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A.D. Edwards and D.P.G. Westgate

The first edition of this book in 1987 quickly achieved wide recognition as a major text on classroom studies and classroom language. In this fully revised and extended second edition, Tony Edwards and David Westgate draw on a wide range of classroom studies to show why recording and analysing the talk of teachers and students has been so prominent in the investigation of educational processes. Their emphasis is on methods of recording, analysing and interpreting talk as evidence and on what researchers - particularly teacher researchers - need to know to use those methods with a clear sense of their limits and possibilities. In this new edition all research evidence and bibliographic material has been revised and updated. The book will continue to be an important text for a new generation of students and researchers in language and linguistics, social science and education studies.

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Glynda Hull

Changing Work, Changing Workers looks at U.S. factories and workplace education programs to see what is expected currently of workers. The studies reported in Hull's book draw their evidence from firsthand, sustained looks at workplaces and workplace education efforts. Many of the chapters represent long-term ethnographic or qualitative research. Others are fine-grained examinations of texts, curricula, or policy. Such perspectives result in portraits that honor the complex nature of work, people, and education.

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Terry Husband

"Recent national achievement data reveal significant outcome disparities between African American boys and other student groups by grade 4. This issue has drawn much attention from teachers, parents, researchers, and policy makers all across the United States of America. African American boys are not homogeneous in nature. Consequently, Read and Succeed: Practices to Support Reading Skills in African American Boys begins by identifying a host of potential factors that contribute to reading disengagement and under-achievement in African American boys in P-5 contexts. This book presents and discusses a multi-strategic framework for teachers, administrators, librarians, and parents to implement collaboratively to combat this issue. Read and Succeed additionally provides valuable and practical resources for teachers, administrators, and other school officials to use to increase reading engagement and achievement in African American boys."-- Provided by publisher.

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Caren Van Slyke and associates

Reviews math, social studies, science, and reading and writing skills, and provides a practice test with explanations for every question.