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Despite growing evidence that all students will benefit from engaging and challenging instruction, many struggling students continue to experience a circumscribed curriculum that emphasizes low-level skills. Featuring contributions from emerging and well-known researchers, this important volume is about the enactment of high-expectation curricula in everyday practice. Chapters document specific classroom strategies that make a difference in the learning of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds and cultural and linguistic minority communities. While the book focuses on language and literacy instruction, key chapters on math and science also demonstrate high-expectation teaching across the curriculum.Book Features:A broad framework for creating high-expectation curricula in underperforming K–12 schools.Clear illustrations of what alternative literacy practices look like.Powerful examples of rich math and science instruction.Research-based strategies for second language learners, students with disabilities, and struggling readers.An incisive critique of the “deficit-driven” curricula that dominates in underachieving schools and classrooms.Contributors: Richard L. Allington, Subini Annamma, Alison Boardman, Suzanne H. Chapin, Eric DeMeulenaere, Debra Goodman, Sophie Haroutunian-Gordon, Chris Kliewer, Janette Klingner, Hugh Mehan, Anne McGill-Franzen, Catherine O'Connor, Nadeen T. Ruiz, Marty Rutherford, Richard Sohmer, Jennifer Urbach“High-Expectation Curricula features work by some of this generation's leading researchers on classroom talk. But it also provides an accessible entry into a century-long conversation on what works in the education of those students whose socioeconomic and cultural backgrounds have led to educational marginalization, lower achievement and, in instances, systematically engineered failure.” —From the Foreword by Allan Luke, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia“In an age of ever increasing inequality and proliferating equity gaps in school, it is not our children that are broken, but our schools and our relationships in them with our children. High-Expectation Curricula is a virtual field guide on how to fix both.” —James Paul Gee, Mary Lou Fulton Presidential Professor of Literacy Studies, Arizona State University

What types of instructional experiences help K-8 students learn science with understanding? What do science educators, teachers, teacher leaders, science specialists, professional development staff, curriculum designers, and school administrators need to know to create and support such experiences? Ready, Set, Science! guides the way with an account of the groundbreaking and comprehensive synthesis of research into teaching and learning science in kindergarten through eighth grade. Based on the recently released National Research Council report Taking Science to School: Learning and Teaching Science in Grades K-8, this book summarizes a rich body of findings from the learning sciences and builds detailed cases of science educators at work to make the implications of research clear, accessible, and stimulating for a broad range of science educators. Ready, Set, Science! is filled with classroom case studies that bring to life the research findings and help readers to replicate success. Most of these stories are based on real classroom experiences that illustrate the complexities that teachers grapple with every day. They show how teachers work to select and design rigorous and engaging instructional tasks, manage classrooms, orchestrate productive discussions with culturally and linguistically diverse groups of students, and help students make their thinking visible using a variety of representational tools. This book will be an essential resource for science education practitioners and contains information that will be extremely useful to everyone—including parents—directly or indirectly involved in the teaching of science.

Problems for environmental management are taking on a new urgency. This book addresses aspects of environmental management that raise fundamental questions about governmental roles and the relationship of humans to the environment. It examines the interaction of local and national governments and the strengths and weaknesses of co-operative vs. coercive environmental management, through a focus on the management of natural hazards. Leading experts in the field examine new and innovative environmental management and planning programmes with particular focus on North America and Australia. This book offers a new understanding of environmental problems and explores the appropriate policy mix that must be developed for environmental management to strive towards environmental sustainability.