to a major research university, bringing a vital challenge to those who must shape America's educational agenda.

By Joe Sacco. New York: Metropolitan Books (2009). Story of a massacre in Rafah in 1956, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip.

By Marjane Satrapi. New York: Pantheon, Books (2003). "An intelligent and outspoken only child, Satrapi--the daughter of radical Marxists and the great-granddaughter of Iran's last emperor--bears witness to a childhood uniquely entwined with the history of her country."

By Jonah Lehrer, published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2009. This bookmark points to the Worldcat record, which will direct you to alternate editions, as well as the closest library with a copy of this book.

By Diana D. Woolis and Gail O. Mellow. This page is the abstract for the book chapter on the Emerald website.

By Jane Magruder Watkins and Bernard J. Mohr. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass/Pfeiffer, 2001. GSCC utilizes an AI approach to working together. There is a new edition of this book being published next month. This link goes to the title on Worldcat where you can locate a copy in a library.

By Ken Bain, Harvard University Press, 2004. According to its description, this book is based on a 15-year study and concludes that "it's not what teachers do, it's what they understand." The best teachers know their subjects well, but also know how to motivate and challenge their students. They believe "that teaching matters, and that students can learn."

RA discussed this in the notes for her lesson, week 3, semester 3.